Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join ActBlue's AAA team as a Senior Software Engineer, II and play a crucial role in strengthening the organization's security infrastructure. You will focus on enhancing user authentication, access permissions, and critical systems to ensure user trust and data safety. This role involves designing and implementing Identity and Access Management solutions, leading initiatives to improve system resilience and security, and collaborating with various teams. You will leverage your expertise in Ruby on Rails and other technologies to develop intuitive features and reusable code patterns. Furthermore, you will mentor other engineers and contribute to a positive and supportive team environment. ActBlue offers a remote, salaried position with competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 6+ years experience in development, expertise in Ruby on Rails as well as significant experience developing and maintaining server-side web applications
• The ability to leverage your technical expertise not just to tackle the most challenging 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 for other team engineers
• Fluency moving between and across technical systems and stacks – or at least a willingness to try. (Our team focuses primarily on the back 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
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Help set the standard for software quality on our team and the organization by writing maintainable code adaptable to future design and roadmap decisions
• Demonstrate profound knowledge and experience in designing and implementing Identity and Access Management solutions, ensuring our users' data is guarded while facilitating business functions
• Lead initiatives aimed at enhancing the resilience, security, and availability of our Identity and Access Management application portfolio, which includes automating procedures, introducing innovative patterns, minimizing bespoke solutions, and fortifying the robustness and reliability of our systems
• Combine product and defensive engineering techniques to develop intuitive account management features and establish reusable code patterns to make security implementation straightforward and second nature for all engineers within our organization
• Guide the design and execution of technical solutions, prioritizing 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, 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
• Automatic 2% 401K contribution, plus up to 6% match
• Three months paid parental leave for all new parents (adoptions included4 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 include monthly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times
• Professional Development Budget