Cortico is looking for an Engineering Team Lead to guide the building of the Local Voices Network, a platform that gathers, connects, and amplifies under-heard voices from communities around the world. We are looking for somebody with experience leading highly productive teams and who is comfortable across the tech stack, particularly in the frontend. The role is best suited for someone who is passionate about building software that acts as a complement to deep human interactions.

Specifically, you’ll be working on our online conversation platform and app-assisted hardware product that supports community organizations, journalists, local governments, and community members in gathering people together for constructive dialogue, amplifying voices from these conversations to a wider audience, and making sense of large collections of public conversation data.

As a member of the Cortico engineering team, you will be working with a large corpus of audio and transcript data from facilitated conversations. In the past three years, we have collected, transcribed, and indexed over 100k minutes of audio data, all of deep local community conversations. Due to Cortico’s unique relationship with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, you will also be able to work with researchers and experts in areas from natural language processing to civic engagement.

You will be managing a team of four engineers, as well as working closely with our Product Manager to plan sprints and our Senior Director of Partnerships to ensure proper communication of technical developments. You will also be coordinating with the MIT team on integrations and research. You can expect to spend ~25-40% of your time managing and the rest of your time contributing to the codebase.

On the data visualization side, we often build map visualizations (deck.lg + mapbox) as well as build out different ways to visualize 1-2 hour long conversation data and how to make sense of all of the words and the themes.

The compensation range for this role is $125,000 – $140,000 and we have competitive benefits which can be found here. Unfortunately, we do not currently have the resources to sponsor visas.