- Remote
- Posted 4 months ago
Purism is seeking to rapidly expand PureOS applications. This position is important for the long-term goal of making security, privacy, and freedom respecting software more appealing.
This role is one that will focus on PureOS curating and adding flatpaks as well as progressive-web-apps into PureOS and be available in the PureOS Store.
Scope of Work
We are looking for a team member with experience and a passion for application packaging to create a curated app discovery and install process for users.
Primary objectives:
- Application packaging (debs and flatpaks)
- Curation policy maintainer and implementation of that policy
- Manual reviewing of applications against the policy
- Scripting to automate packaging
- Quality control of application packaging and customer experience
- Payments processing for paid applications.
Secondary objectives:
- Being comfortable working asynchronously and via written instruction with freedom respecting tools like email, gitlab, and matrix chat.
- Previous experience in free/libre software is not required, but a willingness to engage in ethical software development is.
Some details for applying
Please use this template as your email:
- Subject line: “PureOS Packaging Developer – your_name_here”
- What are you good at?
- How you got good at it?
- Why would you like to be involved with Purism
Please note that it will take some weeks for us to review applicants and get back to you.