Software Engineer, Events - Remote

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to join a growing team building products that reach hundreds of thousands of people thinking about how to do the most good. This position reports to the incoming Head of Digital Product. You will collaborate closely with our Senior Software Engineer, Senior Product Designer, and EA Forum Product Lead, along with other teams at CEA as needed.
We’re aiming to hire a mid-level software engineer, but we would consider hiring at the senior level for the right candidate.
We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks.
We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund raised almost as much as the previous three years combined.
Our team currently consists of Ollie Etherington Senior Software Engineer, Agnes Stenlund Product Designer, and Toby Tremlett EA Forum Product Lead, and we plan to continue expanding in 2027.
CEA has ambitious goals for 2027 and beyond, and we need more software engineering capacity in order to reach those goals.
js, React, Next.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch. Our sites are hosted on Render, Vercel, and Cloudflare, and our analytics data is stored and processed in PostHog.
js – if you join, you can help us establish the next evolution of key EA community infrastructure, which we hope will set stronger foundations for many years to come.

• We’ve recently hired product managers for the EA Opportunities Board and our courses who will continue driving these projects forwards – some of the changes they’re planning will require engineering.
• EA Funds is now part of CEA, and has not had dedicated technical capacity in a long time. In 2026, we’ve massively overhauled our analytics and data infrastructure, and we’d be excited for a data-minded engineer to continue pushing this project forward. Having a strong data foundation will be crucial for CEA’s ability to find product-market-impact fit to scale up our products.
• CEA is expecting to lean into virtual products in 2027, including running at least one major virtual event.

Ensure that we’re collecting relevant metrics and analytics data, and that it can be used by non-technical members of staff to inform decision-making.
– Share our weekly on-call rotation with our Senior Software Engineer, Ollie, triaging incoming requests and responding to urgent issues.
Help maintain and improve infrastructure, monitoring, deployments, and testing.
– We’re hiring this role at either the Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer level. The core expectations below apply to both, with additional expectations for the senior level noted at the end.
Solid full-stack engineering experience. You can independently build and maintain a product like an online forum (frontend, backend, databases, devops, and 3rd-party integrations). As a baseline, we expect you to be familiar with TypeScript, React, and Postgres, and that you can pick up our other technologies quickly. You write appropriate tests for new functionality.

• You gather data, evaluate your work, and iterate quickly. You’re excited to explore new opportunities to use software to increase CEA’s impact.
• You notice particularly good or bad user experiences and reflect on what makes them so, and you can combine these intuitions with targeted analytics data in order to tangibly improve products.

To be considered for the Senior level of this role, we require a candidate to meet the following criteria:
– You can take technical ambiguity and turn it into a credible plan, including translating broad goals into quarterly OKRs and contributing to technical direction at the team level.
We can imagine being excited about candidates with a wide range of different skills and experience, and encourage you to apply even if you aren’t sure that you’re fully qualified.

OTHER INFORMATION

• This is a full-time, remote position. We have an office in Oxford, UK, that you would have access to.
• Reports to: Incoming Head of Digital Product (Joris Pijpers, Chief of Staff, Community Growth in the interim)
• Compensation
• Software Engineer
• Senior Software Engineer
• Benefits include private health insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 25 days of paid vacation or country-specific time off entitlements, whichever is greater.
• There are likely 2-4 trips annually to attend team retreats and other events, including international trips.

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