Diversify Tech #386

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,
💼 One Project, Perpay, ActBlue and more are hiring
📆 REFACTR.TECH is hosting a Coding Reading Club in Atlanta
⭐️ Abisoye Alli-Balogun on how to navigate microservices as a Frontend Engineer

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JOBS

✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process

From our job board

• ✅ Product Engineer, One Project, Remote - USA, East Coast time zone strongly preferred, $175,000-$200,000

• ✅ Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack, Perpay, Philadelphia, PA, USA, $160,000-$200,000

• Staff Software Engineer, ActBlue, Remote - Must be located within the United States, $191,681-$241,452

• ✅ AI Science Advisor (California Department of Technology / Governor's Office of Emergency Services), California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), Remote - Anywhere, $190,000-$220,000

• Business Intelligence Analyst (Onsite), University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA, $94,800-$109,000

From around the web

Data

• Analytics Manager, Consumer Analytics , Affirm, Remote US

• Associate Data Scientist, The Institutes, Remote

• Data Analyst, SMC³, PEACHTREE CITY, GA or LOUISVILLE, KY, Remote

• Data Scientist, HiddenLayer, Remote

• Data Science Analyst, Premise Health, Remote

• Dаtа Sсіеntіѕt, Progressive Leasing, Remote

• Underwriting Data Analyst, Judi Health, Denver, Colorado, United States; New York, New York, United States; Remote

Design

• Associate Product Designer, FOREVER, PITTSBURGH, PA - Remote

• Product Designer II (Remote), Kohl, Remote

• Product Designer, Finch , Remote - US

• Product Designer, Office Hours , San Francisco, NYC, Remot

• Product Designer, Wand , Remote - US

• UX Designer II, Bellese , Remote - US

• UX Designer II, Renaissance Learning North America, Remote-US

• UX Designer, Eptura, Remote

Software Engineering

• iOS Engineer II, Instacart, United States - Remote

• Senior Software Engineer, Insperity , Remote, Texas

• Software Developer I, ITA International, Remote - US

• Software Engineer I, Ophelia, Remote - US

• Software Engineer, Java Backend, Tixr, Remote - US

• Software Engineer, Workday (Integrations), Insperity , Remote, Texas

• Software Development Engineer, Zillow , Remote-US

• Senior Software Engineer (Haskell/Functional Programming), Well, Remote - US

• Sr. Software Engineer, Simulation, tvScientific, tvScientific, San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US

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EVENTS

• May 6 RightsxTech + Democracy Well: Building Digital Community with Joy

• May 11 - 13 Code Remix, Miami

• May 13 - 14 Agile Manchester 2026, Manchester

• May 13 - 19 PyCon US 2026, Long Beach, CA

• May 14 AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup, Online

• May 18 - Apr 21 Image Processing Data Carpentry Workshop, Madison, WI

• May 19 - 26 The Premier PHP Conference of 2026, Chicago 

• May 19 - 22 PGConf.dev 2026, Vancouver, BC, Canada

• May 19 Designing Intelligent Systems: Accessible AI & Real-World Architecture, Atlanta, GA

• May 20 Code Reading Club, Atlanta, GA

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SPEAK

• May 13 - 14 Apidays New York in New York, NY. Apply by May 12.

• May 18 - 19 TechEx North America in San Jose, CA. Apply by May 17.

• Oct 1 Open Tech Day 2026  in Nuremberg, Germany. Apply by May 31.

• Nov 3 - 24 XtremeJS-2026 (Virtual). Apply by Jul 10.

• Aug 7 - 8 BSides Brighton-2026 in United Kingdom. Apply by Jul 31.

• May 27 JNation 2026 in Coimbra, Portugal.

• Jun 12 - 16 React Summit in Amsterdam.

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RESOURCES & ARTICLES

• Pixel Pioneers is an affordable community conference in the UK for front-end developers and UX/UI designers with a focus on actionable takeaways. They have a limited number of scholarships available. Apply by May 19th!

• The UX Compensation Transparency Database is a crowdsourced compensation and salary database for User Experience jobs across all specialties. It contains anonymous data for roles at all levels in UX research, design, strategy, operations, content, writing, management, etc.

• Lisa Crispin talks about how to grow your career as a quality and testing professional.

• Abisoye Alli-Balogun on how to navigate microservices as a Frontend Engineer. You'll learn how to consume multiple service APIs without creating a tangled mess, how to handle partial failures gracefully in the UI, how to manage distributed state across services, and how to work effectively with backend teams.

• What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools? The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite.