Overview:

As a senior developer at Unlocked Labs, you will work closely with the Engineering and Product orgs to build, ship, and maintain one or more products. We particularly welcome and encourage applications from folks with lived experience in the justice system.

Responsibilities:

Work with product leads to design and scope projects
Build fullstack applications that are reliable and performant
Keep you and your team on track using project management tools
Provide mentorship to your peers both during development and at code review

Qualifications:

Passionate about the future of justice system reform
Proven track record of shipping software and successfully released at least one product
5+ yrs of experience using any JS framework on the front-end and a major framework like NodeJS/Rails/django/go/elixir/java/flask/laravel on the backend
Passionate about writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure reliability
Comfortable with collaboration and open communication across distributed teams
Driven, ambitious, and excited to learn new things
Open source experience / contributions are a plus!

About Us:

Unlocked Labs is a non-profit organization that partners with correctional educators and state corrections departments to design technology infrastructure to better deploy programs and track outcomes, in order to understand efficacy and inform best practices in the justice system.

Our team, which includes justice-impacted software developers, technology industry experts, and education and corrections professionals, works to:

Build the open-source, public infrastructure is needed to support correctional program outcomes.
Train, employ, and empower justice-impacted individuals to obtain upwardly-mobile careers upon release.
Serve as thought-leaders in the correctional education and workforce development space to promote human-centered outcomes and enable smart decarceration.

What we offer:

Unlocked Labs' theory of change is that, by empowering individuals to take charge of their own futures, we can both unlock their upward mobility and create a fairer justice system. This applies to our employees, too: it's important to us that our team members can pursue the skills and projects they want to build their long-term future. Not only are we a mission-aligned organization, but individual growth and satisfaction is paramount to our organization's success. Have an idea that you want to roll out? Want to change up one of our processes or implement new software? Looking to learn a new skill and apply it? Come up with a plan and pitch it; we'll give feedback around implementing it.

We also provide a wide range of benefits:

Competitive salary
Group Health Insurance
Group Dental and Vision Insurance
Team outings to local businesses of St. Louis
Free drinks and snacks at our coworking space
~25 paid days off, not including holidays: 15 days of PTO, to be used at your discretion; a team-wide “Wellness Week,” where the entire team is off; and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.

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