Senior Software Engineer I

Summary

Join ActBlue's Payments team as a Senior Software Engineer I and contribute to building cutting-edge technology that powers Democratic victories and progressive causes. This remote, full-time role involves designing, developing, optimizing, and maintaining payment-related software systems. You will collaborate with other engineering teams, leverage frontend and backend development expertise (React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq), and work on large-scale projects. The position requires strong technical leadership, collaboration skills, and a commitment to building secure, scalable, and reliable software. ActBlue offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Experience executing on large projects involving multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity
• Experience in development languages as well as significant experience developing and maintaining server-side web applications
• A track record of effective collaboration with other engineers to develop abstractions and patterns that make it easy to build reliable 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 mentor, collaborate, and elevate your team by supporting your peers
• Excitement for the learning and growth of yourself and your teammates
• An 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 secure, scalable, and reliable features
• Guide the design and execution of technical solutions that prioritize the highest impact opportunities while balancing effort, scope, and other trade-offs
• Collaboratively design and champion best practices and design patterns to improve the maintainability of the platform
• Demonstrate technical leadership through writing documentation, establishing effective monitoring, and fostering clear and audience-oriented communication
• Receive support from your manager to grow as an individual and increase your impact on the success of your team and the progressive movement
• May support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards

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