Swing Left · 3 months ago
Senior Director of Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$135K/yr - $140K/yr
8+ years expSwing Left is a nonprofit organization focused on maximizing grassroots impact for Democratic elections. The Senior Director of Engineering will lead the engineering team in developing and maintaining the technical infrastructure necessary to support the organization's programs, ensuring effective volunteer engagement and organizational goals.
Association
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Oversee the creation of technical strategy and architecture for the organization’s engineering infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, and security
Develop proactive capacity and resourcing plans to support the organization’s current and future engineering needs, manage the hiring of new engineers, and onboard engineering contractors (where required) to supplement capacity
Foster a cohesive, healthy, and high-performing engineering team culture, including the adoption of best practices for the software development lifecycle
Collaborate with the product team on the product roadmap by understanding relevant internal and external technical needs and how to solve them with working, high-quality, scalable software that is aligned with organizational infrastructure
Lead the technical implementation of the product development lifecycle to ship high-quality, well-tested code; oversee prioritization of tactical backlogs and estimation of technical scopes of work for large projects
Act as the organization’s lead engineering representative for relationships with key partners, including those involved in Ground Truth
Proactively identify and mitigate technical and operational risks, including through continuous monitoring of health metrics and alerts for our platforms
Lead the technical aspect of organizational rapid-response efforts as needed
Qualification
Required
A strong interest in and alignment with the distinct missions and values of Swing Left and Vote Forward
At least eight years of experience in software engineering and development
At least five years of experience in an engineering management role
Experience supporting data analysis in close collaboration with data analysis or data science experts
Experience overseeing website development and maintenance using cloud services such as Google Cloud and AWS, web hosting platforms like Vercel and Heroku, and web frameworks such as React-Query and Next.js
Experience writing, reviewing, and debugging programs in multiple programming and scripting languages such as Javascript (Node.js), Python, and HTML
Experience creating and implementing sustainable processes for delivering usable, readable, and maintainable code with robust automated testing
Experience with database management, access, and operation using SQL (or similar languages)
Experience with modern data engineering tools and frameworks such as Fivetran, Airbyte, Snowflake, DBT, Dagster, or Lightdash
Ability to lead a distributed team and collaborate effectively across functions in a virtual workplace
Excitement about joining and contributing to a culture rooted in impact, innovation, and ambition; comfort with ambitious goals, ambiguous requirements, and high expectations for performance
Commitment to equity and belonging across all identities, including but not limited to race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ability; ability to hear, reflect, act on, and learn from feedback related to identity and equity
Preferred
Experience with tools and platforms that are commonly used within the progressive tech ecosystem (such as NGP VAN / EveryAction, ActionKit, and ActBlue) is a plus
Experience with using large language models to extract insights from unstructured datasets is a plus
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance: 100% of the premium paid for employees and 50% for dependents
Health and dependent care FSA accounts
Employer-paid life and disability insurance
Retirement plan
Professional development, remote work and technology stipends
An unlimited time-off policy + a flexible medical and parental leave policy
Our office is closed for approximately 25 business days each year (including federal holidays)
Company
Swing Left
Swing Left is dedicated to promoting the election of democrats in order to preserve their democracy.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
unknown2019-07-17Seed
Leadership Team
Ethan Todras-Whitehill
Board Chair and Co-Founder
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