Staff Software Engineer – Extensibility and Integration

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🌵 Arizona, California, +26 more states – Remote

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💵 $191.7k - $241.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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ActBlue

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2004

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $22M Series A on 2010-08

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization that provides digital fundraising tools and strategies to support impactful small-dollar donations. Focused on empowering donors and organizations, ActBlue facilitates grassroots fundraising, emphasizing community-driven financial support for political campaigns, nonprofits, and social causes. ActBlue is renowned for its platform that connects donors with Democratic candidates and organizations, aiming to make significant social change through small contributions. Established in 2004, ActBlue prioritizes effective digital donation solutions and is a pivotal player in political fundraising.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership for multi-quarter initiatives in digital fundraising • Enable fundraising administrators to integrate and manage contribution data across diverse toolsets • Develop a self-managed suite of tools and advance reporting and integration capabilities • Work full-stack with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React, and TypeScript • Architect systems and establish technical foundations for integrations and data exchange • Partner with product, design, and cross-functional teams to improve performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability • Architect and lead database modernization efforts and optimize large-scale systems • Design and implement scalable data solutions and robust APIs • Lead technical execution of large, cross-team initiatives and balance technical tradeoffs • Break down initiative-level work across epics and contribute to roadmap prioritization • Improve database performance, schemas, data retrieval, and vendor API integrations • Serve as a technical consultant on architecture, system design, extensibility, integrations, and data exchange • Establish monitoring, testing, documentation, and software quality standards • Address technical debt and support future scalability • Coach and mentor engineers and support professional development • Model effective feedback in code reviews and foster inclusive team environments

🎯 Requirements

• 6–8 years of relevant professional experience • Technical leadership for multi-quarter initiatives involving complex requirements, strategic thinking, and cross-team collaboration • Significant experience developing and maintaining large monolithic server-side web applications • Experience changing APIs to carry features to completion • Broad understanding of technology stacks and dependencies, impacts, needs, and risks • Expert understanding of performance, scalability, and security best practices • Experience designing and integrating third-party APIs and building extensible systems • Experience designing defensive testing frameworks and debugging complex issues across the stack • Track record of collaborating with engineers on reliable software abstractions and patterns • Willingness to explore and refactor legacy code • Ability to communicate technical concepts and translate business requirements into technical solutions • Experience coaching engineers and mentoring others • Ability to provide support during urgent situations and contribute holistic post-mortem solutions • Inclusive, collaborative, mentoring-oriented working style • Availability during regular Monday–Friday business hours • Participation in an on-call rotation, including nontraditional hours as needed • Proficiency with virtual communication tools such as Zoom and Slack • Must be able to work in the United States; ActBlue is unable to sponsor work visas

🏖️ 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 • Fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement for out-of-pocket expenses • Fully-paid short- and long-term disability • Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance • Voluntary supplemental life insurance option • Dependent and health care flexible spending account options • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits • Automatic 2% employer-paid 401(k) contribution • Up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions • Minimum of three months paid medical, family, and parental leave, including adoptions • Commuter or home-office benefits • $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees • Quarterly snack deliveries • Digital subscriptions to The Boston Globe and The New York Times • Limited travel to attend all-staff and departmental retreats (1–2 times per year)