Associate Software Developer

Remote

Part Time

Strategy

Entry Level

Job Overview:

Software Developers play a pivotal role in crafting tools that enhance digital civic engagement and support our mission to drive progressive change. This role will be responsible for developing and maintaining user-friendly applications that empower our audience, primarily using Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

NOTE: This is the stack we currently use, but we’re always open to technologists with different competencies who are eager to creatively use technology to challenge the status quo.

Responsibilities:

Ideate, design, and develop interactive, responsive, and accessible applications with the Strategy Department’s development team.
Maintain and update existing digital tools, incorporating feedback and addressing any issues promptly.
Maintain written documentation of new digital tools.
Actively participate in brainstorming sessions and feedback reviews to contribute to continuous improvement.
Experiment with new technologies and approaches to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of our digital tools.
Attending Gen-Z for Change’s weekly All Hands meeting and the Strategy Department’s weekly meetings.
Initiate meetings and communicate consistently and proactively with the Director of Strategy as needed to maintain projects.

Skills & Qualifications:

Portfolio of creative & technical projects
Experience developing back-end or full-stack applications
Experience in Python, including common libraries (e.g. numpy, requests, pandas, scrapy, selenium, etc.)
Experience with GitHub
Experience building & incorporating APIs into technical projects
Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform
Familiarity with cloud computing & containerization
Willingness to pick up new technologies to expand the scope of digital organizing
Understanding and familiarity with grassroots organizing and social issues
Understanding of ongoing fights in the youth, labor, reproductive, climate, immigration, and/or tech spaces preferred
Curiosity, creative problem-solving skills, and a can-do attitude

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