Senior Software Engineer

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 donor experiences in order to future-proof our platform. In this role, you will work full-stack using React, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails to build features to connect users with causes and campaigns, events, merch, and more. 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. The work you do on this team will be seen and felt by thousands of users across the country and the world.

Our engineering and product organization is made up of about 100 empathetic and passionate people. We’re organized into cross-functional teams that operate independently in alignment with the broader organizational goals. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Work with your team to architect, refactor, and improve donor and entity user experiences. 
• 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:

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience executing large projects that involve multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity.
• Professional experience working with React and TypeScript to develop frontend features from design and discovery through to deployment and monitoring.
• Professional experience working with Ruby on Rails to make changes to APIs in order to carry a feature to completion.
• 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 pos