Software Engineer, Communities

The role

You will own the community portal, API, and ops tooling. You will make directories self-serve and manage the rules for community call connections.

What you will do

• Own the community portal, API, and ops tooling
• Make directories self-serve
• Own the rule that decides whether a community call connects
• Capture each family's school and neighborhood
• Build features that unlock once a community reaches real density
• Handle children's data
• Instrument what you ship

Required qualifications

• 4+ years building and running web services, with real ownership of what you shipped
• Strong TypeScript across the stack
• Built and run an API in production
• Can ship a Next.js front end
• Can design a relational model for membership, permissions, and audit history
• Fluency using AI as a multiplier across prototyping, build, and analysis
• A reliability mindset
• A clear communicator who writes things down
• A collaborative, low-ego approach

Nice to have

• trust-and-safety or permissions systems
• A kids' product where you learned what COPPA asks
• Flutter
• Shopify
• Retool
• curiosity about telephony

About the company

Tin Can is building a safer, simpler way for kids to connect without smartphones. They create screen-free devices and services for families.