Meedan builds digital tools for global journalism and translation. We are a team of designers, technologists and journalists who focus on open source investigation of digital media and crowdsourced translation of social media. With commercial, media and university partners, we support research, curriculum development, and new forms of digital storytelling.
We build Check, a web platform for collaborative media annotation and claim-checking. The architecture is composed of microservices which talk to each other through their APIs. Those services are written in a variety of languages (Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Python, Node.JS, etc.) but the core services are written in Ruby on Rails and the core service also exposes a GraphQL API. On the database layer, we work with PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch and Redis.
The backend engineer participates in building and maintaining these services, bringing their experience and knowledge to produce high-quality code contributions and enrich the team’s collective assets and expertise. Their problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to learn fast, sense of initiative and positive attitude ensures a long and rewarding tenure in a similarly-minded group.
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About Meedan
Meedan is a global technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off. We have an affiliated for-profit, Meedan Labs, which works with our for-profit clients. We develop open-source tools for creating and sharing context on digital media through annotation, verification, archival, and translation. We work with technologists, newsrooms, fact-checkers, public health professionals, NGOs and academic institutions on award-winning projects from election monitoring to pandemic response to human rights documentation. This work supports our vision of a more equitable internet.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Statement
We are headquartered in San Francisco’s SOMA district with team members distributed through multiple cities and time zones. Our team members are able to work flexibly and respond to challenges across a range of project areas. This includes the following:
We encourage individuals from historically underrepresented communities in technology and journalism to apply, including women, people of color, veterans, people with disabilities and those who identify as LGBTQ.
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