About the PositionDo you thrive in inclusive, thoughtful environments where engineers hold themselves to high standards of technical excellence, ownership, and impact at scale?
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and evolving the systems and services that power the Organizer platform. You'll tackle complex technical challenges, help shape architectural decisions, and play an important role in keeping our backend systems reliable, scalable, maintainable, and secure as we grow.
Your impact will go beyond the code you write. You'll own problems from discovery through production, partnering closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to turn ideas and requirements into thoughtful, effective solutions. You'll also have opportunities to share your expertise and help raise the technical effectiveness of the engineers around you.
Job Level P4
What You'll Do- Own outcomes, not just implementation: Understand the problem being solved and remain engaged through deployment and production;
- Exercise technical judgment: Evaluate alternatives, identify tradeoffs, and recommend solutions appropriate to the problem rather than automatically choosing the most sophisticated approach;
- Handle ambiguity: Identify missing information, ask the right questions, and move work forward when a solution has not already been defined;
- Think beyond your immediate changes: Consider how decisions affect system reliability, maintainability, other services, and future engineering work;
- Raise the effectiveness of the team: Share context, provide useful feedback, mentor others, and improve engineering practices;
- Communicate early: Surface risks, uncertainty, dependencies, and changing assumptions before they become delivery problems; and
- Leave systems better than you found them: Look for opportunities to improve reliability, documentation, testing, observability, and developer experience while delivering product work.
Requirements- Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining backend software in production environments;
- Strong understanding of software design principles and the ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs;
- Proven experience designing and maintaining APIs (e.g., GraphQL), distributed services, and data-intensive applications;
- Proven experience debugging complex problems across services, infrastructure, and data;
- Strong understanding of relational and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB), including data modeling and query performance;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills;
- Proven experience collaborating effectively across Engineering, Product, and other disciplines;
- Familiarity with incident management and logging, monitoring, and observability in production environments;
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and modern deployment environments;
- Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership in team settings;
- Experience building modern JavaScript/TypeScript solutions; and
- Experience working with event-driven or distributed architectures (e.g., AWS).
Nice to Haves- Formal degree optional; we welcome candidates from nontraditional or retraining paths;
- Full-stack or open-source contributions;
- Security and privacy-conscious system design;
- Experience planning and executing database migrations and large-scale data operations;
- Experience using AI tools/workflows; and/or
- Experience in civic-tech, nonprofit, or data-driven social-impact products.
Talented Senior Software Engineers come from all walks of life and career. If you are passionate about civic engagement and technology, please apply, even if you do not check every box!
BenefitsLocation and CompensationThe Senior Software Engineer is a full-time, salaried position with a comprehensive benefits package (detail below), open to candidates anywhere in the United States.
The starting salary for this position is $190,576. We set compensation using market data and apply it consistently across the organization to ensure fairness and transparency for everyone in similar roles.
Our Culture of CareWe work hard to create a culture of care to ensure that our staff are best equipped to lead happy, healthy, and balanced lives. To that end, we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes:
- Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members;
- Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match;
- A flexible unlimited PTO plan;
- Generous paid parental leave;
- Pre-tax commuter benefits;
- A company laptop;
- A flexible remote work environment;
- A home office setup stipend for all new employees;
- Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses;
- A yearly professional development fund;
- Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help;
- Yearly in-person staff retreats; and
- A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
