Software Engineer II

Civitech is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating a fairer and more equitable democracy by building the tools and infrastructure needed to increase civic participation, empower Democratic candidates to win, and support the success of progressive causes. Since its founding in 2019, over 500 partners—a range of nonprofit organizations, national political committees, and individual campaigns—have utilized Civitech’s tools to reach tens of millions of voters to help create a more equitable and progressive democracy.

This hire will join our Core Engineering Team and be responsible for building and maintaining products that empower progressive candidates, organizations, and constituents all over America. Civitech is a remote‑first company hiring within our current footprint of 27 states (AL, AK, CA, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WY);
Civitech does have an office in Austin, TX.

It is important that our team reflects the diversity of the organizations we seek to serve. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and others otherwise underrepresented in the technology sector to apply.

• We act with Integrity – At Civitech, we hold ourselves to the highest standards and value open and transparent communications with all of our stakeholders. Our rigorous approach to product design, testing, and data science leads to accurate assessments of our outcomes and challenges us to constantly improve our tools.
• We are Changemakers – As a team, Civitech seeks to make transformational change in our democracy by eliminating obstacles meant to hamper contribution from every member of the community.
• We are Collaborators – Buoyed by our mission, we look for opportunities to partner with everyone committed to making democracy easier to participate in. We seek to understand the challenges our partners face and use our skills and creativity to help them solve them.
• We are Bold – We recognize that disruptive change won’t come with doing business as usual. Civitech seeks to revolutionize civic participation by bringing innovation and creativity to politics.

• Medical, Vision, & Dental Insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Employee Stock Options
• Employer‑paid Life Insurance
• Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Time Off & Paid Company Holidays
• Flexible Spending Account
• Parental Leave
• Flexible Schedules
• Professional Development Stipend
• Monthly Office Upkeep Stipend

• Participate with other engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of Civitech’s applications and infrastructure.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with product, research, and data science teams to develop features from participation in requirements definition through to testing and documentation.
• Build scalable, secure, and high‑performing features in a cloud environment.
• Communicate effectively with team members and contribute to an open and inclusive engineering culture.
• Grow your technical skills and contribute to effective team development practices.

• Building Voter Registration Pipelines:
  Implementing National Change of Address lookups and working with the Data Science team to generate more targets for our Voter Registration Mail programs so we can effectively register more Democrats.
• Optimizing Data Availability:
  Developing new features to automatically make election research data available in our customer facing tools, reducing latency to our end users.
• Bridging Data Silos:
  Designing strategies to effectively and broadly share data between various operational Postgre
  
  SQL databases and Big Query data warehouses to enrich existing datasets.

• You have 4 - 8 years of software engineering experience.
• You thrive in a fast‑paced startup environment, enjoy building software for the public good, and are passionate about democracy, civics, and politics.
• You have expertise with one or more of the following:
  Ruby on Rails, Python, or Java script/Typescript.
• You have experience working with cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform or AWS; experience with Azure is also valuable.
• You are skilled in…