Senior Software Engineer

ActBlue

Senior Software Engineer II leading technical initiatives to improve donor experiences at ActBlue. Collaborating across teams to create reliable systems and impactful solutions.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $173,676 - $210,741 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerGraphQLJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsPostgresReactRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with your team to architect, refactor, and improve donor and entity user experiences.
Lead the technical execution of large, cross-team initiatives, working with multiple engineers to design and implement solutions that balance high-impact opportunities with effort, scope, and technical tradeoffs.
Break down initiative-level work across multiple epics and contribute technical expertise to shape the team's roadmap prioritization.
Partner with designers and product managers to help shape the team's roadmap, anticipating important information needs from stakeholders to inform project work and proactively raising potential competing product interests.
Serve as a technical consultant and go-to resource for engineers across teams on complex architectural decisions, system design, and best practices.
Collaboratively develop and champion best practices and design patterns to improve the maintainability of the platform.
Demonstrate technical leadership through writing documentation, establishing effective testing and monitoring, and fostering clear and audience-oriented communication.
Coach and mentor multiple members of the team, creating professional development opportunities and fostering a culture of seeking feedback as a tool for growth.
Create spaces for individuals to be engaged, valued, and heard, setting examples and cultural expectations around inclusivity within the team.
Receive support from your manager to grow as an individual and increase your impact on the success of your team and the progressive movement.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5-8+ years of relevant professional experience, with demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives involving multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity.
Professional experience working with React and TypeScript to develop frontend features from design and discovery through to deployment and monitoring.
Professional experience working with Ruby on Rails to make changes to APIs in order to carry a feature to completion.
Professional experience with PostgreSQL and GraphQL, including designing efficient data models and APIs that support scalable, maintainable systems.
Proficiency with Git/GitHub and Docker as part of a professional software development workflow, with experience collaborating across distributed codebases.
A strong understanding of performance, scalability, and security best practices, with ability to recommend system-level improvements to mitigate concerns for broad systems; familiarity with OAuth/OIDC/JWT authentication patterns is a plus.
Track record of leading large projects that involve multiple engineers, complex requirements, and ambiguity from conception through delivery.
Experience designing simple, maintainable solutions to complex problems using well-accepted design patterns informed by industry experience; exposure to microservices or micro-frontend architecture is a plus.
Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders and to collaboratively translate business requirements and strategic goals into technical solutions, modifying communication style to fit the audience.
Track record of working closely with product and design teams to iterate on and refine product requirements, with ability to break down initiative-level work and contribute to roadmap prioritization.
Experience serving as a technical consultant and trusted resource for engineers seeking guidance on architecture, system design, and complex debugging; familiarity with Node.js/Express.js or Kubernetes in a professional context is a plus.
Comfort with or curiosity about AI coding assistants (such as Claude Code) as productivity tools within an engineering workflow.
An inclusive, generous working style: you like to mentor, collaborate, and elevate your team by supporting your peers, providing coaching and guidance to multiple team members, and anticipating where your intervention would be helpful.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

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Hard Skills & Tools

ReactTypeScriptRuby on RailsPostgreSQLGraphQLGitGitHubDockerOAuthJWT

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvinginclusivityfeedbackstakeholder engagementroadmap prioritization