Full Stack Engineer

CTA is seeking a Fullstack software developer to support multiple initiatives to productize our data offerings. As an engineer in this ground-floor initiative, you will play a central role in building internal and external applications that empower customers to manage and make sense of their data. This opportunity offers the chance to shape a high-impact project from the ground up, leveraging modern web technologies and engineering practices, all while working with a passionate, cross-functional team. 

You’ll work within the supportive framework of an established, mission-driven organization with a history of delivering transformative solutions, focused on crafting a high quality product. The ideal candidate will have a keen product sense, high standards for quality, and a strong sense of prioritization for incremental delivery. This role will have a strong product and UI/UX focus, with lots of collaborative work with our product and data engineering teams. We are building products to empower our customers to run effective programs and help bring clarity to pressing analytics problems.

About us

Community Tech Alliance is a group of progressive technologists and strategists formed to provide data infrastructure products 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 Full Stack engineer, you should:

• Have proficiency with git and Github for version control in collaborative projects

• Experience with ReactJS (or a similar framework) and Django (or a similar backend framework).

• Have been around or used Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform

• Be able to develop and maintain scalable web applications, ensuring reliability, accessibility, and security

• Participate in code reviews, contribute to technical discussions, and mentor junior engineers

• Have strong collaboration skills, including working with product managers to define and implement features.

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

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 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

Salary commensurate with experience in the range of $130,000-$155,000 annually.

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

Community Tech Alliance provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.