[Hiring] Community Engineer @Karat

Role Description

As a Community Engineer at Karat, you will drive the technical evolution of Brilliant Black Minds, building AI-powered tools, automations, and experiences that serve a community of 11,000+ diverse software engineers. This role is 70% hands-on engineering and 30% community program management; you will be the sole engineer on the program, and staying close to the community is as important as the code you ship.

• Lead projects end-to-end from design through release, including those with significant ambiguity.
• Build and maintain clean, scalable services, components, and APIs; take accountability for the quality and reliability of all code you touch.
• Integrate LLM APIs and AI-enhanced capabilities into BBM's technical interview preparation offerings, helping the community stay current with AI-era engineering practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development as a core part of your engineering workflow to move quickly and build efficiently as a solo engineer.
• Build tooling and automations that scale BBM's community operations, including newsletter workflows, Discord integrations, and candidate-facing resources.
• Manage day-to-day community operations: moderating Discord, engaging members across experience levels, and participating in study groups.
• Identify gaps in what the community needs, design solutions, and ship them.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience designing and shipping web applications or distributed systems to production.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks (experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Ruby strongly preferred); comfort across the stack and with API design.
• Experience with system architecture, database design, cloud infrastructure, and deployment technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with LLM APIs or AI-enhanced product features; curiosity about how AI/ML technologies can enhance assessment, learning, or community experiences.
• A track record of delivering projects independently, from problem identification to shipped solution, with high-quality output.
• Active involvement in the technical community as a mentor, advisor, or contributor, and genuine comfort engaging with engineers across all experience levels, from new grads to senior engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts clearly for a non-technical audience when needed.
• Experience building community-facing technical products or tooling, such as Discord bots, automation workflows, developer portals, or equivalent, is a strong plus.

Requirements

• This position is only available to candidates residing in the following U.S. states: FL, IL, MA, MO, OR, TX, WA.
• While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to these specific locations. Applications from other states will not be considered at this time.
• Immigration sponsorship is not available.

Benefits

• Compensation Varies by Geographic Location.
• At Karat, salary ranges for each U.S.-based position are determined by the employee's work location. We structure our compensation into geographic tiers based on market data and regional economic factors.
• Base Salary (GeoLo 2): $139,556.70 — $162,112.50 USD.
• Base Salary (GeoLo 3): $124,050.40 — $144,100 USD.
• Base Salary (GeoLo 4): $108,544.10 — $126,087.50 USD.

Company Description

Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.