Movement Labs

Responsibilities: — Design and implement scalable data architecture for targeting and engagement. — Serve as technical partner to program teams. — Extend foundational datasets to facilitate new outreach strategies. — Load-test systems to prepare for elections. — Maintain key datasets for polling images and precinct cross-matching. — Develop standardized experimental frameworks for testing campaign effectiveness. — Build AI tooling to improve team efficiency, including QC agents for data deliveries and context systems for self-documenting repositories. — Mix of greenfield builds, pragmatic plumbing, incident response, and operational work, with workload shifting according to the political calendar. — Shape pipelines and integrations feeding the RCT platform and foundational voter datasets, including APIs, replication, federation layers, experiment randomization, and managing failure modes. — Extend and optimize data platform and orchestration layer for cost, runtime, and reliability during elections with millions of outreach attempts. — Lead multi-system and multi-team projects from scoping to milestones. — Ensure quality by testing, validating own work, reviewing teammates' code, and mentoring. — Document and communicate systems clearly to teammates, stakeholders, and non-engineers. — Participate in on-call rotations and rapid response, including evenings and weekends during election cycles. — Commitment to progressive politics and leveraging data, technology, organizing, and research to build political power. Requirements: — 3-6+ years of experience (Senior or Mid-level) in designing, building, and operating production data pipelines and integrations. — Strong proficiency in SQL and Python. — Experience building production software across a modern data stack including cloud data warehouses (BigQuery or similar), transformation frameworks like dbt, and orchestrators like Dagster or Airflow. — Proven track record of leading technical work across multiple systems or teams and managing ambiguous problems end-to-end. — Good judgment on when to refactor, ship pragmatically, and improve systems. — Strong written communication skills for documentation and explaining complex systems to non-engineers. — Genuine commitment to the mission of stopping fascism and building progressive power, comfortable operating on a political calendar. Nice to Have: — Experience in progressive, political, advocacy, or nonprofit sectors, including awareness of c3/c4/PAC boundaries and sensitivities of political and voter data. — Familiarity with election results, voter file data, and campaign tools for organizing, texting, and contacting voters. — Experience with Google Cloud Platform. — Experience in on-call rotations and mentoring less-experienced engineers. Benefits: — Base salary of $90,000-$150,000 per year. — Excellent health, dental, and vision benefits. — 401(k) matching. — Unlimited Paid Time Off. — Remote-first culture with teammates across the United States. — Initial term of six months with possibility to retain top performers. — Application process includes phone screen, exercise, and full interview. — Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States; no sponsorship available. — Equal opportunity employer committed to economic and social justice. — Encouragement for women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and other historically disenfranchised populations to apply. — Accommodations available during hiring process upon request via careers@movementlabs.com.