Zed is a next-generation code editor that's engineered from scratch in Rust to be fast, elegant, and collaborative. As our community grows, so does our backlog of issues and feature requests. We're looking for talented developers to help us tackle these challenges by joining our team.
You'll be part of Zed's Open Source team who's responsible for triaging issues, communicating with our users, fixing critical bugs, working on features requested by the community, reviewing contributor pull requests, and more.
Key Responsibilities
- Work on fixing community issues and bugs
- Prioritize and implement features requested by the community
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Review and discuss pull requests, giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Participate in code reviews and collaborate with teammates and community members in real time
- Help improve our GitHub processes and tooling
- Optimize performance and user experience where necessary
Requirements
- Strong programming skills and problem-solving ability
- Proficiency in Rust and willingness to learn quickly
- Sufficient English proficiency for effective pair programming and communication with users
- Enthusiasm for open source and collaborative development
- User empathy and a strong desire to make Zed better for our users
Location: Remote (American or European time zones)
Skills Required
- Strong programming skills and problem-solving ability
- Proficiency in Rust and willingness to learn quickly
- Sufficient English proficiency for effective pair programming and communication with users
- Enthusiasm for open source and collaborative development
- User empathy and a strong desire to make Zed better for our users
Zed Industries Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zed Industries and has not been reviewed or approved by Zed Industries.
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Flexible Benefits — Fully remote work and work-from-anywhere options are standard. Flexible working hours provide autonomy over schedules.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO is offered, with encouragement to take time as needed. Time-off flexibility supports work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive health insurance is included as a core benefit. Health coverage is positioned as part of a premium benefits package.
Zed Industries Insights
What We Do
We’re Zed Industries, a small and passionate team with a vision for building the world’s best text editor—for you, and for your team. Zed isn’t our first editor. It’s the culmination of more than a decade of experience building tools for developers. We created the hackable text editor, Atom, and the pioneering software platform that launched an entirely new generation of desktop apps, Electron. We also built Tree-sitter, an advanced syntax parsing framework used by the most popular editors in the world. Building tools that matter is in our DNA. Now, we’re building something new again with that same drive and a new vision. We believe the best software is handcrafted, with unparalleled attention to detail. We believe software development is better when it’s a shared experience. We believe there’s a better way to write software—and this is just the start of the adventure.
