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Software Engineer, The Stacks

Astera Institute· Foundation
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Emeryville HQ$100k - $200kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Full-time software engineer to help build and scale The Stacks, a content platform for sharing, discovering, and building upon scientific, technical, and intellectual work. Hands-on generalist with experience in complex content platforms or large-scale web applications, capable of redesigning core systems as the product evolves.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of The Stacks—including backend services, frontend interfaces, data models, and integrations.
  • Implement high-quality user-facing interfaces and experiences using modern web technologies.
  • Assist in building APIs and services for content-management.
  • Work closely with team members to develop features and iterate rapidly based on feedback.
  • Help manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, observability, and smooth development workflows.
  • Maintain high-quality engineering practices including version control, testing, documentation, and CI/CD workflows.
  • Provide ongoing support and improvements post-launch, including bug fixes, feature development, and performance optimization.
  • Contribute to open-source components of The Stacks when appropriate.
  • Collaborate with related internal teams across Astera’s connected programs and external partners as needed.

Qualifications

  • BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 2-3+ years experience building and maintaining software systems.
  • Interest in working with content-heavy or knowledge-based platforms, and tackling problems related to publishing systems, large documentation or archival sites, user-generated content.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with some modern backend and frontend technologies (e.g., TypeScript, React, Node.js, Express.js/Hono, SQL databases, Prisma/Drizzle, etc.). Specific technologies matter less than ability to learn and adapt.
  • Ability to move quickly in environments with evolving requirements, ambiguity, and rapid iteration cycles.
  • Highly adaptable and comfortable working across disciplines.

Skills

Required:Backend development
Nice to have:Cloud infrastructureOpen-source collaboration

Benefits

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Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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