Catalist

Washington, DC | Posted: 5 years ago

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Configure, develop, support, and maintain software components for a web-based content management platform and custom software applications


• Be a contributing engineer on a team of engineers


• Work closely with engineering, political, and data science staff to understand functional software requirements


• Participate in the process for translating software requirements into working systems and solutions


• Decompose and estimate your task assignments


• Support verification and validation of software solutions


• Support deployment and configuration updates to software component


• Create, develop, and maintain technical product documentation, including user guides, specifications, design and implementation plans, project plans, issue tickets, etc.


• Provide technical feedback to team members on product features and designs, and receive feedback from them


• Adjust working schedule (occasional evenings and weekends) as workload demands

Skills & Abilities:

• Required: Web application software design and development skills.


• Required: Experience developing and maintaining a PHP-based content management platform OR experience with Javascript and an associated web development frameworks like React


• Required: Basic to intermediate SQL skills


• Required: Basic understanding of WWW network protocols


• Required: High attention to detail – across process, data, design, and engineering


• Required: Strong work ethic and self-starting motivation


• Required: Dynamic problem solving skills


• Required: Ability to articulate ideas clearly, to be creative, and to work in a personable manner


• Desirable: Java, Scala, or Python software design and development skills


• Desirable: Strong working knowledge of SQL


• Desirable: Ability to self-educate on new technical skills


• Desirable: Solid understanding of data formats, representations, and encodings
  

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Political Science or equivalent experience


• Demonstrated experience with web application development


• Experience with at least one RDBMS – PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, etc.


• Previous campaign technology development experience is a plus


• Experience with campaign and voter file data tools (e.g. VAN, PDI, Q, or M) a plus


• Background check required

Benefits Package

Catalist lives our progressive values and our benefits package is one of the ways we support our team and employees. Our benefits include:

• Life and Disability Benefits


• Health and Dental insurance


• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)


• Transportation Benefits


• Retirement contributions


• Continuing education disbursement


• Student loan and/or educational savings account contributions


• Parental leave, including flexible scheduling and remote working