Software Engineer II

Summary

Join ActBlue's Internal Tools team as a Software Engineer II and contribute to the development and maintenance of our critical internal workflows. You will collaborate with engineers, product, and design teams to build new features for our payments product and internal tooling using technologies like Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. This remote, full-time position requires 3+ years of experience in web application development and expertise in either Ruby on Rails or React. You will be responsible for ensuring product quality, improving platform performance, and fostering a collaborative team culture. ActBlue offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to professional growth. The position is subject to a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America.

Requirements

• 3+ years or equivalent of professional experience working with teams and developing web applications
• Experience with either Ruby on Rails or React
• A track record of delivering features while collaborating with product and design to resolve ambiguity and prioritize the highest impact work
• A demonstrated ability to write extensible, maintainable, and scalable code
• Expertise and willingness to find creative ways to deliver value fast, focusing on MVPs, frequent deployments, scope negotiations, and demos
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability; desire and interest in helping your team deliver their roadmap and achieve the strategic outcomes of the work
• An inclusive and empathetic working style in a remote and distributed work environment
• An eagerness to learn and grow your skills as an engineer for all parts of the stack
• A passion for software and ActBlue’s mission to build people-powered movements

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers, product, and design to develop new components of our payments product and internal tooling
• Design products and systems with performance in mind so all users have a great experience
• In your daily work, you will use Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL across the stack
• Improve platform performance and maintainability through quality code, testing, monitoring, and documentation
• Ensure product and feature quality through thorough PR reviews and QA testing
• Engage with and contribute to technical discussions around new solutions and architecture
• Receive support from your manager to grow as an individual and increase your impact on the success of your team and the progressive movement
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture aligned with our values

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience working with payment processors, particularly Stripe
• You are proficient with Postgres
• You have experience working collaboratively with designers

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 healthcare 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 of 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 include quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times