Full-Stack Engineer

October 10

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Metaculus

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Artificial Intelligence • Science • Social Impact

Metaculus is a platform that provides trustworthy forecasting and modeling infrastructure for forecasters, decision-makers, and the public. It creates forecasts in key areas such as biosecurity, AI progress, nuclear security, and climate change, aiming to improve research, decision-making, and policy. Metaculus offers forecasting tournaments where participants can predict real-world events and win prizes. It engages in collaborations with non-profits and other organizations to enhance forecasting capabilities and contributes to understanding complex global challenges.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Write pragmatic, testable, performant code that consistently works. • Take full ownership of feature development, from initial discussions with designers and product managers through deployment and impact analysis. • Implement and ship features related to how forecasters enter their predictions, get feedback, and interact with other forecasters, and how these predictions are being used. • Serve new functionality to our partners, ranging from nonprofits to governmental agencies to corporations. • Collaborate with other engineers in technical architecture designs, code reviews, infrastructure and CI/CD maintenance and platform monitoring. • Collaborate with product & design on product roadmaps and feature brainstorms. • Mentor junior engineers and build a cohesive engineering culture with a high standard for the quality of execution.

🎯 Requirements

• Software Engineering Expertise: 4+ years of experience with a strong foundation in software architecture, design patterns, algorithm optimization, and developing scalable software systems focusing on performance. We expect experience in working with NextJS, TypeScript, React, Python, Django. • Clean Coding Habits: Demonstrates attention to detail, prioritizes code readability, and maintains high-quality standards in software development. • Prototyping and Iterative Development: Demonstrated ability in rapid prototyping and iterative development methodologies, with a proven track record of quickly adapting to user feedback and evolving project needs. • Effective Communication in Remote Environments: Excellent communication skills, capable of working efficiently in a fully remote setting, and adept at collaborating with a distributed team. • Passion for the Mission: Genuine interest in contributing to our goals and a shared enthusiasm for tackling complex, global challenges. • Team Collaboration: Proven experience in working as part of a team, with the ability to lead when necessary and mentor junior team members. • Answer all questions on this application.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual salary is $100k - $160k plus equity. • We reimburse employees for health insurance costs, depending on country. In the US, we reimburse up to the legal maximum under a QSEHRA plan. • In the US, we offer a 401k plan for employees. • We provide generous parental leave; at a minimum (though it depends on jurisdiction) 14 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 6 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents. • We encourage our employees to meaningfully engage with and attend technical conferences and community events. • We offer travel opportunities for regular in-person working sessions and team retreats in the US and Europe.