Staff Software Engineer Full Time

Summary:

• Murmuration is a nonprofit organization focused on amplifying civic engagement by providing data, digital tools, and research-driven insights to community-focused organizations.
• The organization helps create a more equitable America by empowering people to tackle critical issues, such as safe drinking water, equitable schools, and sensible gun laws.
• Murmuration’s partners utilize data, tools, and insights to mobilize millions of people, striving to create the world they want together.
• The Staff Software Engineer will develop and maintain software components while ensuring feature delivery aligns with technical standards and project timelines.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software aligned with specifications & designs, ensuring code is well-tested, maintainable, and documented.
• Work autonomously with minimal oversight, delivering production-ready solutions that prioritize long-term maintainability and supportability.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for your team’s product, contributing to complex algorithmic tasks, feature designs, and broader technical standards.
• Create, communicate, and defend design decisions to your team and the broader engineering organization through demo sessions, chapter meetings, and architecture reviews.
• Take ownership of Jira epics or large tasks, driving them to completion and demonstrating work to ensure requirements are met.
• Manage builds, releases, and change log creation while adapting development efforts to align with the team’s SDLC.
• Oversee engineering briefs, review architectural design documents, and maintain a customer-centric approach while supporting team members through regular check-ins and feedback.
• Mentor engineers through facilitating pull-request reviews for your team, paired programming sessions, and technical guidance on design & best practices.
• Be the team’s designated Tech-Lead, which includes the following responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with Product to refine Jira tasks, estimate effort for development activities, and align Pod priorities with roadmap timelines.
  • Oversee Jira standards for the team’s work, ensuring work is scoped properly with clear & tangible acceptance criteria.
  • Identify and document technical debt, translating it into actionable tickets for review.
  • Oversee and review Pod technical work, ensuring feature stability and adherence to the application’s architecture.

Requirements:

• 10 – 15 years’ experience.
• BS, BA in Computer Science or other related degree (boot camp(s) and/or work experience can be substituted for degree requirements).
• Mastery in Typescript/Javascript or a similar functional programming language, including understanding threading or multi-processing.
• Working knowledge of AWS Lambdas or AWS Fargate.
• Mastery of a standard IDE for code development.
• Familiarity with a standard code repository (e.g., git).
• Familiarity with the standard package manager used by Node.
• Demonstrated proficiency in deploying the framework.
• Familiarity with one CI/CD framework.
• Experience designing and developing product features from design to production deployment.
• Previous experience supporting a production environment.
• Ability to demonstrate good communication skills, including the ability to define and defend positions clearly.
• Ability to document a design, component, or workflow they have working knowledge of.
• Ability to create and design technical workflows and break larger projects into smaller workable components.

Benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members.
• Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match.
• Flexible unlimited PTO plan.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible remote work environment.
• Home office setup stipend for new employees.
• Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses.
• Yearly professional development fund.
• Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help.
• Yearly in-person staff retreats.
• A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.