Warp

Re-creating the command line to be more useable, humane, and powerful for everyone.

Warp is modernizing the command line experience to make it more intuitive and collaborative for modern developers and teams, turning the terminal into a real platform to enable engineering workflows. Our mission is to elevate developer productivity, and the team is excited to have this opportunity to radically improve a tool that every developer uses and fundamentally change how software development and devops are done.

We care deeply about design and user experience and are trying to improve the design of a tool that traditionally has had a horrible UX. Warp is changing how every software engineer works with the terminal, one of their core tools, which hasn’t been redesigned in decades. We’re looking for outstanding product designers to join our early team to help reimagine how developers get more done; we need to build this product the right way from the start. It needs to be intuitive, seamless, and delightful.

The command line is both incredibly powerful and annoyingly hard to use. It hasn’t been updated since its introduction in the 1970’s, and this stagnation certainly shows in today’s user experience. Even though the terminal is a tool that every developer uses everyday, it has a notoriously steep learning curve: it doesn't work like other tools, nothing in it helps you learn how to use it well, it's very easy to make destructive mistakes…the list goes on. For all these reasons, getting comfortable with the terminal can take quite some time. But for those who do learn how to use it well, they can greatly improve their productivity and workflow — getting much more done in less time.

Our Ethos

The command line is both incredibly powerful and annoyingly hard to use.

Master it and gain super-powers: from controlling your cloud systems, to manipulating local files and programs, writing quick workflows and more...it's a developer's swiss-army knife.

Despite its power, it's a very hard tool to master. It has a notoriously steep learning curve - it doesn't work like other tools, nothing in it helps you learn how to use it well, it's very easy to make destructive mistakes, and so on.

Many developers avoid it for these reasons. But for those who do learn how to use it well, they become much better at development and devops. Mastering the CLI lets you work faster with your existing tools, and increases their power because a keyboard driven, repl-style interface has many advantages over GUIs.

At Warp, our goal is to re-create the command line as a modern app, making a more usable, humane and, ultimately, more powerful CLI for everyone.

Check out this post from our founder Zach Lloyd on why he started Warp.

Join Us

We are a company run by developers, building a core product for all developers.

We are product-first engineers, which means we are constantly focusing on the user-experience, and make all of our engineering choices with the goal of building the best product we can for our users. Warp is fully-remote, with an optional office in New York City.