Murmuration

Senior/Staff Software Engineer

United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 49 days ago

Backend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentData VisualizationNLPIncident ResponseExcelResearchLeadership

About the role

The initial stages of this process include a recruiter screen, followed by a hiring manager interview.
The hiring manager then determines the level after that conversation based on demonstrated experience and scope.
If you're unsure which level fits you, apply anyway.

Responsibilities

Note: The scope and organizational reach of "Lead Beyond Explorer" work will differ by level.
building a new product from the ground up while raising the bar for how our entire engineering organization works.
Murmuration builds technology that helps our partner organizations strengthen civic engagement and organize more effectively in their communities.
Our products weave together engagement, outreach, demographic, and voter data with intuitive applications that help partners better understand and act within the communities they serve.
Our team is intentionally multidisciplinary and partner-focused.
We build complex, data-driven systems that need to work reliably during critical moments, scale as our partners grow, and remain understandable and maintainable as communities and their needs evolve.
You and the team will build Explorer's core platform and user experience, expanding a near-greenfield code base to design, build, and evolve secure backend services, interactive data visualizations, and responsive user interfaces.
Your commitment to building inclusive, high-trust, high-performing teams is visible across the technology organization.
And you believe, like we do, that how we build is just as important as what we build.
design and build the systems and architectures that will serve Explorer for years, with scale, reliability, security, and maintainability as first-class concerns;

Requirements

Experience with event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns
solid understanding of the tradeoffs among different event-driven architectures with the ability to defend one choice over the other
Comfort making sound decisions with imperfect information
Ability to communicate and defend well-reasoned solutions through written documentation, sharing context, what alternatives were considered, and how conclusions were reached
Proven experience in designing objectives aligned with division and organizational goals, anticipating technical challenges and proposing solutions before they become blockers
Proven strategies to involve the right people, delegate clearly, communicate consistently, and follow through as an owner until an objective is delivered
and Ability to multiply team and engineering effectiveness through technical leadership, tooling, infrastructure, and process improvements.
Ability to represent engineering effectively in cross-functional discussions, leading alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders on complex, multi-team initiatives
Experience taking a product from beta to general availability, navigating the operational, quality, and cross-functional demands of a production launch
Experience driving secure coding practices, data privacy principles, and access control patterns as applied in production systems

Benefits

We succeed together by aligning planning, execution, and learning across engineering, product, design, research, data, and partner success.

Company info

At Murmuration, we believe that America's promise is shaped and reshaped by the best ideas and ideals of its communities, and the dreams of the people who believe in a better life for themselves, their families, and each other.
We help organizations build power in their communities in four key ways: we organize a network of values-aligned partners; we provide deep, data-driven insights into people, places, and perspectives; we develop tools that make organizing and engagement easy and more effective; and we offer services that strengthen our partners' capacity to lead change in their communities.
We envision an America where every community has what it needs to help people lead healthy, free, and dignified lives.
We work to redesign the systems and structures we all depend on - how we learn, live, govern, and solve problems - so that they are just, equitable, resilient, and rooted in shared responsibility.
By strengthening the ties that hold communities together, we aim for civic life defined by collective action and care, with effective leadership that truly represents everyone.
We are a collaborative, curious, and creative team of organizers, scientists, teachers, technologists, campaign veterans, and more who share the unwavering belief that we can use our gifts in service of transforming America - together.
We've built our team guided by the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
And so we support each other relentlessly - rallying together to face challenges the same way we celebrate each other's wins.
About the Position Do you see yourself as a mission-driven engineer who believes that great products emerge from strong teams?
Do you thrive in inclusive, thoughtful environments where engineers hold themselves to high standards of technical excellence, ownership, and impact at scale?
We are seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to contribute to one of our most ambitious efforts: building a new product from the ground up while raising the bar for how our entire engineering organization works.
As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer, you will join the Explorer Team as we evolve the product into general availability from its pilot implementation.
Explorer is a data visualization product that facilitates political data exploration using interactive maps, charts, and exportable tables, supplemented by an NLP-powered search function.
On this small, close-knit team, you will establish the engineering patterns, operational foundations, and testing strategies needed to evolve Explorer into a secure, reliable, GA-ready platform.
You will also produce high-quality documentation that improves knowledge sharing, onboarding, and the long-term maintainability of the product.
In addition to your Explorer work, you will serve as a senior technical resource across multiple projects, applying your expertise to solving some of the organization's most complex challenges.
This role is suited for a deeply experienced individual contributor whose technical judgment and engineering rigor raises the quality of deliverables across the entire organization.
You excel in near-greenfield settings where product priorities and direction can shift rapidly.
Senior Software Engineer (P4) and Staff Software Engineer (P5).

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