Software Engineer Manager

Software Engineer Manager

Join CitizenGO as an impactful Software Engineer Manager and lead a dynamic team committed to advancing our mission to defend life, family, and freedom!

Your expertise will drive innovative projects that make a real-world difference and help shape the future of our technology and advocacy efforts. Reporting directly to the Director of Technology, you will lead and mentor the Software Engineering team, fostering a collaborative environment. If you are passionate about leveraging your skills to make a difference, join us now!

Top 10 reasons to work for CitizenGO:

Join the CitizenGO team and be a part of a vibrant, mission-driven community that's making a tangible difference in the world. Here are the top 10 reasons why working with us is a unique and rewarding experience: 

1. Make an Impact: You will engage in meaningful work defending life, family, and freedom, and see the direct impact of your efforts in changing the world.
2. We’re Winning: You will join a successful team! Our campaigning works, and we’re changing politics and policies across the world. Check out some of our recent victories here. 
3. Bold Tactics: We employ innovative and effective strategies, from launching petitions to rallying on the streets, to win campaigns.
4. Independent Strategy: Our actions are driven by our members, not large funders, ensuring we prioritize what’s best for the world.
5. Thriving Under Pressure: We excel in challenging environments, fearlessly facing off against powerful adversaries without backing down.
6. Inspirational Teammates: You will work alongside helpful, kind, motivated, and talented individuals dedicated to our common goals.
7. Remote Flexibility: You will enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere, eliminating commutes and allowing you the flexibility to travel and live on your terms.
8. Flexible Hours: You will benefit from adaptable work hours, ensuring you can be there for others and manage your day as you see fit.
9. Connected Community: Though fully remote, our team fosters a close-knit environment that feels anything but distant.
10. Focus on Results: We value efficiency and outcomes over long hours, promoting a balanced life and preventing burnout.

See our culture page for more!

Responsibilities

• Lead the Software team.
• Provide mentorship for junior and intermediate engineers on his team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities/skills and remove blockers to their autonomy. 
• Develop effective ways to communicate, monitor, and lead his team through asynchronous communication. Participate in code reviews, bug fixing, improving developer experience, and smooth edges.
• Learning and spreading technical knowledge throughout CitizenGO team members, moving knowledge to the documentation if needed, understanding bus-factor, and training others.
• Continuously improve our build and deployment automation. 
• Collaborate across various disciplines and roles (managers, campaigners, designers) to help set technical roadmaps that will achieve organizational goals through engineering best practices. Work across our tech, campaigns, and operations teams.
• Architect systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Protect and secure the data of our members.
• Know industry trends and be up to date with modern technologies.
• Actively recruit, onboard, and train new engineers/programmers at CitizenGO. This might involve tweaking the skills portions of interviews, or writing better documentation.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
  
  

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Django, React, and its main Frameworks, JavaScript, and SQL.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform products like Compute Engine and BigQuery.
• Effective communication skills: regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Good strategic, creative, and innovative thinking.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Passion and commitment to human dignity, life, family, liberty, citizen empowerment, and social change.
• High professionalism, self-motivation, efficiency, and results-oriented delivery on short timelines.
• Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative team culture and a hierarchical team structure.
• Strong project and staff management skills.
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing conditions and requirements.
• Fluency in English is a requirement. Duolingo English Test is required for all non-natives with a minimum 100 (B2 equivalent) score. Spanish and other additional languages are an asset.
  
  

Benefits 

Vacation & Holidays: You will enjoy 24 vacation days per year and observe local public holidays. We also offer various types of leave, such as parental, sick medical, and bereavement leave.

Attractive Benefits: You will embrace the freedom of working remotely with CitizenGO, featuring flexible hours and a consistent 40-hour work week. Benefit from our tuition reimbursement program (up to €500 per year), language courses (USD120 per month on iTalki), and an annual Christmas gift. You will receive one free book per month (up to €30).

Practical Assistance for Your Success:  We equip you with essential tools for excellence, including Chromebooks, mobile phone lines, and smartphones for select positions. We will enhance your work comfort with our home office setup allowance (up to €500 every two years) and coworking memberships (up to €200 per month).

Innovative Technology: CitizenGO grants access to Copy.ai, an AI-powered copywriting platform, and Grammarly, designed to enhance the quality of your writing.

Engaging Meetups: You will Connect and collaborate with your colleagues during our annual retreats, evaluation meetings, mini-retreats, conferences, summits, and meetups.

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Ready to Make a Difference? Apply Now!