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I've enjoyed it, but I'm pretty jaded by the usual stuff. A job with social impact--something that makes someone's life better--would be the right thing for me now.
Any thoughts on convenient ways to find these? Some sort of board or listing?
In the meantime you could volunteer as a programmer - it's a niche that is growing rapidly.
http://socialcoder.org (UK based but international)
Disclosure: I run it
It'd not software-specific, but they've got lot of "escape corporate life" jobs (with a focus on the UK).
I'm just saying.
Now, before you down vote me consider they have been instrumental in making knowledge accessible that generally just couldn't be found. They're likely to be on the leading of eliminating most traffic deaths with their self driving cars, and they're providing free Internet to the world with Loon.
Big and successful companies across the industry are doing great things and having amazing social impacts.
We've got jobs in medical research, green energy, and others.
I work for a public safety agency in Southern California and we have a medium size IT organization within it we have a small developer core that help design and build applications. These applications are used daily to save people's lives. It does not pay much but at the end of the day you go home knowing that the work you did helped saved someone's life. Not sure where you live but if you are interested, I can point…