Community Engineer (SWE3), Brilliant Black Minds (United States)

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. This role is 70% hands-on engineering and 30% community program management; you will be the sole…
• Lead projects end-to-end from design through release, including those with significant ambiguity.
• Build and maintain clean, scalable services, components, and APIs; take accountability for the quality and reliability of all code you touch.
• Integrate LLM APIs and AI-enhanced capabilities into BBM's technical interview preparation offerings, helping the community stay current with AI-era engineering practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development as a core part of your engineering workflow to move quickly and build efficiently as a solo engineer
• 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.
• The experience you will bring
• 5+ years of professional experience designing and shipping web applications or distributed systems to production

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