Responsibilities
- Lead and empower a mission-critical engineering team, balancing strategic scaling of core systems with ground-up innovation to tackle new challenges.
- Recruit, lead, and develop top-tier Frontend, Backend, and QA engineers, fostering individual growth, overseeing performance, and continuously advancing AI fluency in an ever-changing technological landscape.
- Foster a fast-paced and collaborative culture where engineers feel empowered, supported, and see the impact of their work on democracy.
- Collaborate on embedding AI deeply across our platform — from campaign tools to voter engagement features — in an empowering and responsible way.
- Drive clarity and momentum by balancing speed with thoughtful decision-making — you know when to ship fast and when to invest in long-term scalability.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to ideate, prototype, and ship user-facing features and internal tools quickly and iteratively.
- Guide the team through ambiguity, building MVPs to test hypotheses, and continuously improving based on feedback and data.
- Remove blockers, resolve technical challenges quickly, and keep teams focused on progress and outcomes.
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate development cycles, automate tasks, and support team productivity.
- Champion best practices that enable speed and quality, including clean architecture, code reviews, and scalable patterns.
- Balance leadership with technical contribution by dedicating approximately 25% of time to hands-on coding and architecture decisions.
- Report directly to the founding CTO and play a critical role in shaping the engineering culture and roadmap at a high-growth stage.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, including managing both frontend and backend focused engineers and owning product delivery.
- Built and scaled products in a startup or early-stage environment, and know how to work through ambiguity.
- Comfortable doing 0 to 1 work, leading greenfield builds, launching MVPs, and making pragmatic decisions with limited data.
- Confident developing across our tech stack — React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Postgres — and excited to lead in an AI-native environment.
- Worked with and are a champion of AI-native workflows for coding, including Cursor, OpenAI/Anthropic, Gemini/Perplexity, MCPs, and other similar tools.
- Bring strong opinions loosely held and advocate for engineering excellence, but are open to evolving with new ideas and team input.
- Track record of creating inclusive team cultures, mentoring engineers, and building feedback loops.
- Thrive in a remote, fast-paced environment, balancing strategic thinking with a bias toward action.
- Communicate clearly, directly, respectfully, and you’re open to delivering and receiving candid feedback that helps the team grow.
Nice to Have
- Experience working or volunteering in civic tech, democracy reform, campaigns, or social impact.
- Contributed to open-source projects or developer communities.
- Sick of sitting on the sidelines watching our democracy fail to meet its potential.
Benefits
- Join us in solving the biggest problem of our time – fixing our democracy – so all other problems can be solved.
- We’re a Public Benefit Corporation that prioritizes social impact over profit.
- Innovative Bitcoin denominated deferred bonus plan, allowing you to have the amazing upside of being in a startup while working on a truly meaningful mission.
- Work where and how you like, on a fully remote team spread across the country.
- Join a passionate team with diverse political views focused on one mission.
- 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents.
- Unlimited PTO (sick and vacation) policy.
- 401(k) program available so you can contribute toward retirement savings (no employer match).
- Individual learning & development budget to fund your growth.
- Workspace setup stipend to ensure you’ve got what you need to work remotely.
- If you work from home, we give $50/month to help with your internet and other expenses.
- If you prefer co-working, that’s an option we can discuss too.
- Fully funded for our mission. No stressing over whether the next round of funding will come through.
- Focus on making an impact. That’s what matters here.
Additional Information
- We are not considering candidates currently based outside of the US.
- We are not able to provide sponsorship for any of our roles at this time.
- You must be physically located in the US to apply.
