Meedan

About Us

Meedan is a global technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off. We have an affiliated for-profit, Meedan Labs, which works with our for-profit clients. We develop open-source tools for creating and sharing context on digital media through annotation, verification, archival, and translation. We work with technologists, newsrooms, fact-checkers, public health professionals, NGOs and academic institutions on award-winning projects from election monitoring to pandemic response to human rights documentation. This work supports our vision of a more equitable internet.

Meedan's engineering team values responsibility, collaboration, continuous learning, refactoring, communication, constructive debate, code clarity, and code reuse. We strive to complete assigned tasks, help each other, learn from various sources, maintain a maintainable codebase, communicate openly, resolve issues through respectful debate and prioritize code readability.

Our team members are distributed through multiple cities and time zones. Our team members are able to work flexibly and respond to challenges across a range of project areas. This includes the following:

• Flexible work from home
• Flexible schedule
• Support for home office
• Internal EDI training and regular EDI impact and policy reviews 
• Code of Conduct

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Statement

We actively recruit and encourage applications from individuals from historically underrepresented communities in technology and journalism, including those who identify as LGBTQ+, women, people of color and/or from underrepresented cultural communities, and people with disabilities.

Perks and Benefits

Benefits

At Meedan, we believe that the work we do is only as strong as the wellbeing of the people who make it happen. We’re committed to providing a broad range of employee benefits that uplift the engagement and growth of our people, and to truly embody awesome in our Meedan culture.

For candidates from the US, we have the following benefits available:

• Unlimited PTO including vacation, holidays, and sick time with expansive coverage, including for menstrual pain, caretaking responsibilities, and mental health needs. Additionally, we are closed and off the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Flexible leave for bereavement, major illness, parental responsibilities, pregnancy, military duties, civic responsibility, severe weather conditions
• Generous health and dental benefits, including 100% employee premium coverage and 50% coverage of dependents
• Complimentary One Medical subscriptions for employees and dependents
• Complimentary HealthAdvocate Healthcare Support and Talkspace Online Mental Health Therapy plans for employees
• 401k plan with an elective match of 100% of the first 3% of each employee's contribution and 50% of the next 2% 3% employer contribution and a flexible spending account
• Employer-paid life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
• Options of employee-paid vision insurance, commuter benefits, healthcare FSA, and childcare FSA
• A one calendar month paid sabbatical after five years of employment

For candidates outside of the US, we negotiate a generous monthly service fee to allow you to manage your retirement and other costs.

Professional Development and Social Support

All candidates around the world have the following resources available:

• Professional development support
• Mentorship program plus regular learning sessions/seminars
• Regular optional team social activities online and offline, including games, yoga, meditation and meals
• Generous travel support for in-person meetings and retreats with colleagues, where public health guidelines allow
• Paid subscription to meditation apps and other mental health resources
• Complimentary access to publications like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others
• Digital security training and support