🌃 **apply here to help build the future of social.

🎲 working at 222.

full time | new york city - 222 roles are always in-person.

www.222.place

ig: @222place

about 222:

We’re an early stage startup working on building the future of social. We are not excited about a future where humans spend the majority of their day in a virtual world. By facilitating genuine human connections IRL, we're building a product that swings the pendulum in the other direction.

We’re backed by a word-class set of investors including General Catalyst, Y Combinator (W23), Upfront Ventures, NEA, Jaegermeister, 1517 Fund, Cory Levy (Z Fellows), the Founder of Dropbox (Arash Ferdowsi), the Founder of On Deck (Julian Weisser) & more.

what you’ll be doing:

• You will be joining 222 as an early full-time engineering hire - building out back-end APIs, systems, & automation. you’ll be working directly with the early engineer team to scale our back-end, enhance our front-end web applications, and to be part of a growing world-class engineering team.

who you are:

• You’re passionate about solving the problem 222 is tackling
• You’re incredibly meticulous about system design decisions, can think through repercussions
• You have experience working with Python Fast API & Postgres
• You have experience scaling the backend/infrastructure of a live software product
• bonus: You have experience building web apps in React/Next JS
• bonus: You’ve built and shipped an Android app
• You have a strong stance on the ethics surrounding user psychology in social products
• Regardless of personal experience, you’re excited about wearing different hats across front-end engineering, back-end engineering, & architecture
• Demonstrated history of building outside of work/school (projects/products, applications, music, art, etc.)

skills & tools:

• Back-end development: Python (Flask/Fast-API), PostgreSQL
• Bonus: Front-end web development: React/Next JS, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Node
• Bonus: familiarity with shipping Android apps either natively or in React Native

we’re looking for this type of person:

🖌️ backend engineer with experience building complex systems

🧠 first principles thinking

🏗️ history of building things from scratch

🙇‍♂️ strongly opinionated about our current social fabric and its future

what we’re offering:

🏦 401K matching

💸 competitive salary + equity

🎲 fully comped 222 experiences

🧑‍⚕️ platinum PPO, 100% covered by the company, $0 annual deductible

📈 a chance to join an early-stage startup backed by an incredible set of investors

🖥️ the opportunity to work IRL with a tight-knit team of co-workers and friends