Job description
Organizational Overview
Do you want to help ensure that every organizer, advocate, and changemaker in the progressive movement has what they need to create bold, people-powered change? Join us in making that vision a reality.
Launched in 2018, The Movement Cooperative (TMC) is a nonprofit member cooperative uniting more than 90 national and state-based organizations and over 1,400 affiliates through shared infrastructure and collaborative support. We bridge the gap between vision and capacity—democratizing access to tools, data, and strategic expertise that help our members organize more efficiently, campaign more effectively, and drive lasting impact across the movement.
As a cooperative, TMC is governed by and for its members, with a board(s) made up primarily of staff from member organizations. Together, we’re reimagining what’s possible when movement groups have the infrastructure they need to thrive.
Position Overview
The Senior Data Engineer will be a leading individual contributor on the team, regularly executing complex tasks across the whole range of stories. They will regularly represent Engineering in collaborative efforts and help to mentor more junior engineers.
Responsibilities
Be a leading contributor to Engineering sprints and infrastructure
- Regularly implement complex stories independently
- Act as major contributor to the overall stability and maintenance of TMC’s infrastructure and data pipelines
- Transform datasets to improve usability for member data analysts
- Build and maintain data products that combine data held by different TMC member organizations for shared, communally beneficial purposes
- Contribute to and design team documentation
Assist in the design and development of new technologies, patterns, and partnerships
- Evaluate new open source packages, approaches, and/or partnerships to determine if TMC should take advantage
- Draft and support in the execution of transition plans related to new data engineering approaches
- Support the CTO/Director of Engineering/Director of Data & Technology Strategy in training and educating members on new data engineering approaches
Collaborate and contribute to open source communities, particularly the Parsons open source community
Be a meaningful contributor to keeping the lights on and interfacing with members
- Communicate in a timely manner with TMC members about bugs, outages, and updates
- Investigate and resolve breakages of TMC-built ETL workflows
Mentor and support more junior members of the engineering team as well as other staff and members working to deepen their technical expertise
- Provide meaningful feedback through design sessions, pairing, and PR reviews
- Assist members in understanding our systems and building skills through talks, meetings, and other means.
Qualifications
Skills
3+ years of relevant data engineering experience
- Deep familiarity with Python and SQL
- Comfort with GCP or other cloud platforms
- Advanced understanding of fundamental engineering concepts such as interfaces, fault tolerance, and separation of concerns.
1+ years of demonstrated leadership with technical teams and/or projects
- Demonstrated ability to review code, pair, and support more junior engineers to deep their knowledge and skill
Care for the organization’s mission, and future
- Dedication to furthering the reach and impact of TMC members’ work
- Superior verbal and written communication, excellent presentation skills, and the ability to articulate complex concepts across varied functional audiences
We especially encourage applications from people who have any of these additional qualifications, which are preferred but not required:
- Experience working on campaigns, electorally-focused, or advocacy organizations
- Comfort with a fully remote work environment
- Experience with common open source software packages used for ETL/ELT including dbt, Airbyte, Parsons, etc.
- Experience contributing to or robust participation in an open source community
- Experience building technical documentation
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods of working on a computer
Location Requirements
- While TMC’s workplace is remote, we require staff members to reside in and work in the continental United States.
Benefits
The Movement Cooperative is dedicated to providing all employees a competitive salary, world-class healthcare, dental and vision benefits, retirement, unlimited paid vacation and sick days, flexible holidays, and all-staff holidays, remote virtual office stipends, paid parental and adoption family leaves, and health and wellness benefits. The starting salary range for this position is $105,678 - 110,807. TMC adheres to a 5 year compensation plan allowing for time-in-role based raises. This is a full-time exempt position.
This position is within a union-represented collective bargaining unit, and specific terms and conditions of employment may be subject to a future collective bargaining agreement between TMC and the Union.
Next Steps
Please submit your resume and cover letter in PDF format detailing why you are interested in this role and your qualifications.
Here’s what you can expect from our interview process:
- Application Review
- Skills Assessment
- Panel interview (~60 minutes)
- Final Interview, including pairing and meeting with Director of Engineering (~1.5 hours)
Applications must be submitted by 6:00 p.m. ET on August 27, 2025.
We are looking to fill this position by October 2025.
The Movement Cooperative is an equal opportunity employer.
The Movement Cooperative recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
At The Movement Cooperative, we have a clear vision: to be an organization where a diverse mix of talented people are inspired to do their best work, incentivized to stay with us year-over-year, and can progress in their careers in meaningful and impactful ways. We pride ourselves on bringing the best to our members, and we know our organization runs on the hard work, well-being, and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.
