Hey there,

Oliver and Vincent here, co-founders of Memex.Garden, and we’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to join our 3 person team. $7-10k/month salary plus shares in the company.

Memex is a personal & collaborative reader to collect, annotate and discuss websites, PDFs and Youtube videos. By yourself or with your team and community. We're in Beta and you can download it here: memex.garden.
This is made for DAOs, commercial and academic research teams, reading clubs and students with the need to collaboratively read and talk about web content, papers, Youtube videos and (soon) images.

We’re funded with support from Protocol Labs as well as leading people at Protocol Labs, Anaconda, Ceramic & RMRK.

Next, you'll be working on the collaborative curation and annotation workflows and on the sync between Discord and Memex Spaces to automatically extract links and conversations from there.

Here is a demo of it: https://share.descript.com/embed/njHdzaaXN9a

About the role

You’ll be the 3rd person joining our 2-person engineering team and will mainly work on the feature development. Upcoming are improvements to the collaboration experience, image support and the Discord sync.

While we use React, Typescript, Firebase and React Native, we’re not looking for a checklist of technologies. We’re looking for people who can demonstrate experience and deep knowledge about programming and the surrounding skills to ship projects. (We’re not open to junior positions at this moment.)

This means the ability to analyze problems, communicate how you’re going to solve them, the trade-offs involved with your approach, converting that into well-written code that your colleagues will have a good time continuing on and transferring knowledge. We value how much certain ideas and technologies fit the problem at hand and the overall architecture of the product, not which technologies are hot at at the moment.

We do combine simple ideas in exciting ways to allow us to achieve much more with a small team and create a developer experience only found in our company, with much more to come. This enabled that 95% of Memex was built by only 2 devs.

Here’s some other more things important to us:

• The hurry to get out features and the need to clean up code so we can continue to ship quickly are at constant odds with each other. You can identify what’s needed to keep us nimble and are good at communicating that to developers and non-developers alike.
• You’re passionate about opportunities you see to make the product and our experience working on our project great and clearly communicate advantages and trade-offs, but you recognize the different perspectives will enhance your ideas, or show that your idea is not the right fit for a particular context.
• You value simple code that is easy to understand over smart code that people are afraid to change or costs needless effort to dive into (including for your own sake after you’ve forgotten how the cleverness works.)
• You can clearly communicate how much autonomy or guidance you need to get things done, but can also concisely keep people who depend on your work up to date and provide them with what they need to get their things done.
• We’re building a platform encouraging the encounter of opposing ideas, and are strong proponents of free speech and care for our fellow humans. So even though we may intensely disagree, we recognize those who we disagree with as people with fundamental rights and human needs. We don’t like to nurture cultures of cancelling, labelling people with all sorts of -isms and one-sided views across the political spectrum. Lets rather look under the hood and be curious about different viewpoints.

Why are we building Memex?

On our own we can’t possibly understand the majority of polarising topics we encounter every day. However, we all search, filter, read and take notes about content online and produce information valuable to other people.

Memex aims to make sharing recommendations and conversations become so easy that we can share what we normally are be too busy to share, build on each others’ research and easily compare contrary ideas

We think that for a healthy social media environment it needs:

• Companies that don’t have such strong profit maximisation incentives that usually lead to extractive business practices like attention/ad-based business models or lock ins
• People with the ability to modify their own experience of a newsfeed and notifications
• Freedom of speech, but not necessarily freedom of reach
• Reduce need for centralised moderation through communal and individual content moderation

The economics behind Memex

We are a Steward Owned organisation in order to prevent profit maximisation incentives that lead to extractive business models and practices, while still giving the company the ability to grow big and fast. To enable that investors and team have a capped return on their investments and company can never be sold. We can get pretty rich if we are doing a good job, but not become billionaires.

We believe there is no collective intelligence without individual intelligence. For individual intelligence to be expressed in a digital space we need to be able to adapt our tools & connect workflows that individually suit our needs. The uncapped investor returns of VC money are the root cause of lock-ins that significantly hinder the emergence of an open knowledge society and collective intelligence that is able to overcome the complex challenges of our time.

https://share.descript.com/embed/mgPKFWDtw6T

Works that shape how we develop Memex:

https://memex.social/c/0Ap7BG0bCWUFviff4Rqu

Salary and compensation

Benefits

🌎 Distributed team

⏰ Async

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏔 Company retreats

🏬 Coworking budget

📚 Learning budget

🧘 Mental wellness budget

💰 Profit sharing

💰 Equity compensation

⬜️ No whiteboard interview

🎅 We hire old (and young)