Software Engineer II (React, JS/Typescript)

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 Software Engineer II 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 (front-end leaning) using React, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails to build user-facing features. These features will connect donors with causes and campaigns, improve our events experience, offer merchandise to campaign supporters, and unlock new payment methods on our platform. 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:

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other software engineers to build robust user experiences across several web applications used by campaigns and organizations on ActBlue
• Practice and encourage a people-focused engineering mentality when working cross-functionally
• Improve the performance and maintainability of our platform through quality code, comprehensive testing and monitoring, and effective documentation
• Engage with and contribute to technical discussions around new solutions and architecture
• Receive support from your teammates, your manager and other senior leaders to grow as an individual and increase your impact within ActBlue and the progressive movement
• Be a champion for building a collaborative and inclusive team culture
• May support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards

WHAT YOU BRING:

• 2-4+ years or equivalent of professional experience working with teams and delivering projects, ideally in a front-end leaning, full-stack capacity (60-70% front-end, 30-40% back-end)
• 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.
• A track record of delivering features while collaborating with product and design to resolve ambiguity and prioritize the highest impact work
• A demonstrated ability to write extensible, maintainable, and scalable code
• An inclusive and empathetic working style in a remote and distributed work environment
• An eagerness to learn and grow your skills as an engineer for all parts of the stack, including legacy code
• A passion for software and ActBlue’s mission to build people-powered movements
• A team player mentality: You keep the end-user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates

 

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.