Job Description

PRAIRY - BACKEND ENGINEER (PART-TIME)

Sharing on social media sucks. You have to build a following first and unless you stared in a reality tv show youre going to average 61 followers on sites like Twitter (source).

WHAT IF YOU CAN GO VIRAL ONLINE WITHOUT HAVING ANY FOLLOWERS?

PRAIRY is a Reddit meets Nextdoor app where you can share jokes, news, projects, and ideas with your city. Things you share will be seen by more people based on how many votes you get not by how many followers you have. With the removal of followers and focus on cities, Prairy gives a voice to those typically unheard all while letting us stay connected with whats happening around us.

We're getting 100 beta requests per week with an active Slack community that acts as a waiting room and idea validation. Prairy is backed by the University of Chicago's Polsky Exchange & IHCC's LatinX Incubator.

Were looking for an additional engineer to help us set up new technologies within the app and transition from alpha to beta.

https://www.prairyapp.com/faq

We're a scrappy, bootstrapped startup with a big vision. So we hope to find someone motivated by the vision and technology they get to work with. This is a part-time paid gig until we raise our first round. Equity grants are available. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build and improve APIs, services, and systems across Prairy.
• Help scale our backend architecture.
• Identify, implement, and maintain a cloud messaging system.
• Implement and maintain Amazon S3 for photo storage.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Make recommendations on the development of new features based on time, complexity, and budget.
• Write self-documenting and well-tested code with an emphasis on sustainable development practices.
• Help grow the team by participating in interviews, coaching and mentoring your colleagues, and improving our processes and practices.

REQUIREMENTS

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Kotlin, Spring, Postgres, Amazon S3 and Heroku.
• Experience with building and evolving RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency with mobile app development.
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.
• Experience with social feed crafting and complex mathematics.
• Start-up/entrepreneurial experience with a drive to become a thought leader in your domain.

COMMITMENT:

• Part-time 10 - 20 hours/week.
• Conversion to full time upon the execution of a fundraising event.

BENEFITS

REMOTE

• EST, CDT, MDT, PDT timezones only.
• Strong preference towards Midwest candidates.