Sexual Health Innovations (SHI), a non-profit organization dedicated to creating technology that advances sexual health and wellbeing in the United States, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to oversee the creation, implementation, and growth of a third-party college sexual assault reporting system, Callisto.

Callisto is a Google.org-backed third-party sexual assault reporting system designed to provide a more empowering reporting experience for college sexual assault survivors and to facilitate the identification of repeat assailants. One in five college women are sexually assaulted, and many men are as well. While 90% of college assaults are committed by repeat assailants, less than 10% of assaults are reported.

Callisto will be a browser-based web app and digital escrow agent. You can learn more about the initiative from this article in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/upshot/reporting-sexual-assault-is-difficult-but-a-new-technology-may-help.html?abt=0002&abg=0. SHI already has a pilot campus lined up for Callisto and plans to launch this summer on three university campuses. The work of the Lead Software Engineer will help improve the lives of hundreds of college sexual assault survivors.

The Lead Software Engineer will head up technology development at SHI, laying out the strategy for product development and overseeing product execution and deployment. She or he will collaborate closely with SHI’s Callisto Project Officer/Product Manager as well as members of our technical advisory board to develop the Callisto web application. She or he will also help manage contractors, and possibly eventually other full-time engineering staff, to maintain and conduct development on SHI’s current initiatives.

This position is the ideal opportunity for an engineer who wants to grow a product from the ground up, have ownership over her or his work, support sexual assault survivors, and protect college students from repeat rapists.

Market-rate salary, commensurate with experience.

Salary and compensation

$100,000 — $125,000/year

Equity

15.0 – 15.0