MuckRock | $90,000 | DocumentCloud Lead Developer | Remote/Global | Full Time
MuckRock is a non-profit transparency organization that helps file Freedom of Information requests, analyze and host massive document sets, and builds tools that help inform the public and hold institutions accountable. We work over 3,000 newsrooms, including established investigative units and tiny startup outlets.
The MuckRock Foundation is seeking a lead developer for DocumentCloud, our open source document processing, hosting, and analysis platform that’s now home to over 125 million pages of primary source documents. We’re looking for a software developer interested in building open source, public-interest technology with experience with Python and Svelte, React, Vue, or other major JavaScript frontend frameworks. (DocumentCloud is built with Django and Svelte, hosted on Heroku and AWS).
The role offers an opportunity to power more informed communities around the world, with your code reaching 40 to 80 million people each month and powering both national investigative reporting as well as helping cover the nuts and bolts of local town councils. There will also be opportunities to experiment with new approaches to journalism, ranging from tapping the power of artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing document dumps, and features that will power the next generation of journalism and public accountability.
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