Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join ActBlue as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the growth of our online fundraising platform. You will work on improving core systems, primarily donation forms, performing front-end and full-stack development. Collaborate with various teams to identify and implement high-impact improvements, ensuring platform reliability and scalability. This remote, full-time position requires 3-5+ years of relevant experience in React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, and server-side web application development. You will demonstrate technical leadership, collaborate effectively, and contribute to a positive team environment. ActBlue offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to professional growth.

Requirements

• 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
• A thorough understanding of performance, scalability, and security concerns

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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