Developer Advocate

About Tarteel

Tarteel was founded with one mission: to strengthen the relationship Muslims have with the Quran. This goal has been at the very heart of Tarteel since its creation, and we continue to strive to provide the proper tools to empower the Muslim ummah to better connect with the words of Allah SWT, nourishing their faith in doing so. Inspired by the Islamic Golden Age, we saw untapped potential in the area of religious technology. We built Tarteel to help Muslims improve their Quranic study using the best digital tools. The Quran is a journey, and Tarteel is your companion.

The Tarteel app has more than 20M downloads and is powered by our state of the art models. As a company we've established relationships with leading AI companies such as Nvidia, who has us as a featured customer: . We currently have a core team of 20 exceptionally talented individuals.

What we're looking for

Tarteel is building the tools and resources to support and accelerate the work of the next generation of Muslim developers. Our primary open source toolkit, Quranic Universal Library (QUL), provides developers with all the resources and assets they need to build Islamic applications and is currently used by 100s of apps serving millions of users around the world.

As a developer advocate, you’ll help developers make the most of QUL by providing them with guides, tutorials, and platform improvements that will help them utilize the resources to their full potential. You’ll encourage others to get involved in the ecosystem by administrating grants for project bounties, as well as champion those who have added value to the ecosystem.

You are someone that has strong communication skills, both oral and written, and ideally have existing experience working with developers. You should also be able to collect and provide feedback from external stakeholders and share them internally to help scope and prioritize our open source resources roadmap and development.

Responsibilities

• Design and administer a grants program. This will include writing and reviewing project proposals and selection/acceptance criteria, identifying ways to attract applicants, and keeping them in close contact during and after the grant period.
• Create technical content demonstrating how to quickly build real projects on top of Tarteel’s open source software (OSS), including blog posts, tutorials, and sample code.
• Identify and create documentation and functional changes that improve usability of QUL.
• Champion the community and highlight community members’ work.
• Evangelize Tarteel’s OSS and the broader ecosystem by creating content such as short posts and videos for distribution on X and other networked channels.
• Engage with developers through forums, social media, and webinars.
• Identify and prioritize resource gaps within the Islamic software ecosystem.
• Represent Tarteel at Muslim developer events and hackathons.
• Independently seek and discover novel opportunities for collaboration with other developers in the ecosystem and encourage their usage of and contribution to Tarteel’s OSS.
• Increase discoverability of Tarteel’s OSS, such as by making QUL the top repo when searching for “Quran” on GitHub.

Qualifications

• 2+ years working in a developer relations role or similar
• Fluent English Proficiency
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience creating digital content (videos, presentations, etc.)
• Familiarity with Github Issues and Projects
• Proficiency with a frontend-based framework for demos (React, React Native, Vue, etc.)
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment
• Availability for meetings from Monday to Thursday between 8am and 12pm Eastern

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Arabic Proficiency
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with open source software or large volunteer-driven projects
• Experience with AI-based tools for content generation and automation

Benefits

• Fully remote work - Work anytime, anywhere
• Dunya + Akhira — Islamic work week + Islamic Holidays and culture
• Unlimited time off with manager approval
• Yearly team retreats and off-sites
• Ability to work in your thobe/abaya or traditional clothes in the comfort of your own home
• Work directly with the core founding team, reporting to the CTO

Interview Process

Our interview process for this role consists of three stages:

1. 60-minute screener
2. 60-minute technical interview diving into more depth than the screener and also including a live coding problem
3. 60-minute culture fit interview focused on situational scenarios and personal perspectives