Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack – Backend Focus

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Oversee partner fundraising tools, administrative dashboards, and associated services from technical design to launch and ongoing iteration.

• Create and develop secure, thoroughly tested Python FastAPI services, data models, and integrations.

• Execute data pipelines to import election and campaign data from vendors, APIs, flat files, and scraping tasks.

• Ensure data accuracy is maintained.

• Develop and sustain payment and vendor integrations with Stripe, Chariot, and other partners.

• Lead or assist with integration migrations as the platform evolves.

• Enhance Postgres, Redis, and background jobs for scalability and reliability in anticipation of high-traffic election periods.

• Monitor production systems and engage in on-call responsibilities.

• Lead incident response efforts and conduct blameless post-mortems.

• Collaborate with product and design teams to influence product direction and pinpoint trade-offs.

• Perform code reviews, mentor engineers, and enhance engineering standards, including for AI-assisted development.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of professional software engineering experience, primarily focused on full-stack web applications, especially on the back end.

• Proficient in Python, with hands-on experience in building and managing APIs in production environments.

• Familiarity with FastAPI, Django, or Flask frameworks.

• Strong skills in PostgreSQL data modeling, query optimization, and migrations.

• Experience in scaling Postgres within production, covering connection pooling, replicas, or high availability setups.

• Knowledge of job queues and asynchronous processing, such as with Celery and Redis, including managing retries, idempotency, and troubleshooting failed jobs.

• Practical experience with payment APIs, particularly Stripe.

• Proven track record in building dependable third-party integrations, including webhooks, reconciliation, and managing vendor outages.

• Practical knowledge in authentication and role-based access control systems.

• Working familiarity with TypeScript and React.

• Experience in monitoring and debugging production systems using tools like Datadog.

• Willingness to participate in on-call duties.

• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of features from inception to completion within a small team and deliver iteratively.

• Effective use of AI coding tools while fully comprehending and taking responsibility for delivered work.

• Strong communication skills with non-engineers and an ability to give and receive constructive feedback.

• Nice to have: Experience with integrations involving Chariot or NGP Van.

• Nice to have: Experience in building features on LLM APIs, such as the Anthropic Claude API.

• Nice to have: Experience in handling transactional email at scale, such as with SendGrid.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with Redux Toolkit.

• Nice to have: Understanding of rate limiting and abuse prevention techniques.

• Nice to have: Background in political technology, fundraising, or fintech sectors.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity package.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) matching benefits.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).