Staff Software Engineer, Change.org
$178-210k
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Social change platform
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Social change platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$178-210k
Salary dependent on location
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see.
Role
Who you are
- Backend specialist, but still able to work in full stack
- Comfort and confidence with different technologies, languages and frameworks in all layers of the webstack, from frontend to backend with an emphasis on Ruby on Rails, Nodejs, React, Javascript, Typescript, GraphQL
- Experience building APIs that serve data from backend services to the frontend
- Extensive experience using SQL-style databases. Able to define and adjust data schemas
- Experience with various web analytics measurement methodologies and measurement platforms (Google Analytics, Search Console, SEO tools)
- Use data to identify opportunities, set priorities and make decisions
- 5-8 years of experience in backend technologies like Ruby on Rails/NodeJS/Elixir
- 3 years of experience with frontend web service development
- 3 years of experience in frontend technologies like React/JavaScript/TypeScript
- 2 years minimum of experience in modern SEO
Desirable
- Experience with SEO. Knowledge of common SEO factors and strategies that drive organic traffic to a website
- Experience in digital marketing areas such as: email, search engine (SEM), social media, brand
- Experience working in Elixir
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with redis and other noSQL databases
What the job involves
- Change.org is searching for a Staff Software Engineer with experience growing users of websites with the ultimate goal of driving Change’s key metrics: petition creation and petition effectiveness
- We believe these are core to achieving our company mission of helping people around the world create the change they want to see
- Collaborate with product and design colleagues to discover tactics that could increase traffic to Change.org website and drive our product strategy
- Deliver user-facing software iteratively: by first building an MVP, and only scaling once we validate using experimentation and user data
- Work effectively at scale, manage own priorities and make appropriate progress with minimal supervision
- Make impact outside immediate team by proactively looking for opportunities to improve the wider organization
- Scope projects and deconstruct into a well-defined action plan with timelines
- Be responsible for execution and timelines
- Familiarity with instrumentation and experimentation, deep system understanding
- Be a driver for system quality
- Influence architectural decisions in a collaborative environment
- Obsessed with improving page speed and performance
- Communicate early and often, sharing ideas, analysis, and information in a direct verbal and written manner
- Partner and collaborate effectively across functions such as devops, QA, product and design
- Collaborate successfully in a remote setting with colleagues located in different timezones
Application process
- 30 minute screen with a Recruiter
- 45 minute interview with Product Manager
- 2 hour virtual onsite interview with a Staff Software Engineer and a Senior Engineering Manager which will include an hour of live coding
- 30 min interview with our Interim Director of Engineering
Our take
Change.org is a global online website that has hosted millions of petitions since it launched in 2007, including dozens of notable cases that have led to significant worldwide change. Of interest, too, is its voluntary 2021 recognition of its staff’s labor union; at the time it was the largest tech company to do so.
Change.org remains the leading player in online petitions, generating revenue from petition promotions and subscription memberships. This revenue has raised some eyebrows - but Change.org has successfully withstood skepticism about its legal status as a business rather than a non-profit. It has demonstrably facilitated speed and scale for the social change platform and has allowed the company to comfortably retain salaried employees.
The company has become the world's largest nonprofit-owned tech platform after it transitioned to 100% nonprofit ownership following donations of equity from its investors including Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson. However, Change.org has not been immune from the global economic crisis, and in response, it aims to innovate its platform by updating its internal tools and engineering capabilities. Regardless, the company is here for the long run and is used in around 200 countries, with over 70,000 campaigns launched on its platform each month.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2017
$31.5m
SERIES D
Dec 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $73.5m
Company benefits
- Benefits for you and your family - medical, vision, dental, disability, Life, EAP, and more
- 100% baseline monthly healthcare costs covered for each employee
- Mental health benefits provide our employees with 9 free therapy and 10 free career coaching sessions
- Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
- 5 Recharge Days throughout the year that allow for collective time off across our global workforce
- Global year-end paid company holiday closure
- Minimum 18 weeks global paid parental leave
- Consistently applied compensation standards
- Commitment to a culture of feedback through quarterly engagement surveys
- Focus on your growth and development through quarterly performance management check-ins
- Work where you need to work
- Join our in-person events to build connection
- Win an Impact Award and travel to a dream city
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ben Rattray
(Executive Chair)Studied at LSE, and Political Science & Economics at Stanford.
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