3 hours ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$145k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the community portal, API, and operations tooling used by organizers, parents, and internal teams.
- Build self-serve community directories with parent join requests, approvals, and automated creation workflows.
- Design and maintain call-routing rules governing who can call whom and how quickly removals take effect.
- Acquire and ingest school and neighborhood datasets and enable parents to select relevant communities.
- Build new community features that become possible when neighborhoods or groups reach sufficient density.
- Define how children’s and families’ data is stored, accessed, and removed when a family leaves.
- Instrument systems with alarms, tests, and metrics to measure reliability and community engagement.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building and running web services with ownership of shipped systems.
- Strong TypeScript experience across the stack, including production APIs on AWS Lambda with Postgres and Next.js frontend development.
- Ability to design relational models for membership, permissions, and audit history.
- Strong understanding of authorization, access control, and rapid enforcement of permission changes.
- Experience instrumenting systems and applying a reliability-focused approach.
- Clear written communication and a collaborative, low-ego working style.
- Fluency using AI tools across prototyping, development, and analysis.
- Bonus qualifications include trust-and-safety or permissions systems experience, COPPA knowledge, Flutter, Shopify, Retool, or telephony familiarity.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build technology intended to protect childhood and reduce screen time.
- Ownership of the Communities product and influence over features enabled by dense local networks.
- Small, high-trust, mission-driven team with meaningful ownership from day one.
- Room to explore, challenge assumptions, and solve difficult product and systems problems.
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About Tin Can
Tin Can builds screen-free calling devices and companion services that let kids connect with the people who matter without smartphones. It sells consumer hardware paired with parental controls and onboarding flows designed to get families started quickly and keep kids calling week after week. Privately held and focused on family communications, the company targets households that want kid-friendly connectivity free from the noise of mainstream social media.