garden3d: Design Engineer (Part-Time)
Headquarters: New York City
URL: https://sanctuary.computer
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We are USB Club, and we are looking for a multi-faceted design engineer to help us push forward our sneaker net for designers, artists, DJs, writers, musicians, researchers, and engineers.
Responsibilities
Ideally, you are someone who can both design and code, with an acute understanding of the cultural, design, artist, music, and research spaces.
Product Roadmapping, Research & Strategy
USB Club offers a lot of opportunity and potential, including:
- The ability to access the network on the web in read-only or entry-level modes for folks who don't yet have their USB.
- The ability to bring your own USB or bless your existing USB with privileges to access the network and serve as a USB club key.
- The ability for artists to sell bespoke USBs with their own custom content, reaching their loyalists and superfans, and building back-channel secret networks to share their in-progress and impromptu work.
- Growing the platform into a cloud backup system for DJs and touring musicians to ensure that their work is well preserved.
- Building integrations with are.na and other knowledge graph platforms so that files saved on USB can be accessible everywhere and vice versa.
We see the product development and iteration of the next chapter of USB Club as one of the more exciting and expansive parts of this role. We have some opinions about where to start, but we expect the right person in this role to be someone who can build upon our vision and help realize their own ideas to the highest degree.
Product & Web Design
USB Club ships a MacOS desktop app and an iOS app that you can access when you own one of our USBs. You use the desktop app to share and collect files from other people, both onto your USB and more generally on the network. You can think of it like Limewire or a torrenting platform of the early 00’s—something that happens behind the scenes where culture moves silently.
Engineering
- Desktop: Electron app.
- iOS: Native app.
- Web: Vue (likely moving to Next.js soon).
- API: TypeScript on PostgreSQL.
- Tools: Retool, Typeform, and Airtable.
While we have the support of Sanctuary Computer when necessary, we’re hoping this individual can hold their own in the code and confidently ship production-grade features without much hand-holding.
Social, Posters, Campaigns & Messaging
A big part of USB Club is the posters, campaigns, and general messaging strategies that we put onto the internet. We aim to build culture around the network, treating the product not just as a utility, but as a space where culture happens behind the scenes.
Time & Compensation
- Rate: $40 - $75/hr (pending seniority and ability).
- Commitment: This is currently a part-time role (expected 20 - 25 hours/week for the next 2 - 3 months), though it will likely grow toward full-time.
How to Apply
We see this role as a good starter project for joining garden3d and working more closely with XXIX and Sanctuary Computer across all of our client projects. We would love to frame this as the start of a longer and more involved relationship.
If you’re interested in this role or others, please apply and select “USB Club Design Engineer.”
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