Movement Labs

Software/Data Engineer

Movement Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $23 per hour

About the role

  • Build tools that directly support progressive campaigns and organizers in election season (Polling Place images, etc)
  • Work with our Core Data Team on precinct election results and data analysis
  • Contribute to internal tooling, automations, and infrastructure to improve team workflows
  • Build, test, and maintain backend systems, including agentic AI pipelines or experimental prototypes
  • Write clean, well-documented code to support operations and innovation
  • Take a systematic approach to tasks: define goals, structure work, document outcomes
  • Stay organized in the face of ambiguity; prioritize well and manage time independently
  • Sweat the small stuff: flag edge cases, catch bugs early, follow naming conventions, write good commit messages

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree OR four years of professional experience that demonstrates an ability to succeed in our hardworking and complex environment.
  • Demonstrated interest in progressive politics, campaigns, or organizing, through professional experience, volunteering, or coursework.
  • Commitment to fulltime work for duration of the Fellowship, including participation in all Fellowship meetings and trainings.
  • Successful fellows are flexible, able to nimbly shift as priorities change, learn quickly, and are willing to do what needs to be done in our fast-paced, quickly evolving environment.
  • **General skills:**
  • Passionate about progressive politics and leveraging data, technology, organizing and research to build political power
  • Demonstrated detail-orientation with excellent follow through
  • Ability to work independently and manage workload in remote environment
  • **Our preferred candidate will have many of these characteristics and experience:**
  • Coding experience, especially in Python, JavaScript, SQL, or other programming languages (personal projects, coursework, or internships all count!)
  • A strong interest in using tech and data for progressive political change
  • A systematic and organized working style
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools and skills
  • Clear communication and attention to detail
  • Comfort working in a remote, fast-paced, and experimental environment
  • Familiarity with agentic AI systems or pipelines
  • Experience using tools like GitHub and the Google Cloud suite
  • Exposure to messaging systems (e.g. SMS/MMS)
  • Experience with organizing, campaign work, or grassroots activism
Benefits
  • $23/hour, 30-40 hours a week (workload may vary some from week to week)
  • This is a fulltime, temporary, hourly position, which includes sick time accrual, paid lunch break, and paid holidays
  • This short-term Fellowship is intended to train and develop leaders in the progressive political space through professional experience, skill building, and training. While we do not guarantee continuation at the organization, strong Fellows may be offered longer term roles
  • Priority deadline for applications is February 20.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScriptSQLbackend systemsdata analysisagentic AI pipelinesclean codeautomationexperimental prototypesdetail orientation
Soft Skills
flexibilityindependent worktime managementsystematic approachclear communicationcuriosityattention to detailorganizational skillsability to prioritizewillingness to learn