EA-Senior Software Engineer

Bonterra is a technology platform that supports democratic and progressive causes. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Political, Fundraising, and Engagement Engineering team, responsible for owning complex features in voter/donor management platforms and mentoring peers in technical excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in system design decisions for complex features
• Propose approaches that balance performance, maintainability, scalability, and business needs
• Identify opportunities to simplify scope, reduce code complexity, and eliminate technical debt
• Mentor junior and peer engineers through code reviews and design collaboration
• Model best practices and drive technical excellence
• Work closely with QA to ensure quality standards are met and maintained
• Design and implement complex features for voter/donor management, third-party integrations, and AI-powered enhancements
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable code that meets performance, security, and scalability standards
• Proactively identify anomalies, inefficiencies, and technical gaps
• Propose and champion improvements that enhance product health
• Partner with product and data teams to measure impact

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Deep hands-on experience with both C# and JavaScript / ReactJS
• Strong foundation in SQL Server and relational database query design
• Experience building or maintaining APIs, third-party integrations, or distributed systems
• Understanding of web scalability challenges (caching strategies, data modeling, async patterns)
• Comfortable using AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.) in your day-to-day workflow
• Comfort with mentoring and participating in architecture discussions
• Alignment to work with Democratic political campaigns and progressive nonprofits
• Worked on election technology, campaign tools, or mission-driven products
• Hands-on experience with Redis, ElasticSearch, or similar tools in production
• AWS or Azure cloud services experience
• Mobile integrations (iOS/Android/React Native)
• Experience building features that integrate AI/LLM capabilities