Responsible for maintaining and evolving a production data and machine learning platform, ensuring reliability, architecture, and scalability of data products. Leads improvements, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and mentors junior members.
At MissionWired, we help our partners create revolutionary fundraising strategies that advance their mission, change our country, and have a positive impact on the world.
We help our partners tell big, ambitious stories that invite their supporters into communities to raise mission-changing revenue. Our results are unrivaled, having converted more than $4.5 billion in donations to the world’s most trusted philanthropies and groundbreaking campaigns. We do it over email and SMS, in the mail, across social media, everywhere. We don’t think in terms of channels; we’re single-minded in pursuit of your success.
We’re innovative, progress-obsessed, do-gooders who care deeply about social change and continuing to push the limits on what we can accomplish together. We’ve brought strategies to life for nonprofit organizations working around the world, including Sandy Hook Promise, Human Rights Watch, The Humane Society of the U.S., Save the Children, and Friends of the Earth. Over the years, we have worked with various progressive political organizations and believe that each election cycle is an opportunity for us to support organizations across the country and elect Democrats to legislative bodies up and down the ballot.
We’re an equal-opportunity employer and take seriously our commitment to equality and equity. Our efforts to be inclusive and create opportunity don’t end when someone joins us – they begin. We’ve set our sights on changing the world through our work and with our clients, and representation is at the foundation of what we do. We know that diversity of thought and background makes us stronger. That’s why we’re committed to building and maintaining a diverse community.
Every new team member broadens our perspective and allows us to think bigger. We’ll be at our best when people from underrepresented communities and people with a range of perspectives and lived experiences want to come, stay, and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Overview: We are looking for an experienced software engineer to own, maintain, and evolve our production data and machine learning platform. This role is responsible for the reliability, architecture, and scalability of the pipelines and systems that power our core data products, which transform millions of data points into unparalleled opportunities – supporting everything from electing Democrats to combating climate change throughout the world. With us, you’ll put your skills to use for disruptive innovation that powers social good.
You’ll join a product team that is deeply devoted to inclusion, particularly in the following three areas:
Process: We create a context in which everyone is empowered to contribute.
Machine Learning: We are committed to using the power of data to support important causes.
Philanthropy: We empower diverse groups of individuals to participate in giving.
With us, you’ll put your skills to use for innovation that powers social good. We want your ideas and your leadership. Join us. Let’s go!
You will be responsible for:
- Joining each and every one of your colleagues in creating an inclusive workspace;
- Owning, maintaining, and supporting the reliability, architecture, and evolution of our production machine learning and delivery platform;
- Designing, operating, and improving large scale Databricks/Spark pipelines and workflows
- Partner with our data scientists to productionize new data and ML-powered products;
- Leading improvements on the software integration layers between data pipelines and product workflows;
- Growing the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents, improving code quality, and improving team performance and processes;
- Acting as a senior technical owner in debugging complex production issues and improving system observability;
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support their data infrastructure needs.
Must-have qualifications:
- Extensive hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering production data pipelines or platforms in a mission critical environment
- Strong experience with Python in production systems
- Experience building and operating Spark or Databricks based pipelines
- Experience with SQL;
- Experience with at least one major cloud infrastructure provider (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience with supporting business-critical systems with on-call ownership
- Passion, energy, and excitement for progressive and philanthropic causes and all things digital.
Nice-to-have qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional experience;
- Experience building data-intensive applications and warehouses with Databricks;
- Experience with integrating production level applications with AWS;
- Experience supporting ML training or inference pipelines;
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
This position is included in a union-represented collective bargaining unit, and specific employment terms and conditions are subject to collective bargaining.
Salary
Salary range for this role is $107,000 to $120,000 per year, depending on experience.
Location
We are currently working remotely with no return to office date. Applicants may reside in the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MO, NE, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WA. Due to FL legislation, MissionWired is required to participate in e-verify.
Benefits
100% employer-paid premiums for platinum-level medical plan on a national health care network
100% employer-paid life insurance and short term disability
50% employer-paid vision and dental insurance
401(k) with 3% employer contribution
17 vacation days in addition to 12 paid holidays, sick days, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day off.
Paid parental leave at 100% of your salary
Financial support for reproductive and transgender care
Flexible telecommute and remote work policies
Company issued Mac products for home offices
Cell phone service reimbursement, meal and ride-share reimbursement, and other perks available
*Supporting your team on some nights and weekends as we approach high-volume times such as elections may be required.
If you feel you can do the job and are excited about this opportunity but are not sure if you meet all the qualifications, consider applying anyway. We’d love to hear from you!
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Databricks
GCP
Python
Spark
SQL
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