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Do you want to join us on our mission to shape democracies for the digital age? Are you looking for an international and fast-paced, yet collaborative and inclusive environment to thrive in?\n\nYou have come to the right place.\n\nCitizenLab, a global social impact scale-up with its HQ in Brussels, and presence in New York, works to make public decision-making more participatory, inclusive, and responsive. The open-source SaaS platform is already being used by 300+ local governments and organizations in over 18 countries, facilitating two-way communication between governments and their residents. Since it was founded in 2015, CitizenLab has given 750,000+ community members a direct voice in local politics, has earned recognition as the 'Best Social Impact Startup in Europe', and was featured in outlets such as The New York Times and Forbes.\n\nCitizenLab is looking for purpose-driven talent to join us on our mission to enable millions of people in cities across the globe to shape the future of their communities.\n\n**Full-Stack Engineer at CitizenLab**\n\nAs a Full-Stack Engineer you contribute to our core product, which allows local governments to engage their citizens through a wide range of digital participation methods. Youโre part of a small cross-functional squad. While contributing to both our Ruby back-end and our React front-end, you help your colleagues bridge knowledge gaps.\n\nAt CitizenLab, we work in small teams where members collectively take ownership of the outcome of the features they build. We work in short iterations, test rigorously and release continuously. Weโre strong believers in user testing and understanding live product usage.\n\nYour responsibilities:\n\n* You **actively contribute** to the specifications and designs to deliver on your squadโs objectives, uncovering technical constraints and breaking down the work in iterations and tasks\n\n* You **take ownership** over your **tasks** and implement them in close contact with your colleagues\n\n* You take into account all aspects, from data models, to testing, to performance, **delivering well-engineered scalable solutions**\n\n* You bridge the back-end/front-end knowledge gaps for your colleagues, seeing the **full picture**\n\n* You deliver your work in small iterations, often soliciting **feedback** from colleagues, spontaneously and through code reviews\n\n\n**What do we expect from you?**\n\nAs our Full-Stack Engineer you can demonstrate\n\n* You have multiple years of experience developing web applications with **Ruby on Rails** or similar\n\n* You have multiple year of experience developing modern UI in **React** or similar\n\n* You know how to implement a **modern user interface**\n\n* You know how to implement a sound **API**\n\n* Youโre a firm believer in **well tested** and **peer-reviewed** code\n\n* You have a **bias for action** and love writing code\n\n* You love to thinking about the product youโre building, **transcending the code**\n\n* Youโre located in a timezone within **UTC-05 and UTC+03**\n\nEagerness to learn, talent, and enthusiasm are more important than ticking the boxes. Even if not all desired requirements are met, but you're very excited about the role, we want to hear from you.\n\n**What can you expect from us?**\n\n* Unlock your full potential and create social impact at **scale** through our open-source product. Day-to-day, we work with local government leaders across the world to help them connect with their communities.\n\n* Become a key factor in our rapid growth as **scaleup** (75 employees), and contribute to our international expansion.\n\n* Work in a **fast-paced, collaborative, and supportive** environment. We share a participatory culture of autonomy and ownership by everyone, not only by leadership.\n\n* Be part of our **dynamic, international** team. We are as serious about our work in digital democracy as we are about having fun on our journey together.\n\n* Enjoy an **informal work vibe** with open communication and full transparency on results.\n\n* Participate in our **various in-person and remote team events**, inspiring team lunches, our company book club, bi-quarterly strategic town halls, and yearly global team retreats.\n\n* Spend 10% of your time on **personal projects and self-development** for the long run. Weโre committed to both collective and individual growth.\n\n* Receive a **competitive salary package**, incl. perks such as 26 days off, a professional development budget, a collective bonus plan, your own laptop, full flexibility on working from home, and much more.\n\n*CitizenLab is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Whilst we are proud of our cultural diversity and gender parity, we are aware of the limited racial diversity in our team and are committed to making a change on this. We strongly encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to apply.* \n\nPlease mention the word **JOYOUSLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNDEuOC4yNDc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
$60,000 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide
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