\nVote.org is hiring a Software Engineer to help us permantly increase voter turnout in America.\n\n\n\nJob description\nSoftware engineers at Vote.org are integral to everything that we do, whether we're talking about building best-in-class civic engagement tools, or running massive outreach campaigns to low-propensity voters. This isn't just a regular coding job: you'll also interact with the legal team, the partnerships team, the communications team, and any other team that forms over the next few years. Millions of voters will use the tools you build, and dozens of national organzations will rely on your technoloyg to power their outreach efforts. Intrigued? Keep reading.\n\nThese are the required skills for this position:\n\n* 3+ years experience building user-facing web applications.  \n\n* Fluency in web development (HTML/CSS/JS) with Python or Ruby and related frameworks\n\n* Experience working with internal and external APIs\n\n\n\nWe’re hoping you bring 1-2 (or more) of these bonus skills:\n\n\n* Experience with Ruby on Rails\n\n* Experience or interest in security, aws, and other infrastructure/scale related challenges\n\n* Experience scraping websites for data and righting the crimes committed against data\n\n* Experience with advocacy, nonprofit, or campaign work\n\n* Experience working remotely\n\n* Experience working on a small team\n\n* Experience with GitHub, forking, and issue tracking.\n\n* Experience building accessible software and testing for accessibility\n\n* Experience with TDD, rspec, and/or similar approaches to testing\n\n\n\n\nYou will thrive in this role if you’re someone that:\n\n\n* Loves the idea of putting your skills and experience to use to help increase voter turnout in a non-partisan fashion\n\n* Is comfortable shipping "good enough" features instead of waiting for them to be perfect\n\n* Likes the idea of working remotely, since we are an all-remote team\n\n* Prefers planning and consistent execution over fire-fighting and chaos\n\n* Loves front-end and feature work more than devops and backend (we do it all, but we primarily build and ship software)\n\n* Can get down with our team motto: "If you get 1% better every day, you'll be over 3600% better in a single year." We think this is the right approach to Life, The Universe and Everything\n\n\n\n\nSalary:\nThe salary range for this position is $90,000 to $110,000 for applicants in the Bay Area, New York, and DC markets. It's adjusted based on cost of living for other markets.\n\nTo Apply:\n\n\n* You’ll need a resume and the ability to answer a handful of short questions. We don't require a cover letter, because you don't want to write one and we don't want to read them.   \n\n* Applications are processed on a rolling basis.  \n\n* We will stop accepting applications on Saturday June 30, 2018.\n\n\n\n\nVote.org is an equal opportunity employer. This means that we don't discriminate against people because of their race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, personal appearance, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, genetic information, or political affiliation. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Python, Ruby, Legal and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/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

\nVote.org is hiring a Software Engineer to help us permantly increase voter turnout in America.\n\n\n\nCompany description\nVote.org is a Y-Combinator backed nonprofit that uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy. We believe that Americans want to vote, and will vote in higher numbers -- and more consistently -- as voting becomes more convenient. We launched in April of 2016, and have since helped 13 million Americans register to vote and cast ballots via a combination of best-in-class technology and innovative proactive outreach. Most recently, we ran the single largest nonpartisan GOTV (get out the vote) drive in Alabama history. Our work has the potential to change the outcome of elections by bringing millions more voters into the voting booth.  \n\nVote.org is deeply committed to diversity. We strongly encourage women, people of color, first-generation Americans, new parents, single parents, people with disabilities, and members of the queer community to apply.\n\nJob description\nSoftware engineers at Vote.org are integral to everything that we do, whether we're talking about building best-in-class civic engagement tools, or running massive outreach campaigns to low-propensity voters. This isn't just a regular coding job: you'll also interact with the legal team, the partnerships team, the communications team, and any other team that forms over the next few years. Millions of voters will use the tools you build, and dozens of national organzations will rely on your technoloyg to power their outreach efforts. Intrigued? Keep reading.\n\nThese are the required skills for this position:\n\n* 3+ years experience building user-facing web applications.  \n\n* Fluency in web development (HTML/CSS/JS) with Python or Ruby and related frameworks\n\n* Experience working with internal and external APIs\n\n\n\nWe’re hoping you bring 1-2 (or more) of these bonus skills:\n\n\n* Experience with Ruby on Rails\n\n* Experience or interest in security, aws, and other infrastructure/scale related challenges\n\n* Experience scraping websites for data and righting the crimes committed against data \n\n* Experience with advocacy, nonprofit, or campaign work\n\n* Experience working remotely\n\n* Experience working on a small team\n\n* Experience with GitHub, forking, and issue tracking.\n\n* Experience building accessible software and testing for accessibility\n\n* Experience with TDD, rspec, and/or similar approaches to testing\n\n\n\n\nYou will thrive in this role if you’re someone that:\n\n\n* Loves the idea of putting your skills and experience to use in a mission-driven organization\n\n* Knows why shipping features is more important than building to absolute perfection\n\n* Is comfortable working remotely since we’re an all-remote team\n\n* Prefers planning and consistent execution over firefighting\n\n* Gets that a 1% improvement each day is the right approach to Life, The Universe and Everything\n\n\n\n\nSome of the benefits of working for Vote.org:\n\n\n* We don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We actually are diverse and inclusive\n\n\n\n\n* The Vote.org team is 70% women, and the engineering team is actually 75% women.\n\n* Our CEO is a loud, proud, queer woman\n\n* Our board of directors is intentionally all female -- and they're also 40% women of color.\n\n* Almost half of our team members have kids, and all of the kids are under 5 years old. \n\n* We love both dogs and cats, although we have slightly more cats on the team. \n\n\n\n* Short commute. We all work from home. US only.\n\n* Flexible work schedule. If you need to take 3-5pm off every day to get your kids from school and make after school snacks, we're totally cool with that. \n\n* Full health, dental and vision for employees and generous coverage for your children.\n\n* 3 weeks of mandatory vacation, 12 paid holidays, and we all take the week between Christmas and New Years off.\n\n* Retirement accounts. We offer both a 401(k) and a Roth 401(k)\n\n* Awesome slack channels. Including #music, #pets, #politics, and #OMG-WTF-LOL.\n\n* Obama and Ellen love us...and have tweeted about us.\n\n\n\n\nSalary:\nThe salary range for this position is $90,000 to $110,000 for applicants in the Bay Area, New York, and DC markets. It's adjusted based on cost of living for other markets.\n\nTo Apply:\n\n\n\n* Submit at application via Recruiterbox. Here's the URL: https://votedotorg.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk01fte\n\n\n\n\n\n* You’ll need a resume and the ability to answer a handful of short questions. We don't require a cover letter, because you don't want to write one and we don't want to read them.   \n\n* Applications are processed on a rolling basis.  \n\n* We will stop accepting applications on Sunday June 24, 2018.\n\n\n\n\nVote.org is an equal opportunity employer. This means that we don't discriminate against people because of their race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, personal appearance, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, genetic information, or political affiliation. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Python, Ruby and Legal jobs that are similar:\n\n $75,000 — $130,000/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

\nLong Distance Voter (longdistancevoter.org) is one of the most frequently visited sites on the internet for all things voting related. We’ve had over 4 million visitors to our site since launch, and reached another 30+ million via a 2014 partnership with Google. Two weeks ago we bought Vote.org and are getting ready to launch our most ambitious project to date. Our user-facing site will be the defacto online hub of all things voting. Our partner portal will provide critical infrastructure to every other group in civic engagement. Our R&D efforts will rapidly prototype and test ways to apply established technologies in innovative civic applications with proven potential for impact.  \n\nWe’re on a mission to use technology to drastically increase voter turnout and we’re building the  team to get us there.  We’re looking for a talented engineer with a heart of gold and rock solid judgement to come on as full-time engineer #1.  Think this might be you? Keep reading.\n\nYour coworkers would describe you as:\n\n\n* Ships working software as quickly as possible without sacrificing stability, privacy, or security. \n\n* Can translate a long term product vision into discrete shippable features.\n\n* Knows how important it is to build software that is usable and accessible by anyone, regardless of browser or device \n\n* Communicates pragmatic solutions clearly and can understand where engineering tasks fit within the big picture.\n\n* Is comfortable communicating with non-engineers, including county election officials, politicians, and field, and other staff – in a way that is respectful and supportive.\n\n* Knows how to pick the right tools for the job.\n\n* Prefers to do load testing and capacity planning over firefighting.\n\n\n\n\nYou’d describe yourself as someone who:\n\n\n* Loves the idea of working at a small, flexible, mission-driven nonprofit organization. \n\n* Finds the idea of a non-negotiable, hard deadlines exciting\n\n* Enjoys using your skills to help solve very large problems (like low voter turnout). \n\n* Is more motivated by impact than money at this point in your career. If you want an intro to an exec at Uber, we’re happy to make one (we know them), but we can’t pay you as much as Uber can.\n\n* Genuinely enjoys being part of a small yet mighty team\n\n* Is comfortable working remotely if needed\n\n\n\n\nYour day-to-day job responsibilities will involve:\n\n\n* Building web applications help millions of people vote in the 2016 election and beyond.  \n\n* Keeping everything running smoothly. You own everything from DNS to bare metal (metaphorically speaking, we currently run on Heroku and AWS).\n\n* Leading technical design of our products, with an eye toward rapid scale, stability, and managing bursty traffic.\n\n* Seeing and articulating the big picture for the CEO, volunteers, and other stakeholders.\n\n* Growing and leading a team of in-house or contract software engineers and designers.\n\n* Important to note: You’re inheriting a vote-by-mail application, a registration verification app, a partner portal. Your first brand new product will be a simple voter registration tool that will be used 500,000 times in 2016 alone. The wireframes are ready for you.\n\n\n\n\nYou possess the following technical skills: \n\n\n* 5+ years of professional experience shipping user-facing software while meeting hard deadlines\n\n* Expert knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL), and scripting languages like Ruby (or Python, PHP, etc)\n\n* Experience with Rails, Node.js, or other frameworks\n\n* Fluent in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Angular is a bonus)\n\n* Experience deploying (Heroku), managing, and debugging servers\n\n* Experience using git\n\n* A working knowledge of web security best practices\n\n\n\n\nHuge bonus points for:\n\n\n* Experience working on a political campaign, or for a civic engagement org. \n\n* An abiding love for the emerging US Web Design Standards (https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/)\n\n* Interest for public speaking. You’ll be building Vote.org! Conferences will want to hear from you!\n\n\n\n\n\nApplication Deadline: January 30, 2016.  If you’re even *thinking* about applying, go ahead and apply. There’s no such thing as imposter syndrome around here.\n\n\n* Apply via our RecruiterBox posting. We’re really excited to hear from you. https://longdistancevoter.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0h5t9\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Ruby and Heroku 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