Senior Software Engineer

The role

Scale to Win supports organizations to engage with supporters and voters through one-on-one conversations over both text messaging and phone calls. Data tells us that this approach can result in deeper social change – and, if done at sufficient scale, can influence the outcome of elections. We’ve powered the texting and calling programs for thousands of campaigns and organizations ranging from the Kamala Harris presidential campaign and the DNC, to House and Senate campaigns for AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Beto O’Rorke, and Mark Kelly, to unions like the AFL-CIO and UFCW, and 3000+ other campaigns, including dozens of progressive downballot candidates endorsed by the Working Families party, DSA, and Justice Democrats.

At Scale To Win you’ll have no shortage of interesting programming projects to work on – from our realtime web interfaces, to our interfacing with texting and telephony providers, to handling the scale we reach during elections (tens of thousands of requests per second, write-heavy database loads, and pushing the limits of our upstream telephony vendors). You won’t be solving them alone: you’ll have the support of our team of engineers who have worked hard to make sure we can deploy new features and scale smoothly without the fear of alerts going off.

Now is an exciting moment for Scale To Win – based on our success in the 2020, 2022, and 2024 elections, we’re expanding our suite of texting and calling tools to build best-in-class products for supporting the fundraising and distributed organizing programs of the most important movement groups, campaigns, nonprofits, and unions in the Democratic and progressive ecosystem.

About you

• You write clean, readable, and maintainable code and are willing to prioritize quality to guard against errors in production.
• You have experience with some aspects of scaling web applications – either through software testing, release management, dev-ops, or another aspect of software engineering. You’re comfortable joining our night and weekend on-call rotation.
• Our primary stack is Javascript/Typescript and React (with a little Elm thrown in), Node, and Postgres on AWS managed with Terraform - experience in all of these technologies is not required but you likely know your way around a couple of these.
• You’re OK with longer hours in the lead-up to elections. We’re a small team working to support the demands of 7-day-a-week campaigns, so we collectively designate the weeks before major elections as “high-intensity periods” when we expect to work longer-than-normal hours. We work together to keep these periods manageable, and schedule recovery periods after so we can all take some extra time off.
• If you identify as belonging to a community that is underrepresented in technology companies, then we strongly encourage you to apply even if you are unsure. The organizations we work with advocate for many of these communities and we believe it’s essential that organizations should reflect the communities that they represent.
• You’re motivated by doing work that has a positive impact on the world.

The offer

• $200k yearly salary, plus discretionary bonuses during election years. As part of our commitment to equity, salaries are non-negotiable: everyone in the same role receives the same salary.
• Generous paid vacation (up to 24 days a year with time accrued monthly); paid sick leave; paid short-term medical, caregiver, bereavement, and other personal leave.
• 10 company holidays, 2 floating holidays, and a weeklong holiday break at the end of the year.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave and an additional 4 weeks of part-time, fully-paid flex time. This is available to all new parents of any gender, including adoptive parents.
• Fully-paid premium, $0 deductible, top-notch medical insurance, as well as dental and vision insurance, for you and your dependents.
• Remote working with flexible working conditions, a stipend to support your home office setup, and access to a company computer.
• Every employee is invited to donate 25,000 free texts to a non-profit of their choice each year.