Engineering Manager, Internal Tools

WHO WE ARE:

ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact in order to fuel long-term, people-powered change. If you’ve ever given online to a Democrat or progressive organization, chances are you’ve used our powerful online fundraising platform.

We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and help thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations — build grassroots movements. We envision a democracy where everyone looking to make progressive people-powered change can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to shape our country and futures. Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the Internal Tools team within ActBlue’s growing engineering department. ActBlue processes millions in contributions a day for thousands of campaigns and organizations; Internal Tools’ critical work ensures that our internal workflows are reliable and efficient and serve the complex needs of our users at scale. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Expertly lead a diverse team of software engineers through building and maintaining crucial elements of our payments product and internal tooling.
• Support the professional development of your direct reports with supportive and constructive feedback, goal-setting, regular check-ins, and performance reviews.
• Work with engineers, product managers, and UX leads to formulate roadmaps that align with our strategic organizational themes and goals. Collaborate on an ongoing basis to achieve them. 
• Ensure your team delivers on their roadmap and achieves the target strategic outcomes of their work.
• Enable your team to learn fast while consistently delivering value by prioritizing frequent delivery of small iterations of work.
• Drive essential communication between teams to ensure timely, high-quality results that further organizational goals. Resolve blockers and proactively escalate concerns.
• Consistently provide your team with the context and resources they need to achieve their goals.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering department’s leadership to cultivate a work environment where everyone can thrive.
• Facilitate technical decision-making with an emphasis on maintainability, scalability, and performance, ensuring that complex workflows align with best practices, software development methodologies, and coding standards.
• Oversee the end-to-end software development process while championing a user-centric approach to iterating and improving on product features.
• Promote strong and transparent communication channels both internally and with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization.

WHAT YOU BRING:

• People management experience: 3-5+ years of experience supporting a team of individual contributors at multiple levels, fostering their professional development, and enhancing team performance. 
• Experience building user-centric engineering products.
• Expertise and creativity when it comes to delivering value fast, with a focus on MVPs, frequent deployments, scope negotiations, and demos. 
• Experience helping teams optimize their collaborations and results using regular feedback loops, retrospectives, experimentation, and iteration.
• Strong understanding of and experience with industry best practices for managing software development, particularly agile processes and roles/responsibilities.
• Strong leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trust and consensus across teams and stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with a team-centric and remote-reliant approach to discussion and collaboration.
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, and fostering a strong sense of belonging on teams.
• Experience providing project management and organizational support on complex technical projects from end to end that deliver timely and effective results.
• A successful track record with recruiting, retaining, and growing engineering teams.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the desire to cultivate this in your team.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE…

• Background or experience in electoral politics and/or the political technology space.
• Previous experience in payments, B2B, and/or two-sided marketplaces.
• Previous experience working with Ruby on Rails and React.

LOCATION AND COMPENSATION: 

This posting is for a full-time, remote, salaried position. ATS is currently authorized to support remote work employees in California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C. and Wisconsin.

Salary Range Details:

Salary Range: $173,676 - $192,209 - $210,741

ActBlue is committed to consistent compensation practices across our organization.  Final salary offers will take into account factors such as candidate experience, interview performance and current team salary parity.

BENEFITS:

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability 
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees 
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

Supervisory role not part of the Bargaining Unit position: Certain employees who report to this position may be covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

INCLUSION STATEMENT:

ActBlue is deeply committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity. We commit to retaining, developing, recruiting, and hiring a diverse staff community. We honor the dignity of all. We celebrate their unique qualities. And we recognize the wide range of human differences, backgrounds, and intersectional identities that enrich the workspace and help us better meet our mission. If you feel a connection to our mission and see your interests reflected in this job description we encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet every requirement. 

ActBlue is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the interview and employment process, including using our online system to apply for a position. If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at recruitment@actblue.com to get started.