Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NGP VAN is a leading technology platform for democratic and progressive causes, dedicated to advancing the technology that supports equality and justice. The ActionKit team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and maintain their codebase, contribute to product direction, and engage with clients to enhance their experience. This role involves collaboration across various functions, ensuring the quality and reliability of the product while supporting clients' needs.
Responsibilities
- Help develop and maintain ActionKit's codebase, from building brand new features to polishing, debugging, refactoring, or improving the efficiency or reliability of existing code
- Help shape the direction of the product by proposing ideas, collecting client feedback, and refining broad ideas into concrete plans, both in informal conversation and places like our issue tracker
- Work directly with clients through our email support system and sometimes other means like joining discovery calls; writing release notes; or participating in ClientCon, our yearly client summit
- Contribute as needed to other technical functions like operations, tooling, monitoring, performance tuning, and more-all engineers pitch in on these at ActionKit; no one just develops new features
- Work with teammates to accomplish all of the above (as we'll work to help you!) both by talking with each other day-to-day and through structured channels like code reviews and documentation
Skills
- Skills and judgment to produce high-quality work, from attention to detail in coding and testing to big-picture wisdom about risk and simplifying tricky plans
- Communication and collaboration skills. It's critical to be able to talk through tradeoffs, ask for the information you need to get up to speed, and make your work understandable to others
- Empathy with others' needs, from coworkers to clients
- Experience building database-backed web apps, especially using dynamic-language frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Django. Adjacent experience will be considered, too
- Experience with (or at) nonprofits or political groups
- Experience touching multiple aspects of a software business, such as development, design, cloud and database administration, support, releases, QA, sales, and management
- Experience with one or more of the specific technologies we use. ActionKit is written in Python using the Django framework, backed by a MySQL database, and hosted in AWS
Benefits
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being and growth - explore full details here.
- Compensation and benefits for this role apply to full-time employees in the United States and may vary based on local standards, laws and norms.
- Pay is determined by location, skills, experience, and education, and is one part of NGP VAN's total rewards package, which may also include bonuses, incentives, equity, and a comprehensive benefits program.
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