General Counsel

We're building a first of its kind developer platform that can be used to learn and practice programming, build and deploy applications, and share and discuss with a community of peers. We realize this is an ambitious plan, but we think it's high time someone built this. There is no good reason for the insane fragmentation in programming tools today -- someone learning to code needs to learn at least ten disjointed tools and platforms to do anything interesting with programming.

We're on a mission to make programming more accessible by building the best, simplest, and fastest coding environment. Replit is a place to not only learn and practice programming but also to collaborate and ship applications.

Note that the listed qualifications are mere approximations. If you're talented but don't really fit the requirements, please get in touch anyways.

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Position: General Counsel

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At Replit, we want to build a powerful, yet simple platform where anyone, anywhere, regardless of their background and access to expensive computers, can create and share websites, apps, software tools, and build businesses. Making programming simpler and more accessible will open up the internet economy to more people around the world.

Replit has products for people learning to code, schools and teachers, hobbyist programmers, and professional engineers at startups and large corporations. Replit is also building a platform for coders to share and distribute their apps, tools, and websites easily over the internet. You can think of Replit like YouTube for software + a powerful multiplayer coding editor + domain-specific tools for schools and businesses. And just like YouTube when we dramatically reduce the cost and increase the simplicity of sharing creations and reach people all around the world, there are complex legal, compliance, and policy needs.

Potential Roles & Responsibilities

* Build Replit's legal function & act as the company's legal representative

* Advise the leadership team on legal matters

* Communicate with external counsel

* Proactively comply with relevant laws & regulations (GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, COPPA, SOC 2, etc.)

* Craft & review strategy in response to any litigation

* Maintain legal documents and operations

* Establish Trust & Safety and content moderation policies on Replit (DMCA, phishing, abusive/obscene content, etc.)

* Manage intellectual property filings

* Manage sales contracting & privacy agreement process

* Work with engineering, security, product, support, and sales to build scalable processes

* Support evolving needs over time

Key Qualifications

* Prior experience in a legal role at a high-growth startup

* Law degree

* Systems thinking

* Can maintain your cool in a crisis

Bonus Points

* Experience at a social or creator economy business

* Experience at a developer tools company

* Know how to and enjoy coding

* Passion for education and making programming more accessible

Job Location:

Global (overlap 4 hours with US Pacific Time), San Francisco preferred

Ready to build the next big internet business and transform how people code?

Most of our time is spent building two core areas of our technology -- the IDE and the container infrastructure. We created the world's fastest and first server-rendered IDE. The IDE has a small functional core -- borrowing ideas from Redux -- everything is a plugin. This architecture allows us to build an adaptable IDE where it starts very simple and grows with the user as they learn more and require more features -- this is crucial for new programmers.

As for our infrastructure, we're building a new kind of computing platform: it's Serverless in that users don't have to care about the underlying resources, but it's not Serverless in that it's stateful. This way it's interactive, and since we're focused on newcomers, it's a much more natural programming model. We're also building a filesystem abstraction that allows your working directory to travel with your container between development and production and as it goes offline and online -- a persistent and versioned working directory.