ActBlue
nonprofit
StaffSoftwareEngineer,ExtensibilityandIntegration
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“Staff Software Engineer, Extensibility and Integration at ActBlue. Skills: Extensibility, Integrations, Data Exchange, API Design. Architect database modernization efforts. Lead design of scalable data solutions”
What You'll Achieve.
fuel long-term, people-powered change; seamlessly integrate and manage contribution data; advancing our reporting and integration capabilities; crafting a seamless experience; power sophisticated integrations and data exchange; boost product performance; solidifying the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our systems; enhance ActBlue's data and reporting tools; meeting the immediate needs of our users; reinforcing the technological infrastructure
Industry & Context.
strategic thinking; technical tradeoffs; system-level improvements; defensive consistently debugging; finding root cause or viable workarounds
ActBlue is unable to sponsor work visas at this time, subject to a collective bargaining agreement
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6-8 years of relevant professional experience, demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership for multi-quarter initiatives, experience in developing and maintaining large monolithic server-side web applications, making changes to APIs to carry features to completion, Deep understanding of performance, scalability, and security best practices, Experience designing and integrating with third-party APIs, building extensible systems that support diverse downstream toolsets and data consumers, Experience designing frameworks, consistently debugging the toughest issues throughout the stack, effective collaboration with engineers to develop abstractions and patterns, Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders, collaboratively translate business requirements and strategic goals into technical solutions, Experience coaching engineers on coaching and mentoring, fostering a culture of delivering specific praise and constructive feedback, contributes holistic solutions in post-mortems, An inclusive, generous working style
Nice to Have
experience with and an understanding of the entire technological ecosystem, Eagerness to explore and refactor legacy code, modifying communication style to fit the audience, providing coaching and guidance to multiple team members, anticipating where your intervention would be helpful
What You'll Do.
Architect database modernization efforts
Lead design of scalable data solutions
Lead technical execution of initiatives
Break down initiative-level work
Tackle database performance
Serve as technical consultant
Advocate for monitoring systems
Demonstrate technical leadership
Coach and mentor engineers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner closely with product, design, and cross-functional teams; working with multiple engineers; engineers across teams; collaboration with engineers; collaboratively translate business requirements; elevate your team by supporting your peers
Communication Scope
clear and audience-oriented communication; communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders; modifying communication style to fit the audience
Process & Methodology
multi-quarter initiatives, initiative-level work, roadmap prioritization
Full Job Description
WHO WE ARE: ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact in order to fuel long-term, people-powered change. If you’ve ever given online to a Democrat or progressive organization, chances are you’ve used our powerful online fundraising platform. We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and help thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations — build grassroots movements. We envision a democracy where everyone looking to make progressive people-powered change can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to shape our country and futures. Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission. THE OPPORTUNITY We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Extensibility and Integrations team. In this pivotal role, you'll provide technical leadership for multi-quarter initiatives in the dynamic world of digital fundraising — enabling fundraising administrators to seamlessly integrate and manage contribution data across their diverse toolsets. You'll be instrumental in developing an intuitive, self-managed suite of tools, advancing our reporting and integration capabilities, and crafting a seamless experience for fundraising administrators across our platform. Working full-stack with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React, and TypeScript, you'll architect systems and establish technical foundations that power sophisticated integrations and data exchange. You'll partner closely with product, design, and cross-functional teams to identify and execute key improvements that boost product performance while solidifying the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our systems. Your innovative approach to extensible solutions will enhance ActBlue's data and reporting tools — meeting the immediate needs of our us
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