Software Engineer
About Icarus Lived
We are a 24-person team building a belief network for social good. We believe that:
existing social media is “thin” — it is great for banter, but terrible for substantive communication;
thin platforms are causing enormous frustration, but users have nowhere else online to go;
no one will be surprised in 5 years when intelligent platforms have usurped thin social media; and
there is a “dam ready to burst” of people who want to express themselves intelligently on social media, but are waiting for a platform with substance.
Learn More
Explainer video: https://ic-ar.us/video
Overview deck: https://ic-ar.us/overview
Clickable design demo: https://ic-ar.us/demo
MVP app: by invitation
Email: [email protected]
Our Culture
Calm. Measured. Open. We believe ideas that make sense, form a consensus, and then take action to make a positive impact on the world. Areas such as climate change, gun violence, equal rights, voting, wildlife preservation, health care, and more entertaining subjects like sports and storytelling.
Building an In-House Engineering Team
We are transitioning from an outside software development agency who has helped us iterate through our MVP to a three-to-five-person, in-house software team based in New York, NY. We are looking for experienced software and QA engineers who align with our mission and cultural values, and who want to build a mass-market consumer product.
Location
New York, NY
Tech Stack
Notifications: Mailgun
Web Front-end: React, Yarn, Vue, Bootstrap
Web Application: Laravel / October CMS, Redis, LAMP
AWS Infrastructure: EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Search, Load Balancer, Certificate Service
Requirements
Work with other members of the engineering, product, and design teams to shape our software as we transition from MVP to v1.
Help us scale to hundreds of millions of users over the coming years by implementing elegant solutions to remove bottlenecks, reduce technical debt, and help others integrate with our platform.
Be a proponent of building the highest quality software with goals of 99.999% uptime, test-driven development, continuous integration and delivery, and architectural excellence.
Push the organization to be “better”, meaning improvements to efficiency, velocity, and organizational effectiveness.
Attract other quality development team members who are self-sufficient and work well in a small team environment.
Experience writing and deploying code in agile environments with our technology stack.
Bonus points for experience with React Native.
Computer Science degree with 3+ years of professional software development experience.
Compensation
- Highly competitive base salary and performance bonus
- Equity
- Health care
- Family paid leave
Icarus Lived is an equal opportunity employer.