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ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join our growing team and help build the cornerstone of our business: our Law Enforcement Response portal. Kodex is an early stage startup so each engineer wears multiple hats. You will work as part of a small, talented team that includes engineers with experience at successful companies like Medium, HashiCorp, Microsoft, Mozilla, Meta, and Uber. In this role, you will:
- Work closely with our Director of Product to design, develop, and enhance features for our portal.
- Lead projects to optimize system performance, including database usage, encryption middleware, and front-end responsiveness.
- Participate in our on-call rotation (about one week every two months), where you'll address support requests, monitor metrics, and respond to incidents to ensure reliability.
- Review code and contribute to improving engineering best practices.
This role is ideal for full-stack generalists with T-shaped skills who thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy taking ownership.
We're fully remote, the team is distributed across the continent. We meet up twice a year in various locations around the United States (past meetups were in Miami, Nashville, Seattle, and San Francisco).
We don't sponsor visas.
ABOUT KODEX
Kodex creates software that helps private companies handle lawful data requests from governments. Our founders have seen firsthand how difficult it is for public and private sectors to collaborate effectively–preventing real-world harm while respecting user privacy. Slow processes, clunky tools, and misuse by bad actors were common problems. Kodex was built to fix that.
Our platform streamlines case management for Law Enforcement Response and Trust & Safety teams. It combines secure workflows, communication, and file transfers with features like document encryption, audit trails, agency verification, account takeover detection, and API integrations—delivering a complete legal response solution.
Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, Kodex helps companies securely and efficiently respond to data requests on time.
Email: anton+hn@kodexglobal.com
In my experience that’s how recruiters work and the only thing it indicates is that the company has open roles to fill.
Business email compromise (phishing, etc.) is the most common way attackers get into corporate systems. We're working on solving that issue. We've already found our product-market fit and we're now looking for people to help execute through the next phase of our growth.
There are many roles open, check the link above. For my team specifically we're looking for Python & Go engineers to work on our portal and other customer-facing products. We're also looking for people who can help us re-build our foundations to unlock the next phase of Abnormal growth.
Feel free to apply through the link above or email me at anton@[companyname].com
OneZero is a publication owned and operated by Medium.
If you want to purchase the complete book do it from the O'Reilly website or from Amazon. All proceeds go to EFF.
Our RDP (Remote Debugging Protocol) is not interoperable with the one in Chrome or any other browser. There are two reasons:
1) Both us and Chrome team would like to iterate on our protocols and tools as fast as we can. Maybe in future, when tools across browsers stabilize there will be a case for a standard but I personally believe that a wrapper protocol is a better answer.
2) RDPs depend on their platform's architecture. Ours is very SpiderMonkey centric while Chrome's is all about V8.
Google organized a nice Summit during the I/O this year and I attended on behalf of our team (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOO9Kb1-JJU). I shared my thoughts on interoperability and other issues here: https://medium.com/web-developer-tools/1060a9f69e6a
Hope that helps.
However, being too conservative doesn't work in Silicon Valley because you have to compete with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. for talent with their perks and benefits. Whether it's good or bad in the long term I do not know but it is a fact.
> I know you pretend like you don’t care, but I’m sure that down deep you’re wondering why NodeJS is getting all the attention instead of you.
> But why couldn't you have both?! That's what I mean when I'm talking about a false dichotomy, you're just using a strawman argument.
You can't have both because people don't have unlimited amount of time and resources. I'm not sure why I have to explain this.
Or you can continue calling people who maintain free and open source projects in their spare time douchebags and neckbeards.
Anyway, I wouldn't focus on JavaScript engines because JSON is now a universal format so for languages other than JavaScript you will have to define a formal specification.
* Comments in JSON files are not a great idea because people might (will?) abuse them to add special instructions for their own serializers. As soon as this happens we'll have a format that is not compatible with other serializers.
* JSON today is a universal format. So, what are special characters? Should '1hello' be quoted? If no, then its not a subset of JavaScript anymore. If you're writing a new specification you have to define all those things. Same with multiline strings: space after backslash?
* Why? I know that hand-writing JSON can be annoying but is this really the biggest problem we have?