Frontend Software Engineer - Contractor

CTA is looking for a front end software engineer to join our proven team. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment focused on crafting a high quality product. The perfect 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 focus, with lots of collaborative work with our product, partnership and data engineering team.

Our infrastructure leverages powerful open-source and cloud-based tools, including Google BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Airbyte (ELT/ETL), and dbt. We use ReactJS, Webpack, MaterialUI, Firebase and other modern javascript-based tooling to develop our web applications.

We use this tooling to empower our progressive organization partners to help them run effective programs 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

Responsibilities for this role include:

• Delivering complete features.
• Solving non-trivial problems with simple and innovative solutions.
• Crafting a front end that accounts for user delight and data safety.
• Contributing to architectural decisions.

Other points relevant to this role:

• We are a non-profit focused on furthering the progressive cause.
• We are a fully remote organization, but have synchronous working hours
• This role is part-time, 3 days or 24 hours per week

About you

• You are very comfortable using Git.
• You have experience with (at least one, but preferably multiple) popular development frameworks like React, Angular, Vue etc. Experience with unit testing frameworks is a plus but not required.
• You bring a security and reliability, and accessibility-first mindset to how we build and support products.
• You love to build complete features, all the way from designing a database schema, to building API representations, to crafting a delightful interface. After shipping, you want to measure adoption and ship iterations.
• Working cross functionally comes naturally to you. Contributing API contracts, co-designing logical flows, and orchestrating work across teams and services is your jam.
• You are comfortable working with a team that is entirely remote. You must be available for synchronous work during most of the normal US workday in the timezone you are in.
• You are receptive to feedback and open to introspection when something goes wrong. Everyone at this company has produced some kind of problem that needed fixing. We use those moments to grow, be humble, admit we’re wrong and work together to find a solution. And when things go right, we are happy to call those achievements out and celebrate them.

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

Contract rates between $130/hour and $150/hour for part-time, commensurate with experience.

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.