Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join ActBlue's Supporter Engagement team as a Senior Software Engineer II and help enhance core donor experiences to boost retention. Working full-stack with React, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails, you'll build features connecting users with causes and campaigns. This role involves collaborating with designers, product managers, and engineers on large initiatives, leading technical solutions, and championing best practices. You'll mentor other engineers and contribute to a positive team environment. This is a full-time, remote, salaried position with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. ActBlue is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all qualified individuals.

Requirements

• 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 strong understanding of performance, scalability, and security best practices
• Experience executing large projects that involve multiple engineers, complex requirements, and ambiguity
• Ability to write technical proposals that clearly articulate risks and tradeoffs
• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders and to collaboratively translate business requirements and strategic goals into technical solutions
• A track record of working closely with product and design teams to iterate on and refine product requirements
• A track record of effective collaboration with other engineers to develop abstractions and patterns that make it easy to build reliable, maintainable software
• 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
• Excitement for the learning and growth of yourself and your teammates
• An inclusive, generous working style: you like to mentor, collaborate, and elevate your team by supporting your peers

Responsibilities

• Work with your team to architect, refactor, and improve donor user experiences
• Partner with designers and product managers to help shape the teams’ roadmap prioritization
• Be a technical lead in large initiatives, working with a team of engineers to design and execute technical solutions that prioritize the highest impact opportunities while balancing 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 through writing documentation, establishing effective testing and 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

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