AK - Senior Software Engineer

Bonterra is a technology platform that supports democratic and progressive causes. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help develop and maintain their ActionKit codebase, work directly with clients, and contribute to various technical functions to enhance their product.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience with (or at) nonprofits or political groups
• Experience touching multiple aspects of a software business, such as development, design, cloud and database administration, support, releases, QA, sales, and management
• Experience with one or more of the specific technologies we use. ActionKit is written in Python using the Django framework, backed by a MySQL database, and hosted in AWS