Software Engineer II - Payments

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating cutting-edge technology that fuels Democratic victories and enables progressive causes to thrive. The Software Engineer II role focuses on building and maintaining the payments infrastructure to support ActBlue's significant transaction volume and ensuring a smooth onboarding experience for new entities on the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance, and maintain payments systems to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable feature delivery across the payment life cycle from initial authorization to payout
• Contribute to the design, testing, monitoring, and rollout of our payments system
• Collaborate with other engineers to implement technical solutions while balancing effort, scope, and trade-offs specific to payment processing challenges
• Participate in identifying and addressing security, scalability, and reliability concerns in our payments infrastructure
• Debug issues throughout the stack and identify root causes or viable workarounds
• Contribute to creating and maintaining defensive testing practices within Engineering, particularly around payment processing workflows
• Write maintainable code that follows established best practices and design patterns
• Document your work effectively and support clear communication within the team
• Engage with your manager as a thought partner on core work and personal development to increase your impact on the team and the organization
• May support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards

Requirements:

• 2-4 years of relevant professional experience working with teams and delivering projects
• Professional experience with server-side web application development, preferably with Ruby on Rails
• Some experience working with or building ETL pipelines to ingest and transform data from one system to another
• A track record of delivering features while collaborating with product and design to resolve ambiguity and prioritize the highest impact work
• An aptitude for reasoning about and troubleshooting complex systems
• Proficiency in relational databases, preferably Postgres
• Understanding of performance, scalability, and security concerns, particularly as they relate to payment processing
• Eagerness to explore and refactor legacy code
• A team player mentality. You keep the end user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates, yet know when and how to defend your own ideas in a respectful manner
• Comfort collaborating with a distributed team of many remote colleagues
• An inclusive, generous working style: You like to collaborate and support your peers
• An eagerness to learn and grow your skills as an engineer
• Proactiveness, communication skills, and the ability to learn quickly