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Developer Advocate 🔥


We have several open positions for software development, devops and developer advocacy staff starting in early 2022.

Together, you will be responsible for developing our open source virtual conference software. This includes working with our open source community and existing partners to increase the accessibility of our software and the broader web.

We are also starting a new project to tackle “communities” - what happens in the time between conferences. We’re excited to be working at the cutting edge of video communication, live-streaming and real-time virtual and hybrid events.

Developer Advocate

Midspace’s software is fully open source. We currently work with researchers from academia and industry as well as partner organizations. We are aiming to broaden our community in 2022.

In 2022, we are hoping to grow our open source community to release accessible web components for everyone to use. We would also like to keep the community up to date with new features and invite them to relevant conferences hosted on Midspace.

As our first developer advocate, you will be responsible for setting up and operating our community strategy. You will also work with our dev-ops engineer to improve our documentation and setup process for new developers.

Start date: In March to July 2022.

Values / Characteristics we’re looking for

We’re looking for you to show you hold the following values or have these characteristics. If you do, you’ll be a great fit for our team, our culture and our company’s overall mission.

  • Driven by social impact:
  • Clear alignment with the Midspace mission of
  • 1. reducing the impact of conferences on the environment
  • 2. making conferences more accessible
  • Enjoys remote work/working with a distributed team
  • Excited to be part of a growing team in an early-stage organization

Experience required

  • 1+ years in a relevant area of software engineering
  • Web app development
  • React
  • Typescript
  • GraphQL

Developer Advocate

  • 1+ years experience in an outward-facing advocacy role
  • 3+ years of engagement with open source communities
  • Technical writing
  • Presentations (webinars or conference talks) about software projects

Responsibilities

  • Designing, setting up and operating our community strategy
  • Assisting with open-sourcing key components from the Midspace system
  • Creation and delivery of webinars and conference talks
  • Coordinating communication with our community to build relationships with core members
  • Working with our dev-ops engineer to enable new OSS developers to onboard quickly and easily
  • Working with our open source community
  • Working with our partner organizations and individuals to support their projects and research
  • Including reading “People Powered” by Jono Bacon and implementing the steps he recommends

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