Staff Software Engineer

Job Description: B12's engineering team views software as a craft, but improving the world as the reason to practice it. Our engineers are responsible for prioritizing, conceptualizing, co-designing, building, testing, and engaging users for any concept we are building out. We’re generalists in encouraging each other to experience the full stack, but we’re also aware of each other’s preferences in the stack. For this role in particular, we’re searching for a tenured full-stack engineer who brings strong backend/infrastructure skills (and an interest in using them) to the product. We mentor and teach where we can, both inside and outside of the company, and as a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible not only for your ownership of major projects, but also mentorship of the team members with whom you ship those projects. We value sharing our work with the outside world. Our team has published papers on forming expert flash teams and machine-mediated worker hierarchies. We’ve baked our research into various open source tools in the space of creativity, expertise, and knowledge work. We hope our engineers have more longevity than any one tool we use, but here is a sampling of our current thoughts about technology: We live on Python/Django and TypeScript/React. We store blobs in Amazon’s S3, munch on them in Amazon’s EC2, develop in Docker, and deploy containers to Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk. We believe PostgreSQL should be the first system you consider when thinking abo