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

Overview

Community Engineer (SWE3) at Karat, driving the technical evolution of the Brilliant Black Minds community of 11,000+ diverse software engineers. The role is about 70% hands-on engineering and 30% community program management, and the engineer is the sole engineer on the program.

What you'll do

• 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.
• Leverage AI-assisted development as a core part of your engineering workflow.
• 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.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of professional experience designing and shipping web applications or distributed systems to production.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks; comfort across the stack and with API design.
• Experience with system architecture, database design, cloud infrastructure, and deployment technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with LLM APIs or AI-enhanced product features; curiosity about how AI/ML technologies can enhance assessment, learning, or community experiences.
• A track record of delivering projects independently, from problem identification to shipped solution, with high-quality output.
• Active involvement in the technical community as a mentor, advisor, or contributor, and genuine comfort engaging with engineers across all experience levels, from new grads to senior engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts clearly for a non-technical audience when needed.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Ruby (strongly preferred).
• Experience building community-facing technical products or tooling, such as Discord bots, automation workflows, developer portals, or equivalent.

Details

• Location: Remote, United States. Position is only available to candidates residing in CA, FL, IL, MA, MO, NY, OR, TX, or WA.
• Immigration sponsorship is not available.
• Base salary by geographic tier (USD): GeoLo 1 $157,284.10 to $180,178.30; GeoLo 2 $141,555.69 to $162,160.47; GeoLo 3 $125,827.28 to $144,142.64; GeoLo 4 $110,098.87 to $125,124.81.