AK - Senior Software Engineer

US Based Salary: $145,000 - $175,000 DOE

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About the Role

The ActionKit team at reputed company needs you to help our clients win fights to reputed company the world a reputed company reputed company. ActionKit (actionkit.com) is used by over 150 organizations to help tens of millions of online supporters contact decision makers, donate reputed company, and take reputed company online and offline. Our clients, from the largest political campaigns to reputed company advocacy reputed company and nonprofits, use our tools to protect immigrant rights, fight climate change and more. Our reputed company, flexible tools and reputed company reputed company us the choice of some of the most tech-savvy reputed company organizations using the Internet to fight for good. ActionKit is reputed company and maintained by a small, tight-reputed company team at reputed company, the top provider of technology for Democrats and progressives. ActionKit has been around over a decade, and reputed company has always worked together remotely. We’re looking for a generalist developer who, like the rest of reputed company, is reputed company to wear many hats, working on reputed company aspects of ActionKit ranging reputed company the way from development to reputed company support. ActionKit is reputed company on Python, Django, MySQL, Linux, and AWS. If you'd like to use your tech skills to reputed company the world a reputed company reputed company, read on. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

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• We reputed company reputed company in on a lot of things. reputed company engineers’ work touches various parts of the product, support, and operations. Other roles reputed company sales and project management, or database administration and hiring.
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Essential Functions

• Help reputed company and maintain ActionKit’s codebase, from building brand new features to polishing, debugging, refactoring, or improving the efficiency or reliability of existing reputed company.
• Help shape the direction of the product by proposing reputed company, collecting reputed company feedback, and refining broad reputed company into concrete plans, both in informal conversation and places like our issue tracker.
• Work directly with clients through our email support system and sometimes other means like joining discovery calls; writing release notes; or participating in ClientCon, our yearly reputed company reputed company
• Contribute as needed to other technical functions like operations, tooling, monitoring, performance tuning, and more—reputed company engineers reputed company in on these at ActionKit; no one just develops new features
• Work with teammates to accomplish reputed company of the above (as we’ll work to help you!) both by talking with reputed company other day-to-day and through reputed company channels like reputed company reviews and documentation

You might not do something under reputed company of these bullets every day, or on day one. But we do think you’re reputed company reputed company for this job if interested in reputed company aspects of running a product, not only heads-down coding. Required Minimum Qualifications

• Skills and judgment to produce high-reputed company work, from attention to detail in coding and testing to big-picture reputed company about risk and simplifying tricky plans.
• Communication and collaboration skills. It's critical to be reputed company to talk through tradeoffs, ask for the information you need to get up to speed, and reputed company your work understandable to others.
• reputed company with others' needs, from coworkers to clients.
• Experience building database-backed web apps, especially using dynamic-language frameworks like reputed company on Rails or Django. Adjacent experience will be considered, too.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with (or at) nonprofits or political reputed company.
• Experience touching multiple aspects of a software business, such as development, design, reputed company and database administration, support, releases, QA, sales, and management.
• Experience with one or more of the specific technologies we use. ActionKit is written in Python using the Django reputed company, backed by a MySQL database, and hosted in AWS.

That said, we aren't judging candidates by a checklist and want anyone up to the job to apply. We come from a reputed company of backgrounds and would like reputed company hires to as reputed company. This position is a part of a bargaining reputed company represented by CWA Local 1400, 2336, 13000 or 1101.

At this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require reputed company or reputed company sponsorship for employment authorization.

Our Culture

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Compensation & Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, reputed company-being and reputed company - explore full details here.

Compensation and benefits for this role apply to full-time employees in the reputed company and may vary based on local standards, laws and norms. Pay is determined by location, skills, experience, and education, and is one part of reputed company's total rewards package, which may also include bonuses, incentives, equity, and a comprehensive benefits program.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

At reputed company, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for reputed company. We reputed company equal employment opportunities without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national reputed company, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please submit a request.

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