Diversify Tech #350

Hi! Welcome to Diversify Tech's Professional Edition. This newsletter is for underrepresented people in tech; specifically curated for mid-senior level folks. Every Tuesday, we share jobs, events, and other career opportunities.

In this week's issue,

• Yahoo, NerdWallet and more are hiring

• Ankita Kulkarni is hosting a free workshop on Next.js

• Baraa shares insights on when you should use Pandas vs. PySpark

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JOBS

✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process

From our job board

• ✅ Full Stack Product Engineer, One Project, Remote - Legal authorization to work in the US and ability to work in US time-zones. Also, open to applicants in the UK, Denmark, or Sweden, $150000-$200,000

• ✅ Senior Systems Administrator, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC, USA, $95,000-$115,000

• Senior Intelligent Automation Engineer (Security), NerdWallet, Remote - United States, $136,000-$252,000

• Senior Intelligent Automation Engineer (Security) (CAN), NerdWallet, Remote - United States, CA$133,000-$212,000

• Senior Engineering Manager - NerdWallet Mortgage Experts, NerdWallet, Remote - United States, $152,000-$282,000

• VP, Analytics, NerdWallet,Remote - United States, $280,000-420,000

From around the web

• Metronome (New York City; Remote; San Francisco Bay Area)

  • Software Engineer, Data Platform

  • Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure

  • Software Engineer, Product Platform

  • Software Engineer, Product

• Yahoo (Remote - US)

  • Yahoo! Sports – Back-End Developer

  • Big Data Tools Engineer - Software Dev Engineer I

  • Software Dev Engineer II - Backend/Data

  • Sr Software Engineer -Yahoo Mail Antispam Team

  • Product Manager, Yahoo Games

  • Sr. Product Designer, Yahoo! Sports

  • Senior Product Designer, Commerce Tools

  • and more!

• Mediavine (Remote - US)

  • Data Analyst II

  • Data Engineer II

• Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. (Remote - US)

  • Data Analyst III

  • Senior Product Designer

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CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS

• Oct 15 - 16 InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 in Munich, Germany. Apply by Sep 1.

• Aug 18 2025 Rails Camp West. Scholarship recipients who are accepted will receive full coverage for lodging, camp activities, and a bus ride to/from Anchorage Airport. They will not be able to cover your meals ($230).

EVENTS

• Aug 6 Mapping for Equity at Big Bush Playground & Park: Using OpenStreetMap and BetaNYC's Mapping for Equity Toolkit in Your Community

• Aug 6 Authentic Self-Promotion: Ditch the Cringe, Own Your Value, Create Opportunities

• Aug 7 Understanding Visual Agents

• Aug 11 - 16 Black is Tech Week 2025

• Aug 12 A Tutorial for Getting Started with PyMC

• Aug 13 The Modern Next.js Developer Workshop (2025 Edition) (FREE Workshop)

• Aug 14 Out in Tech | Career Talks

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SPEAK

• Oct 21 - 23 Magnolia Conf 2025 in Jackson, MS. Apply by Aug 15.

• Oct 7 - 9 TechFutures by Lesbians Who Tech in New York.

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READS

• The Militarization of Silicon Valley by Sheera Frenkel - In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

• Why Data Literacy Is the Heart of Successful Change Management in Data-Driven Organizations by Shivangee Agarwal

• Pandas vs. PySpark: Which One Should You Use? by Baraa Khatib Salkini

• Building Native Plugin Systems with WebAssembly Components by Sy Brand

• Why Are My React Components Re-rendering Too Much? by Kevin Kouomeu

• How to Build a Sustainable Open Source Contribution Routine by Tooba Jamal