Remote Volunteer Software Maintenance Engineer — iLevelUP

Help iLevelUP reduce technical debt and keep an educational platform reliable, secure, accessible, and maintainable for underserved youth and young people.

The volunteer Software Maintenance Engineer will address approved dependency, defect, refactoring, documentation, and lifecycle work across existing applications.

Responsibilities:

• Review assigned maintenance needs, technical debt, deprecations, defects, and dependency updates
• Reproduce issues and assess impact, risk, compatibility, security, and rollback needs
• Implement small, reviewable fixes and refactors with appropriate tests
• Update dependencies through approved workflows and verify release notes and breaking changes
• Improve code clarity, documentation, diagnostics, performance, and accessibility where in scope
• Participate in code review, regression testing, and release validation
• Maintain change notes and handoff documentation
• Protect credentials and use synthetic or approved nonproduction data
• Never deploy changes, perform broad rewrites, or access production data without authorization

Qualifications:

• Experience maintaining production web, mobile, API, or cloud software
• Strong debugging, code review, testing, Git, dependency management, and technical documentation
• Familiarity with secure development, accessibility, performance, compatibility, and CI/CD
• Patient, careful, and comfortable improving existing systems
• At least 18 years old and willing to complete screening and confidentiality requirements

This is a remote, project-based or recurring role. Expect approximately 3–7 hours per month.

Questions: volunteers@ilevelup.app

iLevelUP

107 Spring Street, 2nd Floor

Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 414-8043