Social News Desk is looking to solve the problem of social media management for news organizations, local governments, and educational institutions by building a simpler, smarter, and more effective platform.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience (Node.js + AWS)
- 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams (as tech lead, manager, or equivalent)
- Significant experience with AI-assisted software development (tools, methods, and research)
- Strong background designing and scaling backend services and APIs
- Experience managing production infrastructure in a serverless or distributed environment
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs (especially social media platforms)
- Familiarity with real-time messaging (socket.io, WebSockets, or other techniques)
Responsibilities
- Lead daily standups and coordinate weekly sprint execution and priorities
- Drive technical design discussions, architecture decisions, and implementation strategies
- Own/lead code reviews and source code standards across multiple repositories
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of clean, scalable, maintainable code
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee production releases and deployment pipelines
- Own uptime, reliability, and observability of production systems
- Monitor and optimize cloud vendor cost and utilization
Other
- Strong communication skills and the ability to align technical execution with business goals
- Retirement benefits plans
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Paid vacation and parental leave
- Fully remote work environment within approved states
