Senior Software Engineer, NationBuilder
$135-165k
Management software for community projects
Open for applications
Management software for community projects
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$135-165k
101-200 employees
Company mission
NationBuilder's mission is to build the infrastructure for a world of creators by helping leaders develop and organize thriving communities.
Role
Who you are
- You don’t just solve the problem you were asked to solve, you think critically to understand the broader context, and you have the experience to identify the best solution, technology or process
- You are capable of breaking down and implementing complex features
- You are able to investigate difficult and deeply technical issues while setting and following standards of quality for software development, testing, and documentation
- Are always interested in learning new things
- Get excited when you have the chance to pair with other engineers
- Practice test-driven development and judicious refactoring
- Enjoy being responsive to customer feedback
- Are a pragmatic problem solver, knowing how to find the middle ground between “perfect, but takes forever to code” and “fixes it now, but nobody will ever be able to understand what I did.”
- Clearly communicate about technical solutions with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- Work well in small teams with a clear mission
- Have the insight to know what’s important and the dedication to get it done
- Are comfortable with ruthless prioritization required to make sure we are always working on the most important thing
- Bring at least 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience
- Have insight into how things can go wrong and you actively work to prevent that from happening
- You are enthusiastic about working with Ruby on Rails, have a strong technical background, and professional experience with Rails
- We value the willingness to learn our technologies and our environment
- An open and disciplined approach to your work is as important to us as years of experience with any of the technologies in our stack
- We use Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, HTML/CSS/SCSS, and JavaScript (React/Redux/Bootstrap)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer you will build and maintain the software powering NationBuilder, while acting as a role model for the engineers around you
- You contribute to the effectiveness of the team through constant collaboration, efficient use of available resources, and writing software that is easy to reason about and modify in the future
- The Platform team’s mission is to enable all engineers to run wild and free; in service of that, we take a proactive stance on removing roadblocks other engineering teams encounter
- Looking ahead at some of the potential things you’ll be at the forefront of:
- Innovating and moving the backbone of our platform forward
- Driving creative approaches in how we instrument and maintain key performance metrics
- Have the opportunity to innovate on future job patterns for our background processing
- Ensure we stay on edge of Ruby on Rails through a continuous upgrade process
Our take
Communities of people can have an enormous impact on the success of charities, political campaigns, and activism movements, but organizing them can be difficult. Whilst social network platforms are generally the solution to this, these are generally not designed for such purposes, presenting a demand for a platform specifically designed for community project management.
NationBuilder provides a community project management platform with the aim to empower the communities behind nonprofits, social movements, and political campaigns to drive change. The software consists of an integrated system of tools for purposes such as building websites that track community engagement, fundraising and financial growth, personalized email and SMS services, and dynamic databasing of supporters.
Whilst NationBuilder’s software and its features resemble many other pre-existing project management platforms, it has taken a unique stance by specifically tackling the gap in the market around community management. By providing an integrated platform of tools for such projects, the company claims that they can help grow revenues for community projects which will ultimately speed up change.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2013
$8m
SERIES B
Mar 2012
$6.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $14.8m
Company benefits
- Leadership driven by employee satisfaction
- Health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) retirement plan
Company values
- We'd rather be better than right
- We do whatever it takes, no excuses
- We just say the thing
- We seek data and wisdom to make the best decisions
- We serve all communities
- We are humans, not robots
Company HQ
Financial District, Los Angeles, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jim Gilliam
(Executive Chairman)Experience as CTO of Business.com. Co-founder of Brave New Films from 2003 to 2008.
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