Senior Software Engineer, Bonterra

• Skills and judgment to produce high-quality work, from attention to detail in coding and testing to big-picture wisdom about risk and simplifying tricky plans
• Communication and collaboration skills. It's critical to be able to talk through tradeoffs, ask for the information you need to get up to speed, and make your work understandable to others
• Empathy with others' needs, from coworkers to clients
• Experience building database-backed web apps, especially using dynamic-language frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Django. Adjacent experience will be considered, too
• That said, we aren't judging candidates by a checklist and want anyone up to the job to apply. We come from a variety of backgrounds and would like future hires to as well

Desirable

• We’re looking for a generalist developer who, like the rest of our team, is ready to wear many hats, working on all aspects of ActionKit ranging all the way from development to client support
• ActionKit is built on Python, Django, MySQL, Linux, and AWS
• We keep our eyes on the big picture
• We prefer giving team members higher-level goals and flexibility rather than micro-managing
• You’re responsible for the detailed design of your features, not just coding them, and developers often propose feature ideas
• Vision is as important a part of the job as execution
• We all pitch in on a lot of things
• All engineers’ work touches various parts of the product, support, and operations
• Other roles span sales and project management, or database administration and hiring
• The work isn’t over when the code ships
• We’re proud of the quality and reliability of our product, and our response when there are bugs, pain points, or production issues
• Every engineer, including you, takes a shift of at least a few hours each week answering clients' support tickets
• Help shape the direction of the product by proposing ideas, collecting client feedback, and refining broad ideas into concrete plans, both in informal conversation and places like our issue tracker
• Help develop and maintain ActionKit’s codebase, from building brand new features to polishing, debugging, refactoring, or improving the efficiency or reliability of existing code
• 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 client summit
• Contribute as needed to other technical functions like operations, tooling, monitoring, performance tuning, and more—all engineers pitch in on these at ActionKit; no one just develops new features
• Work with teammates to accomplish all of the above (as we’ll work to help you!) both by talking with each other day-to-day and through structured channels like code reviews and documentation
• This position is a part of a bargaining union represented by CWA Local 1400, 2336, or 13000

• End Date: November 5, 2025