WHO WE ARE:

ActBlue builds and maintains a powerful online fundraising platform for Democratic campaigns, progressive organizations, and nonprofits working to create a better future. We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors by making it easier for grassroots supporters to make their voices heard and by helping thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations —  build people-powered movements.

We’re a nonprofit organization, and our team has a big impact on the future of our country. Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission. 

We are expanding our engineering leadership team. We’re looking for a DevOps Manager to support sound direction and ensure the integrity and smooth functioning of our infrastructure engineering and operations team. Our engineering and product organization is made up of 50+ people and growing. We’re organized into interdisciplinary teams of 3-7 people with clear areas of complementary focus. 

Engineering teams are charged with operating autonomously while maintaining alignment with the organization’s objectives. In this role, you will support this charge by working with your team's Architect, engineers, and project manager, who are tasked with building and maintaining our automated, scalable and self-healing platform. You will also foster transparency and engagement, and ensure successful cross-team communication and collaboration.

In addition to cultivating an inclusive environment that brings out the best in your team holistically, you will be directly managing and mentoring the individuals on your team. You will champion, coach, and challenge individual team members in concert with supporting the growth of the whole team.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Providing guidance for up to 7 SRE and DB engineers of diverse backgrounds and skills
• Supporting the professional development of your direct reports (supportive feedback, goal-setting, regular check-ins, etc)
• Working with the architect, engineers, and project manager to formulate roadmaps
• Driving essential and timely communication between teams
• Ensuring the teams have the context and resources they need to achieve their goals
• Help build comprehensive on-boarding program for team members to get new hires ready for on-call duties
• Curating professional development opportunities to align team members career goals with organizational initiatives.
• Collaborating with the rest of engineering leadership to continually cultivate a work environment where everyone on the team can thrive

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 3+ years of management experience with teams of 5+ ICs
• A track record of success in inclusive management
• A strong faculty for reliability engineering and database management and best practices. Experience with details of running a high volume SaaS or Ecommerce platform 
• Adept project-scoping, planning, and management
• Motivation to see your teams and individuals on those teams succeed
• A personal commitment to fostering psychologically safe environments for your teams

• A moderate allergy to manual processes as we like to automate everything where at all feasible

OUR ENGINEERING VALUES:

• We believe that ideas are more important than technologies.
• We understand that the tools we build have real-world consequences for millions of people and take that responsibility seriously.
• Security is at the center of everything we do. We are always on the lookout for ways to further harden our platform.
• We know that code isn’t just a set of instructions for machines, but communication with other humans; style, elegance, and respect are important.
• We believe that an ability to balance paying off technical debt and rapidly completing a project contributes to the health of the codebase, engineering team, and organization.
• We believe that being correct isn’t enough; respect for your colleagues and users is fundamental.

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LOCATION AND COMPENSATION

ActBlue’s headquarters are located in Davis Square in Somerville, MA, just a few blocks from Boston’s MBTA Red Line train. This posting is for a full-time, in office, salaried position based in Somerville, MA, though we are open to discussion about remote work for the right candidate. We are authorized to support remote work in California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington DC, Washington, Wisconsin. 

*In the short term: Due to COVID-19, we have shifted our entire staff to fully remote until January 2022. ActBlue is equipped to have you onboard and begin employment remotely from your home office if you are hired for this role. If working out of our ActBlue offices in Somerville long-term will entail relocation for you, we will work with you directly to make sure you’re able to relocate in a reasonable time frame once ActBlue resumes standard in-office work patterns.

We offer a competitive salary and a generous compensation package, which includes commuter benefits or home office stipend; fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance; an employer-sponsored 401k contribution plan; a generous professional development stipend; three months paid parental leave for all genders, adoptions included; and a flexible time off policy.  

Women, people of color, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply. ActBlue is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against candidates on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. ActBlue cannot at this time sponsor work visas.

*ActBlue will never ask candidates to buy equipment, nor will we email from anything other than an actblue.com or actbluetech.com email address.