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Quiet | Senior Software Engineer | Hybrid or remote, Boston area, US EST or Europe timezones | https://tryquiet.org/jobs We're building a free software, local-first, peer-to-peer alternative to Slack and Discord because we believe that ending dependence on cloud infrastructure, whenever possible, is the best path to giving users power over their data and their computing. Check out a demo we gave at Tor's "State of the Onion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-7k0PjnBbk&t=2264s We use Tor to discover and connect peers, an IPFS-based CRDT called OrbitDB to sync data within teams, and Electron and React Native for the desktop and mobile frontends. Almost everything is written in TypeScript. We have working betas that we use internally as our primary team chat space (http://tryquiet.org/) but we still have a ton of features to build as well as stack-level challenges to tackle before most teams could use it. Your role as our first senior hire would be to help us move gracefully through these features and challenges. This could be a dream job for any senior engineer itching to work on local-first software, distributed databases, decentralization, or privacy-enhancing technologies.