Senior Software Engineer I, Community Building

ActBlue • Boston, MA

1d • $157,791 - $183,207 • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer I, you will be a key contributor on a newly formed team focused on building innovative fundraising tools. Working full-stack with Wordpress, PHP, React, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails, you’ll develop scalable, user-centric solutions that enhance donor engagement and streamline contributions. Your work will directly impact thousands of users, helping to shape the future of digital fundraising and empower fundraisers to drive meaningful change.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years, or equivalent, of professional experience working with teams and delivering projects.
• Experience with Wordpress, PHP, 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.
• 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.
• An inclusive and empathetic working style in a remote and distributed work environment.
• 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 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.
• 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

Nice To Haves

• You have experience with relational fundraising or donor engagement strategies.
• You are proficient with Postgres.
• You have experience working collaboratively with product managers and product designers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers, product, and design to develop new features that provide actionable data to fundraising staff of political campaigns, progressive nonprofits, and more.
• Work across the stack using Wordpress, PHP, Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL in your daily work.
• Design products and systems with performance in mind so all users have a great experience.
• 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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed