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This Week in Effect - 2026-01-23
Hi Effecters!
Welcome back to This Week In Effect (TWIE) - your weekly update of the latest developments in the Effect community and ecosystem.
Effect is a powerful TypeScript library that helps developers build complex, synchronous, and asynchronous programs. One key feature that sets Effect apart is how it leverages structured concurrency to provide features such as async cancellation and safe resource management, making it easier to build robust, scalable, and efficient programs.
To get started, below you’ll find links to our documentation as well as our guide for installing Effect. Enjoy!
Recent major updates:
- Effect 3.19 Release.
- Effect AI SDK Release.
- Durable workflows in TypeScript with
@effect/workflow- currently in alpha. - The Effect community on Discord reached 6070+ members!
Here are all the technical changes from the past week.
- Fix Config.orElseIf signature (Bug Fix)
- Fix Array.flatten type inference loss (Bug Fix)
- Fix prototype comparison in Equal.ts (Bug Fix)
- Fix(opentelemetry): correct Span.addEvent 2-arg overload (Bug Fix)
- Feat(opentelemetry): add protobuf protocol support for OTLP exporters (Feature)
- Fix(opentelemetry): make sdk-trace-node and sdk-trace-web required peer deps (Bug Fix)
- Add rows and isTTY to Terminal (Features)
Don’t miss our upcoming Effect Berlin Meetup #2 🇩🇪 on January 29, and the newly announced Effect Paris Meetup #6 🇫🇷 on February 3.
To stay informed about future events, visit our Effect Community Events calendar and subscribe for updates.
- I wish I learned Effect sooner: The secret to production-grade Typescript by backpine labs.
- RcMap | Effect in 5(ish) by Lucas Barake.
better-pdf-reader- An open-source PDF and EPUB reader for developers featuring a command palette, reading timer, AI-friendly Markdown export, and OLAP analytics. Built with Effect, Next.js, and PDF.js with a local-first architecture. Project by BLANKSPACETS.
odata-effect- A fully tree-shakable OData V2/V4 client for SAP services built on Effect, featuring type-safe query building, batch requests, and SAP-specific error handling. Project by joepjoosten.
- Effect TS: The New Standard for Building Production APIs - A blog post by Type Driven exploring why Effect is becoming the preferred choice for production APIs, highlighting typed errors, built-in reliability features, dependency injection, and integrated observability.
- Building a Fault-Tolerant Web Data Ingestion Pipeline with Effect-TS - A practical guide on building predictable, fault-tolerant web data ingestion systems using typed errors, safe resource management, declarative retry logic, and composable pipelines.
- Hacking on Lalph - A Ralph-inspired AI agent orchestrator powered by Effect and Office Hours 12: Library Design, Error Modeling, Schema vs runtime errors, Effect 4.0 APIs are now on our YouTube Channel.
- Effect Office Hours 13 went live on Wednesday on X(Twitter)! The edited version will be on our YouTube channel soon.
- Max joined Tim to continue the work on Lalph - An AI Agent Orchestrator.
Don’t forget to listen to our Cause & Effect podcast hosted by Johannes Schickling and available on YouTube, X(Twitter), and audio platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcast.
We’ve published our seventh episode with Adam Rankin, CTO at Warp, who joined Johannes Schickling to talk about using Effect to bring structure and composability to a growing TypeScript codebase, enabling a small, fast-moving team to stay productive while shipping reliable payment & payroll systems.
More and more companies are adopting Effect in their projects. Here’s a list of companies looking for software engineers with Effect experience:
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14.ai: Founding engineer
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Betalyra, an AI consulting company from Portugal, is looking for a part-time freelance software engineer (TypeScript/Effect) with AI experience – see the job posting in the
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coteach.ai is looking for a Software Engineer – see the job posting in the
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Embedded Insurance is hiring for a Senior Software Engineering position.
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Expand.ai: Founding Engineer
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Freckle.io is hiring Platform Engineers with experience in Effect.
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Globe Commerce: Founding Product Engineer
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Goblins is looking for a Product Founding Engineer. See the job posting in the
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Heartbeat: Senior Software Engineer
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Interfere: Founding Product Engineer and Founding AI Engineer
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Introw: Staff Software Engineer
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Magentus: GenAI Solutions Engineer
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ManageSpace is looking for a Senior Developer to mentor other developers and migrate to Effect – see the job posting in the
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Margins: Product Engineer
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Medbill.ai: Founding Software Engineers (full-stack and backend)
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Microsub: TS Developer
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Oneiro Solutions: Software Engineer - Core Team. Join Effect Discord and DM leighman for further info.
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PhosPhor is hiring engineers experienced in Effect. You may also reach out to the Phosphor team on our Discord.
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Platonic Systems: Remote Effect Engineers
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Precurion looking for a remote‑first Founding Engineer with Effect experience – See the job posting in the
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Ressio: Senior full stack Engineer
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Samsung Food: Full Stack Developer
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Sellhub is looking for a Backend Engineer. See the job posting in the
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Software Intelligence Works: Senior Full-Stack Engineer
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spring.new, Anthropic’s flagship customer, is hiring engineers experienced in Effect. See the job posting in the
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Supermemory: Founding Backend / Infrastructure Engineer
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Superwall: Full-stack Mobile Developer
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Tenzir: Software Engineer (Product)
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Tranched: Full-stack Engineer Web3
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Vitalize Care is hiring a full-stack engineer with Effect experience: Full-Stack Engineer
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Wander is hiring Software Developers with experience in Effect.
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Warp is hiring a Product Engineer
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A consumer music startup hiring for an Effect Backend Consultant + a full-time role based in NYC. The job posting is available in the
#job-boardchannel on our Discord -
French-speaking startup team led by Stephan Le Dorze is looking for a freelancer to join them - see his LinkedIn post for more details.
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Job opening for Japanese-speaking developers
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Small SaaS team is looking for a part-time Effect Developer to implement Effect in their stack. The job posting is available in the
#job-boardchannel on our Discord, DM jonpage for further info. -
Solid is hiring its early engineering team (Bay Area). The job posting is available in the
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Stealth team looking for a software engineer with Effect experience – see the job posting in the
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Stealth team that has already scaled their product to 50K daily active users in the last year, is looking for Effect Developers. DM wireless on X for more info.
Disclaimer: Please note that these job postings are shared for informational purposes, and we encourage applicants to verify details directly with the hiring companies.
The Effect Merch Store offers a selection of Effect-branded items designed for the community. All orders are processed and fully managed through Printful.
Effect Merch is here! We’re excited to announce the launch of our Effect merch page! Grab your favorite swag & show your love for Effect in style! 🧢 effect.website/merch
That’s all for this week. Thank you for being a vital part of our community. Your feedback is highly valued as we fine-tune this format. Feel free to share your thoughts, and we’ll do our best to tailor it to the needs of our community.
Effect Community Team