Karat
Community Engineer (SWE3), Brilliant Black Minds (United States)
Remote (United States - Select States) · Contract
No sponsorship$140k-$162kDetected 5 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonRubyDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningLLMsCommunication
About the role
- We're Karat, the world's largest interviewing company.
- Karat is transforming organizations around the world.
- We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead.
Responsibilities
- As a Community Engineer at Karat, you will drive the technical evolution of Brilliant Black Minds, building AI-powered tools, automations, and experiences that serve a community of 11,000+ diverse software engineers.
- Lead projects end-to-end from design through release, including those with significant ambiguity.
- Build and maintain clean, scalable services, components, and APIs
- Build tooling and automations that scale BBM's community operations, including newsletter workflows, Discord integrations, and candidate-facing resources.
- Manage day-to-day community operations: moderating Discord, engaging members across experience levels, and participating in study groups.
- Identify gaps in what the community needs, design solutions, and ship them.
- comfort across the stack and with API design
- Build and maintain clean, scalable services, components, and APIs; take accountability for the quality and reliability of all code you touch.
- Please refer to our geographic classification document to view which tier applies to your location.
Requirements
- Experience with system architecture, database design, cloud infrastructure, and deployment technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Nice to have
- Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks (experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Ruby strongly preferred)
Compensation
- At Karat, salary ranges for each U.S.-based position are determined by the employee's work location.
- We structure our compensation into geographic tiers based on market data and regional economic factors.
- $139,556.70 - $162,112.50 USD
- $124,050.40 - $144,100 USD
- $108,544.10 - $126,087.50 USD
Benefits
- Familiarity with LLM APIs or AI-enhanced product features; curiosity about how AI/ML technologies can enhance assessment, learning, or community experiences
Company info
- At the core of Karat's system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.
- Come join our Brilliant Black Minds team
- Our Brilliant Black Minds (BBM) team is committed to increasing access for diverse software engineers by connecting a community of 11,000+ members with networks, opportunities, and the technical interview preparation they need to thrive.
- This role is 70% hands-on engineering and 30% community program management
- Leverage AI-assisted development as a core part of your engineering workflow to move quickly and build efficiently as a solo engineer
- While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to these specific locations.
Equal opportunity
- people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at accommodation@karat.com.
- We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Immigration sponsorship is not available.
This listing is sourced directly from Karat's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.