As a frontend software engineer, you’ll lead our UX development work both within CTA and with our partners developing and creating solutions to make data easier to understand and act on.

Our infrastructure leverages powerful open-source and cloud-based tools, including Google BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Airbyte (ELT/ETL), and dbt. We use ReactJS, Webpack, and other modern client-side tooling to develop our Chrome Extension and web applications on the front-end. We also leverage WordPress for CMS work.

We use this tooling to empower our progressive organization partners to help them run effective campaigns and help bring clarity to pressing analytics and targeting problems in the progressive space.

About us

Community Tech Alliance is a group of progressive technologists and strategists formed to provide data infrastructure building blocks to the progressive ecosystem at a low cost. CTA seeks to uplevel program impact by unlocking the potential of data, using software and data engineering, and removing the barriers to entry. We are a small team of engineers, data practitioners, product managers, and strategists looking to create infrastructure for progressive change.

Community Tech Alliance believes strongly that:

• Inclusive teams are strongest, and supportive work environments take investment, intentionality, and openness
• Empathy is the cornerstone of building smart technology solutions
• All team members should take ownership of the project and team’s development
• Iteration is key, and smart solutions require action not perfection
• Nothing great has been built without making mistakes and learning from them

As a frontend software engineer, you should:

• Have experience working with Product to implement features in modern web frameworks

• Have worked with ReactJS (or similar)

• Have experience working with WordPress

• Have experience working with cloud-based infrastructure projects with multiple engineers or contributors

• Bring a security and reliability, and accessibility-first mindset to how we build and support products

We use things like:

• On the backend, Python, SQL, and Java run in containerized environments on Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine
• ReactJS, Webpack, and other modern client-side tooling
• To manage our infrastructure: HashiCorp Terraform and open-source build and testing tooling
• Google Cloud Platform (too many individual services and APIs to name!)
• Airplane and other cloud-hosted tools that allow us to run an efficient remote team and solve problems quickly and without a lot of overhead

We don’t expect every applicant to know or have worked with every technology we’ve listed, so we urge you to apply if you’re interested and some of the above apply to you! We’re looking for engineers of all levels and hiring for the people over the position above all else.

Physical Demands

The physical demands here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Ability to sit at a computer monitor for extended periods of time

Salary and Benefits

For a full-time role, salary commensurate with experience in the range of $130k-155k annually. 

Contract rates start at $150/hour for part-time or $16,000/month for full-time.

We are a remote-first organization, so we provide equipment for your home workspace. We offer a competitive compensation salary and benefits package, including:

• Generous healthcare, vision & dental insurance for employees
• Matching 401K contributions
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Generous holiday schedule
• Paid family leave