Backend Engineer

Role

As a Backend Engineer on a small team, you’ll be collaborating with our front-end engineers, UX designers, and product managers to design, develop, and implement backend solutions powering large-scale web and native applications. You will be joining a small, fast-moving team and thus you will immediately be shipping code that will be used across the country to power grassroots progressive change, including by some of the most well-known and impactful campaigns and organizations in the country.

Responsibilities

Scoping, architecting, modeling and implementing multiple new product features
Writing API endpoints, schemas, data-handling functions, and other code
Advising and guiding the evolution of our product roadmap, providing feedback on feasibility and estimated timelines for new feature development
Upholding solid engineering standards and practices.

Who You Are

You have minimum 2 years experience working in similar engineering role using a similar tech stack.
You are comfortable across the stack knowing your way around server-side web frameworks, leveraging relational databases to get the job done, provisioning and tweaking web servers, and building scalable APIs in Python.
You have a drive and enthusiasm about writing great code and learning new skills. You are self-motivated and excited by challenges.
You are passionate about progressive politics and comfortable in a deeply political atmosphere. We’re a mission-driven company, and everything we do is guided by political impact and custom-built for the progressive movement. Politics are an integral part of everyday life at Reach.

Your skills and experience will hopefully include:

Server-side development, especially Python
SQL and transactional databases, especially Postgres
REST, GraphQL and building scalable APIs
Developing, releasing, documenting, and supporting backend code
Multithreaded and asynchronous programming
Problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

If you aren’t an expert on everything here, don’t worry about it. As long as you are open-minded and game to try new things, we want to hear from you.

Details

This position is remote but applicant should be able to collaborate with the team between 10am and 6pm ET.
We are open to a salaried or independent contractor arrangement.
We offer a salary of $101k
Salaried positions include health insurance, vision, dental, commuter benefits, 401K, paid time off and paid family leave.

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We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the activists that we stand with and fight alongside. We especially encourage women, non-binary people, people of color, and others who are underrepresented in the tech industry to apply.