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Diversify Tech #393
Connecting underrepresented people in tech to career opportunities
Veni Kunche
June 23, 2026
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,
💼 Highland Group is looking for a Lead Designer & Strategist
📆 Girls Who Code is hosting a talk on Transforming Cybersecurity Talent: Why Women Must Lead the Way
⭐️ How Authentication Works in React by Shruti Kapoor
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Veni Kunche
JOBS
✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process
From our job board
✅ Lead Designer & Strategist, Highland Group, Inc., Chicago, IL, $140,000-$155,000
Senior Director, Product and Design, The Contingent, Portland, OR, $125,000-$134,998
Senior Operations and Analytics Manager, Movement Labs, Remote - US
Senior Product Manager (Payments), ActBlue, Remote - Must be located in the United States, $162,026-$195,915
From around the web
Data
Analyst II, Full Stack (Credit Analytics), Affirm, Remote - US
Analyst II, Full Stack (Core Analytics), Affirm , Remote - US
Data Analyst, Civic Nation, Remote - US
Fraud Countermeasure Specialist, Fraud Platform, Veriff, USA (Remote)
Design
Product Designer, Design Systems, Penn Interactive, Remote - US
UX/UI Designer, Vertech , Remote - US
Software Engineering
Software Engineer II, Destination Pet, Remote - TX
Software Developer, Jenzabar , Remote - US
Software Engineer, Marathon Health, Remote - US
Full Stack Developer, Neural Earth, Remote - US
Solutions Integration Engineer II, Samsara, Remote - US
Software Engineer, Spoiler Alert, Remote - US
Full Stack Developer, TurnCare, Remote - US
Founding Engineer (Rust), Blacksky, Remote - US
Product Engineering at LTIMindtree, Tampa, FL
Specialist - Data Engineering at LTIMindtree, Tampa, FL
Information Technology
Technical Support Engineer, Legion, Remote, United States
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EVENTS
Jun 26 - 27 Cascadia R Conf 2026, Portland, OR, USA
Jun 26 - 27 CyberJutsu Day 2026, Arlington, VA
Jun 27 - 28 Biosolutions Hackathon, San Francisco, CA
Jun 30 Transforming Cybersecurity Talent: Why Women Must Lead the Way, Online
Jul 8 - 10 WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026, Berlin
Jul 13 - 19 SciPy 2026, Minneapolis, MN.
Jul 18 Day of Data, Baton Rouge, LA
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SPEAK
Sep 16 Help form the FormFest experience (Virtual). Apply by Jun 26.
Aug 17 - Nov 20 React Summit US in New York, NY, U.S.A., Online. Apply by Jul 9.
Nov XtremeJS-2026 (Virtual). Apply by Jul 10.
Aug 7 - 8 BSides Brighton-2026 in United Kingdom. Apply by Jul 31.
Sep 16 - 17 DC State of the Stack 2026 in Washington, DC.
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ARTICLES & TUTORIALS
The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
Not a survey of how developers feel about AI but a measurement of what AI is actually producing across the full software development lifecycle, tracking metric change between periods of lowest and highest AI adoption within each organization.
Write for one person
We often see tech writing that tries to be for everyone. Julia Evans says to focus on writing for one person instead.
The Artificial Inevitability Of AI
Alex Hanna joins Emma for a conversation about her book co-authored with Emily Bender, “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want“.
How to Schedule Jobs in PostgreSQL with pg_cron
pg_cron is a PostgreSQL extension that runs a cron-style scheduler inside the database itself. In this tutorial by iyiola, you'll learn how it works, how to install and configure it, and how to use it for real maintenance tasks.
How Authentication Works in React
What happens behind the scenes when a user authenticates with "Sign In"? Shruti Kapoor dives into session-based auth, JWT-based auth, and the hybrid model real auth companies use in production.