Staff Engineer, Forms and Flows

Overview

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:

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join ActBlue and help us shape the growth of our contribution flow experience. In this role, you’ll focus on maintaining and expanding the primary donation path for users who contribute on ActBlue which encompasses landing on a new form, learning about a given cause or candidate, and being able to successfully and quickly donate to a candidate or cause. You’ll work closely with design and product partners to develop and refine accessible, scalable, and engaging features that make our contribution process as seamless as possible. The work you do on this team will be seen and felt by millions 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:

• Help set the standard for software quality on our team and for the organization at large by writing maintainable code that's adaptable to future design and roadmap decisions.
• Lead the process of architecting, refactoring, and improving our contribution forms and the myriad user flows that an ActBlue user might interface with.
• Guide the design and execution of technical solutions that prioritize the highest impact opportunities while balancing effort, scope, and other trade-offs.
• Partner with engineering managers to find sponsorship and growth opportunities for your colleagues.
• Demonstrate technical leadership by writing documentation, establishing effective monitoring, and fostering clear and audience-oriented communication.
• Coach and mentor other engineers on your team and create spaces for individuals to be engaged, valued, and heard.
• Receive support from your manager to grow as an individual and increase your impact on the success of your team and the progressive movement.

WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING WITH:

• Stack:
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Javascript
  • Ruby on Rails
  • GraphQL
• Tooling:
  • Yarn + Webpack
  • Typescript
  • ESLint/Prettier
• Hosting:
  • Heroku
  • Kubernetes
• Monitoring: 
  • Datadog
  • Bugsnag

WHAT YOU BRING:

• The ability to leverage your technical expertise not just to tackle the hardest problem in sight, but to empower, teach, and build systems of support that allow others to succeed.
• The experience of recommending system-level improvements related to security, scalability, and reliability –  and comfort acting as a go-to consultant on these matters for other engineers on the team.
• Fluency moving between and across technical systems and stacks – or at least a willingness to try! Our team focuses primarily on the front end, but a candidate for this role would ideally have experience with and an understanding of the entire technological ecosystem.
• Excitement for your own and your teammates’ learning and growth.
• An expert-level understanding of performance, scalability, and security concerns, especially as they relate to front-end code.
• A track record of effective collaboration with other engineers to develop abstractions and patterns that make it easy to build reliable software.
• Experience working closely with product and design teams to iterate on and refine product requirements, and the ability to take a long-term view when it comes to inevitable tradeoffs.
• Eagerness to explore and refactor legacy code – we’ve been doing this for a while now and could use an engineer who brings an empathetic but forward-thinking approach to working in an older codebase.
• An understanding of and a desire to co-create systems that help build psychological safety on the team: sharing learning with others, using peer review as an opportunity to celebrate and build others up, and a willingness to practice the duality of listening and leadership.

OUR ENGINEERING VALUES:

• We believe that ideas are more important than technologies.
• We understand that the tools we build have real-world consequences for millions of people and take that responsibility seriously.
• We know that code isn’t just a set of instructions for machines, but communication with other humans; style, elegance, and respect are important.
• We believe that an ability to balance paying off technical debt and rapidly completing a project contributes to the health of the codebase, engineering team, and organization.
• We believe that being correct isn’t enough; respect for your colleagues and users is fundamental.

Follow us on Twitter @ActBlue and our blog

LOCATION AND COMPENSATION:

This posting is for a full-time, remote, salaried position. ActBlue is currently authorized to support remote work employees in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin.

Salary Range: $191,679 (min) – $201,210 (mid) – $241,452 (max)

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
• Automatic 2% 401K contribution, plus up to 6% match
• Three months paid parental leave for all new parents, adoptions included; 4 weeks of a fully paid flexible work schedule; plus an additional one week of paid leave and an additional one week of flexible work schedule for every full year the employee has worked for ActBlue
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including monthly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times
• Prof dev budget

ActBlue is unable to sponsor work visas at this time.

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 and  celebrate each person’s  unique qualities. 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 for our online job application system. If you would like to request an accommodation when applying, please contact us at recruitment@actblue.com.

ActBlue is also 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.

*ActBlue will never ask candidates to buy equipment, nor will we email from anything other than an actblue.com or actbluetech.com email address.

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