\nLocation: Remote within the US\n\nAbout our organization:\n\nAt Democracy Works, we help Americans vote, no matter what!  Our vision is to make voting a simple, seamless experience for all Americans so that no one misses an election, and our team works to help make this happen. Democracy Works is committed to diversity and inclusion in everything we do and aspires to have a team that's representative of the voters we serve. \n\nSalary Range: $104,400-$124,000 (Offers will vary based on experience and location-based cost-of-living calculations.)\n\n\nLevel: 3\n\nSupervisory role: N\n\n\n\n\nThe impact you’ll make:\n\nOur teams work closely together to build the tools for both voters and election administrators.  Our suite of tools include TurboVote, the Voting Information Project (VIP), How To Vote, and Ballot Scout. To power these tools we use a variety of languages such as; JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Clojure, and ClojureScript + re-frame (a framework built atop React).  We employ a microservices architecture where deployments are managed using containers (Docker) orchestrated by Kubernetes and running in the AWS cloud. Services primarily communicate using RabbitMQ and store their data in Datomic and PostgreSQL.\n\nAs a Software Engineer on the team, you will:\n\n\nJoin a collaborative team of engineers, product and design folks building useful, reliable software throughout the agile development cycle from planning to retro and beyond\n\nCollaboratively solve problems, by researching solutions, writing high quality, supportable code that fulfills the requirements laid out by your Product team\n\nWork on projects of moderate scope which will require navigating ambiguity by researching and discussing solutions with the team\n\nCollaborate with your team to make progress and highlight blockers for you or other team members\n\nInvestigate issues reported by users, team members and stakeholders to reproduce, isolate and track bugs, advocating their timely resolution\n\nParticipate in pair programming\n\nBe part of an on-call rotation with your team to ensure your product is always performing reliably (when you’re all ramped up and have the knowledge to be successful)\n\nCraft clear and thorough documentation\n\nGive and receive feedback to grow yourself and your team\n\n\n\nYou are someone with:\n\n\nAt least two years working on or with a team shipping software\n\nAn understanding of best practices and ability to provide insight to others on the team\n\nAn ability to communicate technical concepts to an audience with a variety of technical backgrounds\n\nAn ability to communicate with empathy and are an active listener, understanding that software is created by and for people\n\nExperience with or desire to learn one of the following programming languages:\n\n\n\nJavaScript\n\nTypeScript\n\nRuby\n\nPython\n\nClojure/ClojureScript\n\n\n\nExperience with relational databases and relational data modeling\n\nExperience with or desire to join a remote, distributed team\n\nFamiliarity with a distributed version control system (such as Git or Mercurial)\n\nAn ability to learn, navigate ambiguity, make tradeoffs, and think critically about software systems\n\nCuriosity to explore new tools, techniques, and perspectives on building software\n\nExperience with or a desire to automate repetitive or manual tasks\n\nA commitment to being detail-oriented and thorough in your work\n\n\n\nIt’s a plus if:\n\n\nYou’ve previously worked on a remote, distributed team\n\nYou have experience with or a desire to work with service-oriented or microservices architectures\n\nYou have experience working with Amazon Web Services\n\nYou have experience with or an understanding of accessibility in software development\n\nYou have a knowledge of testing practices including test automation\n\n\n\n\nHow we work\n\nBecause elections take place everywhere, our employees work from practically every state in the union. We embrace working remotely as the default. Our positions require regular, daily use of a computer (including the use of G-Suite and Slack) to conduct work and communicate with colleagues. You’ll participate in weekly check ins with the team, individual check ins with manager, and other team meetings as needed. We also have regular operating hours (10 am to 6 pm Eastern, Monday to Friday).\n\nFor those who prefer to work from an office, we are headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, and we provide support for co-working spaces around the country. We are happy to share more details about the office, including accessibility information, as on-site visits are planned.\n\nBenefits\n\nWe have an engaging, remote-forward workplace and as a member of the team, some of the benefits you’ll enjoy include:\n\n\n100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision option for you and your dependents\n\n12 floating holidays and 25 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year\n\n12 weeks of paid parental leave\n\n$1000 towards professional development activities\n\n\n\n\nWe also offer a 403(b) retirement plan, stipends for equipment and internet reimbursement, and annual Calm or Headspace subscription reimbursements.\n\nTo Apply\n\nAttach your resume and answers to the following questions:\n\n\nHow did you find this job listing?\n\nWhy are you interested in this role and working at Democracy Works?\n\nDescribe a bug you had a primary role in fixing. How did you troubleshoot and resolve the issue?\n\nAre you authorized to work lawfully in the United States for Democracy Works?\n\n\n\n\nOur Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) in Hiring\n\nDemocracy Works is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, color, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. \n\nAs part of our application, you’ll see an optional form used to collect U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) demographic information. Please note the categories used in this survey are set by the EEOC and may not reflect all existing categories.The data collected in this form is anonymized and is used in our EEOC reporting and in ongoing assessment of our recruitment practices. \n\nDemocracy Works follows the I-9 requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position, and you must possess your own work authorization in the U.S. now and in the future to continue working in this position.\n\nPlease reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions about our process or if you need an accommodation for a medical condition during the hiring process. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Software, Amazon, Git, Medical and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nOur homes are our most valuable asset and also the most difficult to buy and sell. Knock is on a mission to make trading in your house as simple and certain as trading in your car. Started by founding team members of Trulia.com (NYSE: TRLA, acquired by Zillow for $3.5B), Knock is an online home trade-in platform that uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way. We share the same top-tier investors as iconic brands like Netflix, Tivo, Match, HomeAway and Houzz.\n\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test to help us build our QA & automation processes, procedures, and tools. You will be responsible for integration and regression testing our frontend, mobile, and backend applications, and will be an advocate for a modern DevOps-first automation-rich development and release pipeline. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating great products and making the world amazing for homebuyers.\n\n\nAt Knock, we have fun, we move fast, we support and celebrate our fellow teammates, and we live by our POPSICLE values.\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test you will: \n\n\n* Lead and create robust test documentation including test plans, test cases, and test result analysis.\n\n* Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of deliverables.\n\n* Build, run and maintain automated functional, integration and regression tests to help improve software quality.\n\n* Build and maintain tooling to facilitate testing in the CI/CD pipelines.\n\n* Design metrics for performance, reliability, stability and compatibility with other systems.\n\n* Work deeply with our in-house and field operations team to identify, document, and regression test issues as they occur in the wild\n\n* Collaborate closely and daily with the design, product, engineering teams and other key teams at Knock.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for Knockstars who have: \n\n\n* Must be U.S. based.\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\n* Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Sr. SDET\n\n* Experience in developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, and analyzing test results.\n\n* Experience in building automated functional, integration and regression tests.\n\n* Experience with testing automation frameworks.\n\n* Experience in building automated UI testing for both web and mobile.\n\n* Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases.\n\n* A strong customer-first mindset and data-driven approach to their work\n\n* Programming proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, and other scripted or interpreted languages.\n\n* Knowledge of SQL (MySQL or Postgres).\n\n* Proven success working remotely in prior positions & are experienced working with a distributed, national team \n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n\n\n* Team and/or technical leadership experience.\n\n* Development and test experience in Node.js and React Native.\n\n* Experience with native Android and iOS automated test frameworks.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with Docker-based ecosystems and container orchestration systems such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat We Can Offer You:\n\n\n* An amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building the next multi-billion dollar consumer brand around the single largest purchase of our lives.\n\n* Talented, passionate and mission-driven peers disrupting the status quo.\n\n* Competitive cash, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k, flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation (2 weeks mandatory) and sick time.\n\n* Flexibility to live and work anywhere within the United States. As we are a distributed company and engineering team, we are open to any U.S. location for this role.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, and Denver with more on the way. In fact, we are proud to be a distributed company with employees in 21 different states. This is an amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building a multi-billion dollar consumer brand in an industry that is long overdue for a new way of doing things. You will be working with a passionate, mission-driven team that is disrupting the status quo.\n\n\nKnock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\n\nPlease no recruitment firm or agency inquiries, you will not receive a reply from us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Testing, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Amazon, Android and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nOur homes are our most valuable asset and also the most difficult to buy and sell. Knock is on a mission to make trading in your house as simple and certain as trading in your car. Started by founding team members of Trulia.com (NYSE: TRLA, acquired by Zillow for $3.5B), Knock is an online home trade-in platform that uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way. We share the same top-tier investors as iconic brands like Netflix, Tivo, Match, HomeAway and Houzz.\n\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Software Engineer in Test to help us build our QA & automation processes, procedures, and tools. You will be responsible for integration and regression testing our frontend, mobile, and backend applications, and will be an advocate for a modern DevOps-first automation-rich development and release pipeline. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating great products and making the world amazing for homebuyers.\n\n\nAt Knock, we have fun, we move fast, we support and celebrate our fellow teammates, and we live by our POPSICLE values.\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a Software Engineer in Test you will: \n\n\n* Lead and create robust test documentation including test plans, test cases, and test result analysis.\n\n* Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of deliverables.\n\n* Build, run and maintain automated functional, integration and regression tests to help improve software quality.\n\n* Build and maintain tooling to facilitate testing in the CI/CD pipelines.\n\n* Design metrics for performance, reliability, stability and compatibility with other systems.\n\n* Work deeply with our in-house and field operations team to identify, document, and regression test issues as they occur in the wild\n\n* Collaborate closely and daily with the design, product, engineering teams and other key teams at Knock.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for Knockstars who have: \n\n\n* Must be U.S. based.\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\n* Minimum of 5 years of experience as a software quality assurance engineer.\n\n* Experience in developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, and analyzing test results.\n\n* Experience in building automated functional, integration and regression tests.\n\n* Experience with testing automation frameworks.\n\n* Experience in building automated UI testing for both web and mobile.\n\n* Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases.\n\n* A strong customer-first mindset and data-driven approach to their work\n\n* Programming proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, and other scripted or interpreted languages.\n\n* Knowledge of SQL (MySQL or Postgres).\n\n* Proven success working remotely in prior positions & are experienced working with a distributed, national team \n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n\n\n* Team and/or technical leadership experience.\n\n* Development and test experience in Node.js and React Native.\n\n* Experience with native Android and iOS automated test frameworks.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with Docker-based ecosystems and container orchestration systems such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat We Can Offer You:\n\n\n* An amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building the next multi-billion dollar consumer brand around the single largest purchase of our lives.\n\n* Talented, passionate and mission-driven peers disrupting the status quo.\n\n* Competitive cash, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k, flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation (2 weeks mandatory) and sick time.\n\n* Flexibility to live and work anywhere within the United States. As we are a distributed company and engineering team, we are open to any U.S. location for this role.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, and Denver with more on the way. In fact, we are proud to be a distributed company with employees in 21 different states. This is an amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building a multi-billion dollar consumer brand in an industry that is long overdue for a new way of doing things. You will be working with a passionate, mission-driven team that is disrupting the status quo.\n\n\nKnock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\n\nPlease no recruitment firm or agency inquiries, you will not receive a reply from us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Testing, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Amazon, Android and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n