Web / Full-Stack Developer

As developer, you will help conceptualise, design, and implement improvements to our current site while paving the way to a mobile app.

Our hybrid between media platform and webtool is intended to be an alternative to noisy social media and the short news cycles of journalism. Our users come from a wide range of professional and social backgrounds, we improve the quality of online debates, make science accessible, and give discussions on complex and controversial topics more substance – through our content and the technical infrastructure we’re creating alike.

In short:

Part-time and/or freelance, remote work possible (te.mais based in Berlin), start as of now, competitive salary, non-profit/vision-oriented organisation, possibility to help fix what’s broken about social media.

Your tasks:

• Maintaining our code base, cloud deployment, and infrastructure.
• Iterating on and fixing bugs in the code base.
• Conceptualising and implementing new features.
• Improving workflows for the editorial team.
• Paving the way to a mobile app.

What we’d expect:

• An interest in media innovation and/or the future of public debate. You want to be at the forefront when it comes to reinventing reception of information and discursive patterns.
• Experience in building complex products/applications. Even better in remote teams.
• 2+ years of backend (optional: and frontend) engineering on digital products.
• Transparent work attitude and attention to detail when it comes to hand-overs.
• Excellent communication skills in English OR German OR Russian.

Backend:

• Must: Python, Django, Postgres (full-text search)
• Nice to have: Sentry, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL)

Frontend:

• Must: HTML, CSS, TypeScript
• Nice to have: Web Components, Github Catalyst, ProseMirror, esbuild

What we’ll offer:

• A competitive salary.
• Work on a non-commercial vision-oriented product.
• High flexibility in terms of work location and working hours.
• Intellectually stimulating and highly agile environment and team.
• Ability to shape a young platform (you are entering at the V1 stage).

Our tech stack:

• Backend: Python, Django, Postgres (full-text search), Sentry, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, Secrets Manager)
• Frontend: HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Web Components, Github Catalyst, ProseMirror, esbuild

How you apply:

• Send us your resume + your portfolio/website tojobs@te.ma.
• Optional: Tell us what excites you about media innovation and/or digital science communication in a free-form text.
• Expect to hear from us within a few days.
• If we want to proceed the application process with you, you can expect an application process in three consecutive stages:
• short interview (15 min),
• an async technical challenge (60 min),
• and a longer technical interview (30 min).

For questions, reach out to Viktar viavv@te.ma.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!