Senior Full Stack Engineer, Data Systems

Switchboard works with thousands of campaigns from school board to Senate and Presidential races, strengthening Democratic digital fundraising and organizing programs up and down the ballot. In addition to the automated messaging platform that we launched in 2021 through which organizations have sent billions of messages, over the last year we’ve continued to build out an integrated suite of tools, including an emailer, forms builder, and fundraising analytics dashboards, with the goal of bringing together coordination across outreach channels, powerful analytics, and an easy-to-use platform.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you’ll play a foundational role in architecting and building infrastructure and web applications for Switchboard, leveraging modern technology platforms and frameworks.

• Architecting complex data systems to power the future of digital fundraising and outreach on behalf of democratic and progressive political campaigns
• Building out APIs to allow other technology vendors and large organizations in the progressive technology space to connect to Switchboard’s capabilities programmatically
• Integrating a high volume of data from a wide variety of third‑parties into our existing products. Our systems manage billions of data points, ingesting new data at peaks of thousands of requests/sec.
• Leveraging AI‑powered tools to accelerate the team's development, and ensure our systems integrate well with AI systems our customers utilize for running programs on Switchboard
• Helping establish and contribute to a positive engineering culture, with best practices around testing, code quality, security, and automation to help reduce errors and maintenance costs

• 7+ years experience building and deploying large‑scale data‑intensive web applications, with an eye towards adaptability, scalability, and reliability.
• Knowledge of Python, JavaScript, or the ability to learn them quickly. (e.g. we use Django Rest Framework on the backend and NextJS on the frontend)
• Deep familiarity with cloud‑hosted databases, data pipelines, event tracking, and identity resolution, and managing their performance and health at scale (e.g. Big Query, Kafka, PySpark, Apache Flink, Elastic Search, Clickhouse, etc.).
• Product‑minded, with a track record of leading large projects, mentoring other engineers, and demonstrating effective communication within teams and with outside partners
• Comfortable taking on projects in new areas for them, learning quickly to develop the expertise and execute on those projects.

• $190k-$230k annual salary and an equity grant varying based on experience
• Switchboard covers 100% of health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 80% for dependents
• 21 days of paid time off plus federal holidays
• Unlimited sick leave
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for parents of any gender, including adoptive parents
• 401(K) match with immediate vesting
• Vibrant hybrid workplace in Washington D.C., with relocation assistance for candidates interested in working in‑person, while also supporting full‑time, remote work outside of D.C.

We believe the best products and companies are built by diverse teams where everyone’s perspectives are heard and respected. We strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQ+, women, and members of other underrepresented groups to apply. Even if you’re not sure if the role is a good fit, please apply! We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in the hiring process and on the job.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the US. Unfortunately we're unable to sponsor work visas at this time.