Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Who We're Looking For

We’re looking for engineers who have at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience and for whom the following values and concepts resonate:

• 💡 Eager, excited mentors. You are excited to work on a variety of products and help level up your teammates who work on different parts of the stack.

• 💁 Customer-first orientation. You empathize with our clients’ needs and you care about building things the right way in order to create experiences that people will love.

• 📡 Clear, thoughtful communication. You know that having everyone on the same page is critical for success and openly share your ideas and concerns with your teammates!

• 🤸🏾‍♂️ Conscientious + Flexible. As a remote team, we all have different working styles, and we encourage you to find the balance that suits you best. You and your teammates can decide when to pair and when to fly solo.

As a valued member of our engineering team, you’ll make an impact by doing the following:

• 🏗 Architect, build, and deploy new features daily, across our growing product lines including the CRM, payment processing, grassroots fundraising / digital collectibles platform, and more. Help refine, develop, and estimate timelines for new products on our roadmap.

• 🥞 Bolster our backend, while building across the stack – we use a Ruby/Rails backend with a custom Ruby service object pattern that delivers data to a TypeScript/React/Apollo frontend using GraphQL.

• 🏭 Scale and optimize our data + hosting infrastructure – we're hosted on Heroku and use Postgres, Redis, Memcache, and some Elasticsearch for our various data needs.

• 🧪 Write just enough tests to find greater peace of mind 🧘 – we test with RSpec (Ruby), Jest (React), and Cypress (end-to-end).

• 👯‍♂️ Review pull requests and mentor teammates in areas where you have particular strengths. Help with interviewing and recruiting new engineers to join our team!

We don’t need candidates to be able to do all of the above on day one – in fact, we expect all engineers to grow into their roles and level up over time. We’re all learners at heart and happily invest in our teammates through mentorship, pair programming, and projects that grow their technical skills. We even developed an onboarding course of all new engineers called 👨🏻‍🏫 Numero Escuela 🎒 📓

What We Offer

We are a small, tight-knit, and diverse team building products that are used every day by some of our country’s most important elected leaders and their staff. In addition to offering challenging projects and rewarding work, we offer competitive salaries and generous equity.

We know that early employees like you are taking a chance on us as much as we are on you, so we compensate you accordingly:

• Salary Range: $140K - $160K + Equity

We also want to empower you to do the best work of your career. To do that, we provide the following benefits:

• 🏖 Flexible PTO (including a minimum of two weeks of required leave each year)

• 🏥 High quality medical, dental, and vision benefits

• 🐣 Eight weeks of paid parental leave

• 💻 New Macbook Pro with your choice of monitor, accessories, and headphones

• 🏡 $500 for your work-from-home setup (we currently work remotely).

• 📚 $500/year professional development budget for books, courses, conferences, etc. 

You’ll also have the opportunity to work closely with our founding team and angel investors who have deep experience at the intersection of politics and technology.

Interested?

To apply, submit the application below sharing a bit about why you're excited to work at Numero, your resume, and links to any public online profiles (e.g. Github, LinkedIn, etc) you’d like to share.

If it seems like we might be a good fit, we’ll schedule a quick 30 minute call to chat about your past work and go from there. Go for it! We can’t wait to hear from you! 🙂