Senior Software Engineer

NationBuilder is the world's first software platform for leaders. Instead of managing your database, website, communications, and fundraising separately, NationBuilder gives you one smart system to grow your community and lead people to action.

As a senior developer you’ll help us architect, build and maintain our main codebase as well as ancillary services. You’ll recommend and implement system-wide improvements, new technologies, and contribute to our technological direction.

**You:** * Are always interested in learning new things. * Get excited when you have the chance to pair. * Practice test-driven development and judicious refactoring. * Enjoy being responsive to customer feedback. * Are a pragmatic problem solver, knowing how to find the middle ground between “perfect, but takes forever to code” and “fixes it now, but nobody will ever be able to understand what I did” * Work well in small teams with a clear mission. * Have the insight to know whats important and the dedication to get it done. **We are looking for:** * While existing experience with the technologies we use is welcome, an open and disciplined approach to your work is more important to us than whether you already know Ruby, Rails or anything else in our stack. We value the willingness to learn our technologies and environment over domain-specific skills. * Have at least 3-5 years of professional development experience **Our Stack:** Our application is primarily Ruby on Rails with some additional Ruby and Go services. Configuration management is via Puppet. The majority of our data is in PostgreSQL with additional supporting data in MongoDB and Redis. We're hosted in our own datacenter with a little AWS mixed in.