Vote.org is hiring a Software Engineer to help us permantly increase voter turnout in America.
Company description
Vote.org is a Y-Combinator backed nonprofit that uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy. We believe that Americans want to vote, and will vote in higher numbers -- and more consistently -- as voting becomes more convenient. We launched in April of 2016, and have since helped 13 million Americans register to vote and cast ballots via a combination of best-in-class technology and innovative proactive outreach. Most recently, we ran the single largest nonpartisan GOTV (get out the vote) drive in Alabama history. Our work has the potential to change the outcome of elections by bringing millions more voters into the voting booth.
Vote.org is deeply committed to diversity. We strongly encourage women, people of color, first-generation Americans, new parents, single parents, people with disabilities, and members of the queer community to apply.
Job description
Software engineers at Vote.org are integral to everything that we do, whether we're talking about building best-in-class civic engagement tools, or running massive outreach campaigns to low-propensity voters. This isn't just a regular coding job: you'll also interact with the legal team, the partnerships team, the communications team, and any other team that forms over the next few years. Millions of voters will use the tools you build, and dozens of national organzations will rely on your technoloyg to power their outreach efforts. Intrigued? Keep reading.
These are the required skills for this position:
- 3+ years experience building user-facing web applications.
- Fluency in web development (HTML/CSS/JS) with Python or Ruby and related frameworks
- Experience working with internal and external APIs
We’re hoping you bring 1-2 (or more) of these bonus skills:
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience or interest in security, aws, and other infrastructure/scale related challenges
- Experience scraping websites for data and righting the crimes committed against data
- Experience with advocacy, nonprofit, or campaign work
- Experience working remotely
- Experience working on a small team
- Experience with GitHub, forking, and issue tracking.
- Experience building accessible software and testing for accessibility
- Experience with TDD, rspec, and/or similar approaches to testing
You will thrive in this role if you’re someone that:
- Loves the idea of putting your skills and experience to use in a mission-driven organization
- Knows why shipping features is more important than building to absolute perfection
- Is comfortable working remotely since we’re an all-remote team
- Prefers planning and consistent execution over firefighting
- Gets that a 1% improvement each day is the right approach to Life, The Universe and Everything
Some of the benefits of working for Vote.org:
- We don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We actually are diverse and inclusive
- The Vote.org team is 70% women, and the engineering team is actually 75% women.
- Our CEO is a loud, proud, queer woman
- Our board of directors is intentionally all female -- and they're also 40% women of color.
- Almost half of our team members have kids, and all of the kids are under 5 years old.
- We love both dogs and cats, although we have slightly more cats on the team.
- Short commute. We all work from home. US only.
- Flexible work schedule. If you need to take 3-5pm off every day to get your kids from school and make after school snacks, we're totally cool with that.
- Full health, dental and vision for employees and generous coverage for your children.
- 3 weeks of mandatory vacation, 12 paid holidays, and we all take the week between Christmas and New Years off.
- Retirement accounts. We offer both a 401(k) and a Roth 401(k)
- Awesome slack channels. Including #music, #pets, #politics, and #OMG-WTF-LOL.
- Obama and Ellen love us...and have tweeted about us.
Salary:
The salary range for this position is $90,000 to $110,000 for applicants in the Bay Area, New York, and DC markets. It's adjusted based on cost of living for other markets.
To Apply:
- Submit at application via Recruiterbox. Here's the URL: http://bit.ly/2J57osE
- You’ll need a resume and the ability to answer a handful of short questions. We don't require a cover letter, because you don't want to write one and we don't want to read them.
- Applications are processed on a rolling basis.
- We will stop accepting applications on Sunday June 24, 2018.
Vote.org is an equal opportunity employer. This means that we don't discriminate against people because of their race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, personal appearance, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, genetic information, or political affiliation.
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