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Our World In Data (YC W19) | Senior Data Visualisation Engineer | Full-Time | Remote

At Our World In Data, our mission is to make the world's biggest problems understandable, so that we can take effective action on them. We publish research and data on crucial topics like poverty, disease, hunger, inequality, war and climate change.

The way we do this is especially through our data visualisation framework Grapher (https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher), which powers our interactive charts and our explorers for larger datasets. We're now looking for a senior engineer to join our team and take ownership over this visualisation framework.

We are a remote-first team that spans EU and US East timezones. As a team, we're also passionate, talented, and driven to do work that makes a difference.

Feel free to ask any questions you might have about the role. You can also learn more apply here: https://ourworldindata.org/senior-data-visualisation-enginee...

I contribute to Our World In Data [0] and some of the Rails repos. I also run my own open source projects [1][2].

I've just recently started doing it, and I only put in a few hours each week. Slow and steady wins the race. My motivation is three-fold: First, it's gratifying to give something back to software I love using for free. Second, I learn a lot. Third, if I ever want to work with one of the companies who are stewarding these repos, it gives me a leg up in the application process.

0: https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher

1: https://github.com/shafy/fugu

2: https://github.com/mapzy/mapzy