Software Engineer

The role

You will implement features, fix bugs, and provide engineering support for multiple CEA teams. You will also maintain infrastructure, handle DevOps, and participate in a weekly on-call rotation.

What you will do

• Implement features and fix issues in current products
• Collaborate with other CEA teams to provide value and fill technical gaps
• Ship reliable, maintainable production code
• Address high-priority bugs
• Ensure collection of relevant metrics and analytics data
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation
• Maintain and improve infrastructure, monitoring, deployments, and testing
• Identify and solve high-priority DX problems
• Make cost-effective decisions about technologies and services

Required qualifications

• Solid full-stack engineering experience
• Ability to independently build and maintain a product like an online forum
• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Postgres
• Ability to write appropriate tests for new functionality
• AI fluency using coding agents
• Architectural ownership for Senior level
• Track record of impact for Senior level
• Strategic autonomy for Senior level

Nice to have

• Devops experience provisioning servers and databases
• Prioritization skills
• Product thinking

Benefits

• Private health insurance
• Flexible work hours
• $6,000 annual professional development allowance
• $6,000 mental health support allowance
• Extended parental leave
• Ergonomic equipment
• 25 days of paid vacation or country-specific time off entitlements

Before you apply

• Preference for applicants able to work in time zones between US Eastern Time and CET
• Interview process includes application, screening interview, engineering interview, pair programming task, final interviews, and reference checks

About the company

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems.