about 222:
We’re an early stage startup working on building the future of social. We are not excited about a future where humans spend the majority of their day in a virtual world. By facilitating genuine human connections IRL, we're building a product that swings the pendulum in the other direction.
We’re backed by a word-class set of investors including General Catalyst, Y Combinator (W23), Upfront Ventures, NEA, Jaegermeister, 1517 Fund, Cory Levy (Z Fellows), the Founder of Dropbox (Arash Ferdowsi), the Founder of On Deck (Julian Weisser) & more.
what you’ll be doing:
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You will be joining 222 as an early full-time engineering hire - spearheading all things web development, back-end APIs, system design, & automation. you’ll be working directly with the early engineering team to scale our back-end, enhance our front-end web applications, and to be part of a growing world-class engineering team.
who you are:
- You’re incredibly thoughtful and meticulous about system design & long-lasting abstractions
- You’re passionate about solving the problem 222 is tackling
- You have experience building web apps in React/Next JS
- You have experience working with Python Fast API
- You have experience working with PostgreSQL
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bonus: You’ve built and shipped an Android app
- You have experience scaling the backend/infrastructure of a live software product
- You have a strong stance on the ethics surrounding user psychology in social products
- Regardless of personal experience, you’re excited about wearing different hats across front-end engineering, back-end engineering, & architecture
- Demonstrated history of building outside of work/school (projects/products, applications, music, art, etc.)
skills & tools:
- Back-end development: Python (Flask/Fast-API), PostgreSQL
- Front-end web development: React/Next JS, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Node
- Bonus: familiarity with shipping Android apps either natively or in React Native
we’re looking for this type of person:
🖌️ full-stack engineer with extensive web and backend algorithms design experience
🧠 first principles thinking
🏗️ history of building things from scratch
🙇♂️ strongly opinionated about our current social fabric and its future
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