Stacker News is a platform for digital communities with digital economies. Using bitcoin, lightning, web of trust, nostr, and what comes next, SN wants to be a virtual city center for curious people.
SN is seeking an Everything Engineer to be programming hire #2, serve the 20k+ registered stackers, and attract and prepare SN for the next 100k.
You'll contribute to the hard problems we believe the internet needs to solve: non-custodial lightning app wallets, user generated economies, censorship-resistance, privacy preserving business models, decentralized social media, decentralized trust, using money to determine information quality, and sybil-resistance in the digital commons.
Bitcoin's properties are SN's goal post. Our dream is for SN to function autonomously by virtue of its incentives and the value it brings people.
What we mean by everything engineer:
- comfortable building UI/UX and optimizing and scaling backends
- not afraid of designing protocols and algorithms, and writing system software if/when needed
- open to learning whatever is necessary to get the job done
- you don't need to be told what to do
- programming is your calling and you aim to be a master
You should be:
- extraordinarily honest
- extraordinarily curious
- attracted to solving hard problems
You should be experienced with most of the major components in our stack:
- javascript
- react
- postgres
- lnd
SN is FOSS and you can peep it here: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news
SN's solution scope spans non-technical domains and you should at least be excited to learn about them:
- game theory
- economics
- trust/reputation
- group psychology
- network effects
- information mapping
- design
To apply for a full time position, start by getting paid to contribute to our open source project: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news
Applications will be ignored if you haven't made open source contributions to SN first. We pay bitcoin for contributions and have put a lot of effort into making it easy to contribute.
Once you've complete a few issues, send a resume to kk@stacker.news.
Full time compensation will be based on excellence. We can cover medical and dental.