Software Engineer

January 25

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FreeWorld

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FreeWorld is a tech-enabled nonprofit organization dedicated to ending generational poverty and reducing recidivism by promoting economic mobility for returning citizens. By offering a supportive community and covering the costs of training, FreeWorld empowers individuals with criminal records to secure employment, achieve financial independence, and maintain a successful, prison-free life. The organization provides resources and education tailored to the unique challenges faced by these individuals, helping them to rebuild their lives and support their families.

11 - 50 employees

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

📚 Education

💰 Grant on 2024-02

📋 Description

• As a Software Engineer (we’re hiring at all levels), you’ll build apps that help returning citizens get living wage trucking jobs, and you’ll modernize a fragmented and highly-manual workforce ecosystem. • You’ll work on small product teams to rapidly ship and iterate, while raising the quality bar with each PR. • We work in Next.js on MySQL, and will increasingly incorporate genAI as a first-class level of abstraction. • Your uncommon user empathy will shine in your highly-accessible and delightful solutions, and your commitment to your craft will ensure our stack stays lean and easy to evolve.

🎯 Requirements

• Technical Experience writing easy-to-read, well-tested, low-resource Typescript • Exposure to, experience with, or deep acumen for evolutionary architecture (e.g. loose coupling, modularity, continuous deployment, and robust test automation) • Track record of good judgement in adopting 3rd party libraries and services • Scars from a few egregious mistakes, inc having taken production down a time or two • Great teammate, over great distances (and Zoom calls) • Pride in craft – good enough is never good enough for you, AND • Scrappy and entrepreneurial – you know how to think big & fail fast • Radically non-judgemental

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work flexibility • Team-centric culture of honesty, vulnerability, & trust! • Awesome Health & Disability Insurance (medical, dental, vision, mental health) • Financial Health: 401k & High-Yield Savings Account • Employee Development (Quarterly Wellness Stipend, Paid Professional Development, and more) • Incredible Work-Life Balance! (Unlimited PTO, 14+ paid holidays, & paid parental leave)