Our Mission
Position Development is a worker-run software development company, with a focus on independent media, cultural institutions and socially minded organizations.
Our core business idea is that by organizing a team specialized in the needs of independent and radical media, and by being worker run, we can efficiently serve the software needs of the organizations that we care about in a way that focuses on their goals.
Our Clients
Our Services
We carefully pair high-end technology services to the requirements and reality of our clients' day to day operation. We study their needs and create unique systems and processes to make sure their objectives are met.
Front and Backend Development
Automated Testing and Deployment
Ecommerce and Fulfillment
Legacy Applications
Technical Strategy
Our Tech
Languages
Ruby, Java, Haskell, SQL, Javascript, Python
Databases
Postgresql, MySQL, Redis
Services
AWS, Heroku, Stripe, Braintree
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Our Team
Matt Raibert
Matt’s software philosophy is to stay focused on identified business needs and to avoid spending time on over-engineered solutions. He and his team craft understandable, maintainable code that does what it needs to do. He has developed skill at this over a 10 year career in the software industry serving a variety of happy clients.
In his work as a consultant for Cyrus, Matt experienced first-hand the value of highly agile, collaborative, and democratic software development teams. In 2014 he co-founded Position Development with the mission of making a more democratic company.
Through his network of leftist and progressive media makers, Matt has developed a niche for Position as the foremost provider of ecommerce and custom web-application development for independent media.
Libby Horacek
Libby is a software developer with an interest building excellent, sustainable technical infrastructure for growing organizations. Born and raised in West Virginia, she didn’t find much support there for her interests in software and social justice. In 2014, she received a grant to study at the Recurse Center in Manhattan and moved to NYC.
At Recurse Center, Libby studied functional programming. After RC, she joined The Learning Collective, a group of activists teaching each other to create software for power-distant publics. At TLC, she met Daniel Patterson, then a worker-owner at Position, who encouraged her to apply to work with Position. Libby has also spoken at conferences and technical meetups including Allied Media Conference, !!Con, AlterConf DC, and Haskell Users Group, and is on the leadership committee for the MergeSort NYC feminist hackerspace.
Cassie Moy
Cassie’s priority is writing high quality software for organizations doing important work. She works mostly in Ruby and Rails, and is currently interested in creative coding and generative lit. In her free time, she volunteers for Coalition for Queens and Girl Develop It.
Previously, she worked as a web developer in the financial sector, building internal tools for financial institutions. Cassie first became interested in programming while she was studying public policy and English at the University of Chicago. Cassie started at Position Development as an apprentice in 2015.
David Hartunian
David is a programmer who enjoys working on user-facing software and collaborating closely with clients.
Over the course of 8 years in the industry, David gained experience solving problems through software for finance and education. He most recently spent 3 years building educational technology software at Knewton where he was involved in all aspects of technical planning and implementation including data modeling, user research, and frontend design.
David loves working at Position because he enjoys supporting the work of its clients and being part of its strongly collaborative culture.
Rachel Rosenfelt
Rachel is the Project Manager at Position Development. She brings domain-knowledge to the team as the founder and publisher of The New Inquiry, founding faculty member of the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism MA program at the New School University, and Creative Director of Verso Books.
Daniel Patterson
Daniel was a worker-owner of Position before he left to study at Northeastern University.
Remeike Forbes
Remeike is Position's godfather.