Plura (formerly Bloom Community)
The social app for edge-of-culture communities
Senior Engineer & Tech Lead
About the role
Plura is hiring a full stack Senior Engineer / Tech Lead to provide technical leadership while staying deeply hands-on with feature development. This is a role for someone who thrives in early-stage environments, balancing execution with systems thinking. You’ll oversee one junior engineer, but the role is primarily about building, scoping, and ensuring quality engineering work.
Plura is built in React Native and Typescript running on a Node.js server and PostgreSQL.
Your primary responsibilities will be:
Build and ship product features
- Develop, launch, and maintain core app features end-to-end, from development through release
- Conduct code reviews, manage releases, and ensure engineering best practices
- Run and refine testing processes to keep the app stable and high-quality
- Identify and implement new coding solutions and processes using LLMs and AI tools
Support analytics and dashboards
- Consolidate existing analytics tools into a more streamlined setup
- Design and build dashboards to track progress against Plura’s key objectives
- Surface data insights that guide product and growth decisions
Drive engineering-led problem solving
- Review user engagement and usage data to identify patterns worth addressing
- Scope solutions, seek team input, and lead implementation of engineering fixes
- Improve tech workflows (sprints, reviews, tooling) to accelerate the team’s impact
What kind of person would succeed in this role?
- Experienced (8+ year eng) - able to get themselves unstuck in any situation
- Flexible - the role may change over time as AI systems evolve, the asks may change, but they’re able to roll with the punches
- Self-motivated/self-directed - independent productivity while working remotely is never an issue for them
This is a part-time position, starting around 20 hours per month, designed for a fully remote team member.
About Plura
Plura is the social app for edge-of-culture communities that helps you meet people organically through shared events. We collaborate with event organizers whose events facilitate connection and community. These groups are often at the boundary of culture, exploring new ways to connect authentically, approaching life with a learning mindset, and creating a more community-minded future. In Plura’s app, you can discover events, become Buds with people, and join community conversations. Plura is a queer woman-led company known for its strong consent culture and inclusive approach. Join us to explore, learn, and grow with like-minded people and create a more liberated and open world. You are welcome here.
About Plura (formerly Bloom Community)
Bloom (formerly Together) is a Y Combinator backed startup based in Oakland, CA on a mission to use software to bring people together. Bloom is a dating community that organizes group dates in parks. Members tell us who they want to meet and then we organize 6-8 person meetups in parks. And, with a strong consent culture and referral-based community, we're the safest place to meet new partners and friends.
The team is Lauren Vegter, Aubrey Tull, and Dan Rhodes. Lauren spent 5 years at Facebook, most recently leading viral user growth for Instagram from 700M to past a billion users in two years. Aubrey has ten years of engineering experience from Stripe, Twilio, and Netflix. Dan is a former YC founder and was the first engineer at Atrium.
We recently launched and are seeing so much demand that we need to add additional engineering support. We are looking for an experienced full-stack engineer who is excited about using software to connect people and joining us on this wild startup adventure. Our app is built in React Native and Typescript running on a Node.js server and PostgreSQL. The role would be a contract to start with potential to convert to full-time. Candidates must be available to start immediately. We are based in Oakland, CA but candidates can live anywhere.