Senior Software Engineer
Published on November 20, 2024
ActBlue is a nonprofit tech organization working to help Democratic campaigns, progressive organizations, and nonprofits build campaigns fueled by small-dollar donors.
We set the bar high for ourselves. Every day we handle tens of thousands of contributions from small-dollar donors. That’s our nonprofit mission in action. And it wouldn’t be possible without a collaborative work environment that values professional growth and innovation.
Each department uses modern best practices with a dash of elbow grease and teamwork to get the job done. Our tech team uses Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Node.js combined with excellent test coverage and efficient code to develop the software that powers ActBlue.
WHO WE ARE:
ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact in order to fuel long-term, people-powered change. If you’ve ever given online to a Democrat or progressive organization, chances are you’ve used our powerful online fundraising platform.
We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and help thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations — build grassroots movements. We envision a democracy where everyone looking to make progressive people-powered change can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to shape our country and futures. Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
As a Senior Software Engineer at ActBlue, you will help shape the growth of our platform by working to improve ActBlue’s core systems, primarily our donation forms. In this role, you will perform front-end and full-stack work on a product team focused on growth and conversions. You will work in concert with other product teams, data teams, platform and ops teams, and the security team. Together with other stakeholders, you will identify and execute high-impact improvements that unlock new product opportunities and ensure the reliability, predictability, maintainability, and scalability of our platform.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Work with your team to architect, refactor, and improve our core systems in order to facilitate the delivery of features within our donor-facing contribution forms and admin-facing form creation flow.
- Guide the design and execution of technical solutions that prioritize the highest impact opportunities, balanced against effort, scope, and other trade-offs.
- Collaboratively develop and champion best practices and design patterns to improve the maintainability of the platform.
- Demonstrate technical leadership by writing excellent documentation, establishing effective monitoring, and fostering clear and audience-oriented communication.
- Grow as an individual and increase your impact on the success of your team and the progressive movement with support from your manager.
- Offer coaching and mentorship to other engineers and solicit it from them in turn. Uphold a culture where individuals are valued, heard, and engaged.
- Make yourself available to support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards.
WHAT YOU BRING:
- 3-5+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience executing large projects that involve multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity.
- Experience in React, Redux Ruby on Rails, as well as in developing and maintaining server-side web applications.
- Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders and to collaboratively translate business requirements and strategic goals into technical solutions.
- A strong track record of delivering results that achieve business/organizational objectives.
- A deep understanding of industry practices that contribute to quality code delivery; familiarity with Cypress and other testing suites.
- Ability to write technical proposals that clearly articulate risks and trade-offs.
- A track record of effective collaboration with other engineers to develop abstractions and patterns that make it easy to build reliable, maintainable software.
- Eagerness to explore and refactor legacy code.
- A team player mentality. You keep the end user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates, yet know when and how to defend your own ideas in a respectful manner.
- Comfort collaborating with a distributed team of many remote colleagues.
- An inclusive, generous working style: You like to elevate your team by mentoring, collaborating with, and supporting your peers.
- Excitement for yourself and your teammates to learn and grow.
- A thorough understanding of performance, scalability, and security concerns.
LOCATION AND COMPENSATION:
This posting is for a full-time, remote, salaried position. Travel may be required on a limited basis to attend all-staff and departmental retreats (1-2 times per year). Additional travel may be required for select positions. ATS is currently authorized to support remote work employees in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C. and Wisconsin.
Salary Range Details:
Salary Range: $157,791 - $170,499 - $183,207
ActBlue is committed to consistent compensation practices across our organization. Final salary offers will take into account factors such as candidate experience, interview performance and current team salary parity.
BENEFITS:
- Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
- Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
- Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
- Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
- Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
- A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
- Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
- Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times
ActBlue is unable to sponsor work visas at this time.
Work Location: This is a full-time, remote, salaried position.
Work Schedule: This role requires availability during established, regular business hours (Mon-Fri) and is expected to be a part of an on-call rotation which will result in working nontraditional hours as needed.
Travel Requirements: Travel may be required on a limited basis to attend all-staff and departmental retreats (1-2 times per year). Additional travel may be required for select positions.
Work Environment: At ActBlue, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and belonging remote-first culture that empowers our diverse workforce to excel in their roles. Employees can expect to work with distributed teams across all U.S. time zones. Our roles require extended technology usage, and proficiency with virtual communication tools such as Zoom and Slack. Regular attendance in virtual meetings is inherent to every position.
Bargaining Unit: The terms and conditions of this position are subject to a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America, the exclusive bargaining agent of covered ActBlue Technical Services employees.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.
INCLUSION STATEMENT:
ActBlue is deeply committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity. We commit to retaining, developing, recruiting, and hiring a diverse staff community. We honor the dignity of all. We celebrate their unique qualities. And we recognize the wide range of human differences, backgrounds, and intersectional identities that enrich the workspace and help us better meet our mission. If you feel a connection to our mission and see your interests reflected in this job description we encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet every requirement.
ActBlue is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the interview and employment process, including using our online system to apply for a position. If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at recruitment@actblue.com to get started.
*ActBlue will never ask candidates to buy equipment, nor will we email from anything other than an actblue.com or actbluetech.com email address.