Tin Can
Software Engineer, Communities
$145K–$175K
Seattle · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years building and running web services.
About the job
Own and build Tin Can’s Communities product, enabling families and organizers to create and manage child-safe calling directories and related features.
What you'll do
- Own the community portal, API, and operations tooling; make directories self-serve.
- Build and maintain call-authorization rules, membership permissions, and handling of children’s data.
- Develop school and neighborhood data pipelines, community features, and instrumentation for reliability and product outcomes.
What they ask for
- 4+ years building and running web services, with ownership of shipped work.
- Strong TypeScript across the stack, including production API development and Next.js front-end development.
- Ability to design relational models for membership, permissions, and audit history, and to build authorization with timely enforcement.
- Fluency using AI across prototyping, development, and analysis.
Nice to have
- Trust-and-safety or permissions systems experience; experience with a kids’ product and COPPA.
- Flutter, Shopify, or Retool experience; interest in telephony.
Pay
USD 145K – 175K base salary
Tools
TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Postgres, Next.js, Flutter, Shopify, Retool
AI focus
Use AI as a multiplier across prototyping, build, and analysis.
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