Full Stack Research Engineer

We build tools and datasets to understand and respond to misinformation in India. We aim to support and scale existing misinformation response efforts by creating scrapers for sourcing content from chat apps and social media in India; using machine learning to categorize and classify multilingual, multimedia content; and distributing fact checked information so that it is accessible to mobile-first audience. In the process Tattle aims to enable more transparent research on misinformation on Indian Social Media.

About The Role

We are seeking a full stack software engineer with a strong interest in public interest technology and/or computational social science. We're looking for someone who can build robust software and also read, critique, and contribute to socio-technical research.

Some skills we regard as being important for this role :

Technical

• Fullstack Engineering - Elixir, Python, Javascript
• Familiarity with Linux and/or Cloud Service providers like AWS
• Comfortable with integrating new APIs
• Appreciation for understanding low-level implementation details, algorithms and data structures
• Contribution to open source software in any form

Socio-technical research

• Ability to engage with formal, quantitative, or computationally grounded social science
• Comfortable reading academic papers in economics, political economy, science & technology studies (STS)

Soft Skills

• Interest and Ability in tinkering with new technologies
• Keenness to mentor others in the organization and similarly learn from others in the team.

Start Date: As soon as possible
Experiences: 2-5 years
Remuneration: Commensurate with experience
Deadline: June 30th
Submission Requirement Along with your github/code samples, linking us to your writing samples is essential for this role.

About Tattle

• Tattle is a FOSS project. All code is licensed under GPL, and data that is safe to open is opened under an open data license. You retain all rights to the work you do with us and aren't bound to any prohibitive NDAs.

• At Tattle, we value inter-disciplinary thinking and unconventional life experiences. We provide space to incorporate your unique learnings in all that we make.

• We provide a stress free work environment. We have a flexible 8 hours workday policy, without any interruptions from us beyond that.

• We are a fully remote team that communicates asynchronously.

We Value Diversity and Multiplicity of Experiences

To this end, we strongly encourage candidates, even if they feel they don't meet all the above listed criteria but find alignment with the project and are driven to learn, to apply.

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