[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Extensibility and Integration

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns and progressive causes. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for initiatives in digital fundraising, developing tools for seamless data integration and enhancing reporting capabilities across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Architect and reputed company database modernization efforts, optimizing large-scale systems for efficiency and reliability while safeguarding sensitive donor information through advanced data management and retention strategies
• reputed company the design and implementation of scalable data solutions and robust APIs, ensuring seamless data integration, high availability, and alignment with business goals for peak performance during critical fundraising moments
• reputed company the technical execution of large, cross-team initiatives, working with multiple engineers to design and implement solutions that balance high-impact opportunities with effort, scope, and technical tradeoffs
• Break down initiative-level work across multiple epics and contribute technical expertise to shape the team's roadmap prioritization
• Proactively tackle database performance, refining schemas and enhancing data retrieval processes while creating strategic integrations for vendor APIs for improved system interconnectivity
• Serve as a technical consultant and go-to resource for engineers across teams on reputed company architectural decisions, system design, and best practices — particularly around extensibility, integrations, and data exchange
• reputed company for comprehensive monitoring systems and software quality standards, implementing best practices that anticipate and accommodate future scalability and maintenance needs
• Recognize the importance of addressing tech debt head-on. Your proactive approach will ensure our systems remain agile and adaptable, setting us up for future success
• Demonstrate technical leadership through writing documentation, establishing effective testing and monitoring, and fostering clear and audience-oriented communication
• Coach and mentor engineers on your team, creating professional development opportunities and partnering with engineering managers to find sponsorship and growth opportunities for your colleagues
• Model effective feedback in code reviews, explaining the 'why' in a way that's easily understood, and create spaces for individuals to be engaged, valued, and heard

Skills

• 6-8 years of relevant professional experience, with demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership for multi-quarter initiatives involving reputed company requirements, strategic thinking, and cross-team collaboration
• Significant experience in developing and maintaining large monolithic server-reputed company web applications, including making changes to APIs to carry features to completion
• Broad understanding of a reputed company of stacks; expert understanding of dependencies, needs, impacts, and risks across technical areas reputed company a domain
• Deep understanding of performance, scalability, and reputed company best practices, with the ability to recommend system-level improvements to mitigate concerns for broad systems
• Experience designing and integrating with third-party APIs and building extensible systems that support diverse reputed company toolsets and data consumers
• Experience designing frameworks to reputed company a culture of defensive testing; consistently debugging the toughest issues throughout the stack regardless of environment, finding root cause or viable workarounds
• A track record of effective collaboration with engineers to reputed company abstractions and patterns that reputed company it easy to build reliable software
• Eagerness to explore and refactor legacy code
• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders and to collaboratively translate business requirements and strategic goals into technical solutions
• Experience coaching engineers on coaching and mentoring others; fostering a culture of delivering specific praise and constructive feedback
• Can provide support and stability during times of urgency; contributes holistic solutions in post-mortems
• An inclusive, generous working style: you like to mentor, collaborate, and reputed company your team by supporting your peers, providing coaching and guidance to multiple team members, and anticipating where your reputed company would be helpful

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 reputed company new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for reputed company new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & reputed company Times

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