Diversify Tech #404

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

In this week's issue,
💼 Seminar is looking for a Staff Software Engineer. It’s a Remote - US position.
📆 Rights x Tech is hosting a panel on Tech, Data & the Fight for Power
⭐️ The documentary Ghost in the Machine is now available to watch for free

Cheers,
Veni Kunche

JOBS

✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process

From our job board

✅ Staff Software Engineer, Seminar, Remote - United States, $150,000-$210,000

From around the web

Data

• Data Scientist, Amplify, Remote - US

• Data Engineer, Anteriad, Remote - US

Design

• Senior Product Designer - Global Commercial Services Technology, American Express, United States (Remote)

• Middle UI/UX Designer, Gamma Prime, Remote - US

• UX Designer, Talkspace, New York, NY (Remote)

Software Engineering

• Software Engineer II, Backend (Post-Transaction), Affirm, Remote - US

• Full Stack Software Engineer, Amplify , Remote - US

• Fullstack Software Engineer, ARB Interactive, Remote -US

• Software Engineer - Performance and Tools, HealthEdge, Remote - US

• Software Developer, Intelex Technologies ULC , Remote - US

• Software Engineering Manager, Data, Kard, Remote

• Senior Software Developer, API Platform and Ecosystem, MaintainX , Remote - US

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EVENTS

• Sep 18 - 20 Black Women in Data Summit 2026, Atlanta, GA 

• Sep 18 - 19 Remote Job Fair & Expo 2026, Online

• Sep 21 - 26 Tulsa Tech Week, Tulsa, OK

• Sep 23 Code Jam: Build Something Gloriously Useless, Alpharetta, GA

• Sep 23 Rights x Tech: Tech, Data & the Fight for Power, Online

• Sep 25 Bytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Atlanta, GA

• Sep 27 - Oct 3 Oakland Tech Week, Oakland, CA

• Sep 30 - Oct 1 Agile Cambridge 2026, Cambridge

• Oct 6 - 7 Community, Care, and Joy in Remaking, Resisting, and Reimagining EdTech, Online

• Oct 6 - Sep 12 MLH Global Hack week, Online

• Oct 9 - 15 Global Hack Week: Hacktoberfest, Online

• Oct 10 Day of Data Pittsburgh 2026, Homestead, PA

• Oct 11 - 13 THRIVE 2026, Dallas, TX

• Oct 15 - 17 AISES National Conference, Portland, OR

Have a free or low-cost tech event to share in our newsletter? Add it here!

SPEAK

• Oct 29 Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2026 (Virtual). Apply by Sep 28.

• Apr 16 Digital Crafts Day in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. Apply by Oct 31.

• Sep 16 - 17 DC State of the Stack 2026 in Washington, DC.

• Nov 24 - 27 BIG DATA CONFERENCE EUROPE 2026 in Online & Lithuana.

• Dec 7 - 10 ARCHCONF '26 in Clearwater, FL.

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RESOURCES

• One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’: Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

• Hosting Eleventy on GitHub Pages by Quinn Daedal: GitHub Pages assumes you're using Jekyll unless you tell it otherwise. Quinn walks you through how to host Eleventy on Github Pages.

• Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices With CSS by Stephanie Stimac: With the announcement of Google's Pixel Fold, Stephanie revisits what technologies are available for designing and developing experiences that adapt to a foldable device.

• Machine Learning Zoomcamp: A Free Course on ML Engineering: A free, hands-on course on building, evaluating, and deploying machine learning systems.

• Ghost in the Machine directed by Valerie Veatch: The documentary traces the origins of "AI" and excavates the cultural, political, and philosophical drivers behind a worldwide "AI" boom.