Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join ActBlue as a Senior Software Engineer II and contribute to the growth of our online fundraising platform. This remote role focuses on back-end and database query performance improvements. You will collaborate with various teams to identify and implement high-impact enhancements, ensuring system reliability and scalability. Responsibilities include leading projects, enhancing product performance, mentoring engineers, and architecting core systems. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and SQL optimization, along with strong leadership and collaboration skills. ActBlue offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years, or equivalent, of professional experience working with teams and delivering projects
• Experience leading the execution of large projects involving multiple engineers, and complex and ambiguous requirements
• Experience in Ruby on Rails, React, and PostgreSQL as well as significant experience developing and maintaining server-side web applications
• Experience optimizing SQL database queries to improve performance and maximize efficiency
• Track record of collaborating effectively with fellow engineers to develop abstractions and patterns that make it easy to build reliable software
• Eagerness to explore, refactor, and optimize legacy code
• Team-oriented mindset, receptive to feedback, and skilled in constructive idea exchange. You keep the end user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates
• Comfortable working with a distributed team of remote colleagues
• Expertise in addressing performance, scalability, and security considerations

Responsibilities

• Guide and spearhead projects while collaborating with software engineers, product, and design to develop new features that provide actionable data to fundraising staff of political campaigns, progressive nonprofits, and more
• Enhance product performance, with a focus on improving the experience of users who fundraise at a large scale. This includes improving database query performance, as well as work to surface new information
• Work across the stack using PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, and GraphQL in your daily work
• Mentor and support engineers in improving their data insights skills, including SQL, ActiveRecord, and data visualizations
• Architect, refactor, and improve our core systems using well-accepted design patterns in order to facilitate the delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable features
• Guide the design and execution of technical solutions, prioritizing high-impact opportunities while balancing effort, scope, and other trade-offs
• Advise and design data structures and APIs to support new features and refactors
• Demonstrate technical leadership through writing documentation, establishing effective monitoring, and fostering clear and audience-oriented communication
• Improve platform performance and maintainability through quality code, testing, monitoring, and documentation
• Ensure product and feature quality through thorough PR reviews and QA testing
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture aligned with our values

Preferred Qualifications

• An inclusive, generous working style: You like to mentor, collaborate, and elevate your team by supporting your peers
• Passion for personal and team growth

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