Nonprofit

Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer

Remote, Work can be performed from anywhere in United States
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  • Details

    Job Type:
    Full Time
    Start Date:
    July 21, 2025
    Application Deadline:
    July 14, 2025
    Education:
    Other Education Requirement
    Experience Level:
    Mid-level
    Salary:
    USD $90,000 - $95,000 / year
    Cause Areas:
    Civic Engagement

    Description

    Vote.org defends and strengthens democracy. In this role, you will work every day to make democracy work for everyone.

    We are seeking a Software Engineer proficient in full-stack Ruby on Rails development to join our product engineering team and contribute to the development and maintenance of our suite of online voting tools, which help tens of millions of people every election cycle register to vote, understand what is on their ballot, and obtain critical election information. You will be part of a dynamic, agile team reporting to our Chief Technology Officer and playing a key role in evolving our critical election infrastructure, performing at a high level, and strengthening our democracy.

    What You’ll Do:

    • Develop software for our voter-facing applications and internal tools
    • Produce high-quality code that is scalable, secure, and incorporates tests
    • Ensure production systems are always available and functioning properly
    • Participate in a flexible, rotating on-call product support schedule
    • Create technical and process documentation
    • Participate in team standups, backlog management, code reviews and retrospectives
    • Participate in improving and optimizing our technical processes and best practices
    • Support staff and partners across the organization in understanding and using our technology

    What You’ll Bring to the Table:

    • Ruby on Rails engineering experience
    • Rspec testing experience
    • Programming expertise using third-party APIs
    • Relational database/SQL programming experience
    • Development experience using a CI/CD platform
    • Comfort using a shared version control platform
    • Strong team collaboration skills
    • A proactive approach to problem solving,
    • Comfortable wearing multiple hats on a small, often busy team

    Desired Qualifications:

    • Heroku development
    • AWS Development
    • Redis
    • Gatsby CMS
    • A CS degree or equivalent work experience

    Vote.org defends and strengthens democracy. In this role, you will work every day to make democracy work for everyone.

    We are seeking a Software Engineer proficient in full-stack Ruby on Rails development to join our product engineering team and contribute to the development and maintenance of our suite of online voting tools, which help tens of millions of people every election cycle register to vote, understand what is on their ballot, and obtain critical election information. You will be part of a dynamic, agile team reporting to our Chief Technology Officer and playing a key role in evolving our critical election infrastructure, performing at a high level, and strengthening our democracy.

    What You’ll Do:

    • Develop software for our voter-facing applications and internal tools
    • Produce high-quality code that is scalable, secure, and incorporates tests
    • Ensure production systems are always available and functioning properly
    • Participate in a flexible…

    Benefits

    • Employee Assistance Program
    • Financial Wellbeing Program
    • Caregiver Support Program
    • Training and Development
    • MarketPlaceTM Perks at Work
    • Commuter Benefits Program

    Benefits for full-time employees

    • Insperity Group Health Plan

    (medical, dental and vision)

    • Insperity Health Care Flexible Spending

    Account Plan

    • Insperity Health Savings Account Program
    • Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
    • Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
    • Health Care Support Program
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Employee Assistance Program
    • Financial Wellbeing Program
    • Caregiver Support Program
    • Training and Development
    • MarketPlaceTM Perks at Work
    • Commuter Benefits Program

    Benefits for full-time employees

    • Insperity Group Health Plan

    (medical, dental and vision)

    • Insperity Health Care Flexible Spending

    Account Plan

    • Insperity Health Savings Account Program
    • Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
    • Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
    • Health Care Support Program
    • Adoption Assistance Program

    Level of Language Proficiency

    • Ruby on Rails
    • API Development
    • CI/CD Tools
    • AWS
    • Active Record
    • HTM/ CSS
    • Full Stack
    • Bootcamp Grads
    • Self-taught developers
    • People with a different degree from computer science but with strong experience.
    • Ruby on Rails
    • API Development
    • CI/CD Tools
    • AWS
    • Active Record
    • HTM/ CSS
    • Full Stack
    • Bootcamp Grads
    • Self-taught developers
    • People with a different degree from computer science but…

    Location

    Remote
    Work can be performed from anywhere in United States
    Associated Location
    Washington, DC, USA

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