# Software Engineer

We're hiring a Software Engineer to join a growing team building products that reach hundreds of thousands of people thinking about how to do the most good. This is an individual contributor role on our Online Team, and will be responsible for prioritizing and implementing impactful technical work at CEA. This position reports to the incoming Head of Digital Product. You will collaborate closely with our Senior Software Engineer, Senior Product Designer, and EA Forum Product Lead, along with other teams at CEA as needed. We’re aiming to hire a mid-level software engineer, but we would consider hiring at the senior level for the right candidate. About CEA The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks. Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good - and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include in

- **Id**: 3535772
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/centre-for-effective-altruism-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T14:06:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:23:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 11282
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Parental leave, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Nonprofits & Foundations, Think Tanks & Policy Research

## Company

- **Id**: 8932
- **Name**: Centre for Effective Altruism
- **Domain**: effectivealtruism.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/effectivealtruism>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: UTC-5 – UTC+1
- **Utc offset min**: \-5
- **Utc offset max**: 1

## Salary

- **Min**: 134900
- **Max**: 166725
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 166725

## Technologies

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- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Vercel** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T17:32:39Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 84
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.844
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 166725
- **Is top pay**: no

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