Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join ActBlue's Payments team as a Senior Software Engineer II and contribute to building secure, scalable, and reliable payment systems. You will architect, refactor, and enhance core systems, recommend system improvements, and act as a consultant for system-level issues. This role involves designing high-impact technical solutions, leading large projects, and fostering a culture of defensive testing. You will collaborate with other engineers, champion best practices, and mentor junior team members. The position is full-time, remote, and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5-7 years or equivalent of professional experience working with teams and delivering projects
• Experience leading the execution of 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

• Architect, refactor, and enhance core systems to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable feature delivery
• Recommend system-level improvements to address security, scalability, and reliability concerns
• Act as a go-to consultant for guidance on system-level issues
• Guide the design and execution of high-impact technical solutions while balancing effort, scope, and trade-offs
• Design frameworks to foster a culture of defensive testing within Engineering
• Lead the execution of large projects involving multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity
• Break down initiative-level work into multiple epics and contribute technical expertise to team roadmap prioritization
• Consistently debug the toughest issues throughout the stack, regardless of the environment, identifying root causes or viable workarounds
• Collaboratively design and champion best practices and design patterns to improve platform maintainability
• Demonstrate technical leadership through writing documentation, establishing effective monitoring, and fostering clear communication
• Set the standard for software quality through maintainable code that adapts to future design and roadmap decisions
• Coach and mentor other engineers, creating spaces where individuals feel engaged, valued, and heard
• Engage with your manager as a thought partner on core work and personal development to increase your impact on the team and the organization
• 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