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The Civilization Research Institute (CRI) is a research center focused on understanding and mitigating catastrophic and existential risk. Our mission is to create and disseminate actionable knowledge and wisdom that is essential for navigating the meta crisis, and to undertake research into viable future forms for global civilization. Our work spans technology, governance, ecological tipping points, financial systems, civilization theory, and societal sense‑making.

The work requires analytical rigor, systems thinking, and cross‑disciplinary fluency. We operate in a high‑trust, low‑ego environment where clarity, integrity, and long‑term thinking are essential.

If you’d like a quick overview of our work, this video with our Executive Director, Daniel Schmachtenberger, is a good place to start.

The Full Stack Developer will build and maintain software to support our research team. You will develop research tools, data systems, and applications to help users organize information, evaluate evidence, identify patterns, and make better-informed judgments. The role spans front-end development, back-end services, data infrastructure, and cloud operations. This is a hands‑on position for a developer who is comfortable owning systems across the full technology stack and translating rapidly evolving research needs into practical, reliable software.

• This is a full‑time remote role. Occasional travel to Asheville, North Carolina may be required for team meetings, planning sessions, and organizational events.
• The role will report to the CTO.

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain full‑stack software applications.
• Develop intuitive front‑end interfaces for research, knowledge management, data exploration, and collaborative sense making.
• Build and maintain back‑end services, APIs, databases, and data‑processing pipelines.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows, application monitoring, security, and system reliability.
• Work closely with researchers to translate complex or ambiguous requirements into usable technical solutions.
• Rapidly prototype new tools and evaluate their usefulness with internal users.
• Improve the architecture, performance, maintainability, and scalability of existing systems.
• Integrate third‑party services, APIs, data sources, and artificial intelligence or machine‑learning capabilities where appropriate.
• Establish and maintain sound engineering practices, including automated testing, documentation, version control, code review, and continuous integration and deployment.
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues across the application stack.
• Help shape technical strategy, product priorities, and architectural decisions.
• Communicate technical concepts, trade‑offs, risks, and constraints clearly to both technical and non‑technical colleagues.
• Contribute to a thoughtful, collaborative, and intellectually rigorous organizational culture.

• Strong professional experience building and maintaining production web applications.
• Experience with modern front‑end frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue, or a comparable framework.
• Experience designing and developing back‑end services and APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, Flask, Node.js, or comparable technologies.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, and SQL, preferably in GCP.
• Experience with containerization and modern deployment workflows.
• Experience deploying cloud‑based applications and solid understanding of cloud architecture, application security, authentication, authorization, monitoring, logging, and operational reliability.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
• Ability to work independently,…