FULL-STACK DEVELOPER
Sexual Health Innovations (SHI) is offering a unique opportunity to use your technical skills to change the future of sexual health and wellbeing.
SHI is a woman-founded and women-led nonprofit startup that builds technology to advance sexual health and wellbeing in the United States. We are hiring a highly-motivated full-stack web developer to work on Callisto, our largest program and main initiative. Callisto is a third-party sexual assault reporting system designed to provide a more empowering reporting experience for college sexual assault survivors and to facilitate the identification of repeat assailants.
You have:
- Familiarity with and experience working in an MVC framework (like Django or Rails)
- Deep empathy for our users, especially with regards to their privacy
- Sensitivity to confidential information, data integrity, and security
- A practical, product-focused approach to web development
- Ability to work independently and proactively
- Resourcefulness and the ability to prioritize
- Strong communication skills and an understanding of the challenges and joys of remote work
- A demonstrated drive to learn new things and continually develop your skills
We will give you:
- A hands-on education in web accessibility and application security
- Trust and support to make technical decisions and decide on direction
- Experience working on and maintaining open source projects
- A professional development budget and guidance to help your career grow as our organization grows
- Flexible work hours and location
- Full benefits package
- Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave
- $80k-$90k/yr salary, commensurate with experience
- Purposeful and fulfilling work toward a noble mission
SHI is a small, close-knit team that values transparency and honest communication. You will be working closely with the Chief Technology Officer on every part of the Callisto stack. Right now, that includes Heroku, Postgres, Python, Django, Bootstrap, and Javascript. Our priorities as a technical organization are security, accessibility, user experience, and engineering best practices, such as automated testing and continuous integration. If you’re not sure if you should apply or not, you should!
Location: SHI has offices in San Francisco and New York City. In this position, you will have the opportunity to work remotely or from our offices. This is a full-time position. Travel expected once a year.
How to Apply:
Please submit the following documents to jobs@sexualhealthinnovations.org with the subject line “Full Stack Developer”:
Please submit the following documents to jobs@sexualhealthinnovations.org with the subject line “Full Stack Developer”:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Any relevant projects in your portfolio that you can share
Developers of color are especially encouraged to apply. Trans and non-binary developers are especially encouraged to apply. Queer developers are especially encouraged to apply. Developers with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply. Developers on their 2nd or 3rd career are especially encouraged to apply. Your perspective is invaluable to our work.
SHI is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all federal, state and local equal opportunity and nondiscrimination laws. Our policy is to afford equal opportunity in all aspects of employment to all persons, including applicants, volunteers and independent contractors, without unlawfully discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming), sex (including pregnancy, perceived pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, enrollment in a public assistance program, physical or mental disabilities, legally protected medical condition or information (including genetic information), family care or medical leave status, military caregiver status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any other protected class category covered by local, state or federal law. Sexual Health Innovations is committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees, volunteers, board member, contractors, clients, and any other person that interacts with the organization.
Consistent with the law, SHI also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees; for pregnant employees who request an accommodation, with the advice of their health care providers, for pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; for employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and for applicants and employees based on their religious beliefs and practices.
