[Remote] Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Israel West Institute is an international research, policy, and media organisation focused on Israel’s relationships with the United States, Europe, and the wider international system. The Software Engineer will build and scale publishing, research, data, search, community, and audience infrastructure, while developing products such as trackers, knowledge graphs, APIs, and AI-assisted research tools.

Responsibilities

• Building new reader-facing features
• Improving the core publishing platform
• Improving page performance and Core Web Vitals
• Designing scalable content architecture
• Developing the Global Antisemitism Tracker
• Creating additional data and research trackers
• Building internal research tools
• Developing journalist and researcher workflows
• Building structured databases
• Creating entity-based content relationships
• Developing APIs and data pipelines
• Improving article recommendations
• Creating better search
• Building topic and knowledge-graph infrastructure
• Automating internal linking
• Developing research dashboards
• Building data visualisations
• Creating systems for primary-source archives
• Developing historical timelines
• Building petition and community functionality
• Improving email and audience infrastructure
• Building analytics systems
• Developing automated publishing workflows
• Creating internal monitoring systems
• Automating technical SEO audits
• Monitoring broken links, redirects and orphan pages
• Improving structured data and schema
• Experimenting with AI-assisted research
• Developing tools for classifying large amounts of information
• Building internal source-verification workflows
• Exploring AI-assisted search across the IWI knowledge base

Skills

• Have built real production software used by real users
• Are comfortable moving between frontend and backend problems
• Can understand an unfamiliar codebase quickly
• Care about performance and reliability
• Think about scale
• Understand modern databases
• Enjoy ambiguous problems
• Can explain technical trade-offs to non-engineers
• Are interested in publishing, research, data or information products
• Understand the importance of technical SEO for large information platforms
• Know when a simple solution is preferable to a complicated one
• Can work asynchronously
• Are comfortable in a rapidly changing organisation
• Enjoy experimentation
• Can turn ideas into working products quickly
• Think about systems rather than individual pages
• Want substantial ownership over what they build
• An interest in geopolitics, foreign policy, international relations, security, research or media is useful, but engineering ability matters considerably more than having a particular academic background
• Strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity and an ability to learn quickly matter considerably more than having every technology on your CV
• An interest in geopolitics, foreign policy, international relations, security, research or media is useful, but engineering ability matters considerably more than having a particular academic background

Benefits

• Fully remote
• Remote and asynchronous work

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