Senior Director of Engineering

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October 21

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Swing Left

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Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Swing Left is an organization dedicated to mobilizing grassroots volunteers to support Democratic candidates and causes across the United States. By fostering community engagement and organizing efforts, Swing Left empowers individuals to take action through initiatives such as canvassing, writing letters, and making phone calls to influence elections and promote democratic values. The organization plays a vital role in helping its community work towards regaining political power and making a difference in crucial elections.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Seed Round on 2019-07

📋 Description

• The engineering team designs, builds, and maintains the technical infrastructure that powers Swing Left and Vote Forward’s programs, ensuring our digital tools effectively support volunteer action and organizational goals • The Senior Director of Engineering leads this team in implementing software solutions across swingleft.org, votefwd.org, and related platforms—developing reliable, scalable code and managing integrations with grassroots organizing tools and data providers • The Senior Director of Engineering collaborates closely with product, analytics, and program teams to drive the product development lifecycle, support experimentation, and continuously improve user experiences • Oversee the creation of technical strategy and architecture for the organization’s engineering infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, and security • Develop proactive capacity and resourcing plans to support the organization’s current and future engineering needs, manage the hiring of new engineers, and onboard engineering contractors (where required) to supplement capacity • Foster a cohesive, healthy, and high-performing engineering team culture, including the adoption of best practices for the software development lifecycle • Collaborate with the product team on the product roadmap by understanding relevant internal and external technical needs and how to solve them with working, high-quality, scalable software that is aligned with organizational infrastructure • Lead the technical implementation of the product development lifecycle to ship high-quality, well-tested code; oversee prioritization of tactical backlogs and estimation of technical scopes of work for large projects • Act as the organization’s lead engineering representative for relationships with key partners, including those involved in Ground Truth • Proactively identify and mitigate technical and operational risks, including through continuous monitoring of health metrics and alerts for our platforms • Lead the technical aspect of organizational rapid-response efforts as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• A strong interest in and alignment with the distinct missions and values of Swing Left and Vote Forward • At least eight years of experience in software engineering and development • At least five years of experience in an engineering management role • Experience supporting data analysis in close collaboration with data analysis or data science experts • Experience overseeing website development and maintenance using cloud services such as Google Cloud and AWS, web hosting platforms like Vercel and Heroku, and web frameworks such as React-Query and Next.js • Experience writing, reviewing, and debugging programs in multiple programming and scripting languages such as Javascript (Node.js), Python, and HTML • Experience creating and implementing sustainable processes for delivering usable, readable, and maintainable code with robust automated testing • Experience with database management, access, and operation using SQL (or similar languages) • Experience with modern data engineering tools and frameworks such as Fivetran, Airbyte, Snowflake, DBT, Dagster, or Lightdash • Experience with tools and platforms that are commonly used within the progressive tech ecosystem (such as NGP VAN / EveryAction, ActionKit, and ActBlue) is a plus • Experience with using large language models to extract insights from unstructured datasets is a plus • Ability to lead a distributed team and collaborate effectively across functions in a virtual workplace • Commitment to equity and belonging across all identities, including but not limited to race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ability; ability to hear, reflect, act on, and learn from feedback related to identity and equity.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance: 100% of the premium paid for employees and 50% for dependents • Health and dependent care FSA accounts • Employer-paid life and disability insurance • Retirement plan • Professional development, remote work and technology stipends • An unlimited time-off policy + a flexible medical and parental leave policy • Our office is closed for approximately 25 business days each year (including federal holidays)