Job description
Description
CTA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to support multiple initiatives to productize our data offerings. As an engineer in this ground-floor initiative, you will play a central role in building applications and data pipelines that empower customers to manage and make sense of their data. This opportunity offers the chance to shape a high-impact project from the ground up, leveraging modern web technologies and data engineering practices, all while working with a passionate, cross-functional team.
You’ll work within the supportive framework of an established, mission-driven organization with a history of delivering transformative solutions, focused on crafting a high quality product. The ideal candidate will have a keen data sense, high standards for quality, and a strong sense of prioritization for high quality delivery. This role will have a strong data engineering focus, with lots of collaborative work with our product and data engineering teams. We are building products to empower our customers to run effective programs and help bring clarity to pressing analytics problems.
As a leader on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a fresh and wide-ranging codebase, bring a security-first mindset to development, and directly contribute to the culture and success of the organization. Our suite of software tools will require engineers to build out significant portions of our data warehouse and pipelines using industry standard tools and languages as well as handle deployment and operation in the cloud.
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
Requirements
As a Staff Software Engineer, you should:
Have experience collaborating closely with product teams and building with user experience at the forefront
Have strong written and verbal communication skills
Bring a security-first mindset to how we build and support products
Act autonomously, thrive in a strong team environment, be excited to work in a fully remote role
Be able to work with, clarify and find creative solutions for ambiguous requirements
Have experience implementing performant test-driven code in ETL platforms
Have experience with infrastructure and deployments in cloud environments
Have experience working in a data warehouse or analytics-focused database
We use things like:
Apache Airflow, Google BigQuery, DBT, Airbyte, and open-source data tooling
Django, Python, React, SQL, and Docker
HashiCorp Terraform and open-source build and testing tooling
Google Cloud Platform (too many individual services and APIs to name!)
Windmill and other cloud-hosted tools that allow us to run an efficient remote team and solve problems quickly and without a lot of overhead
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 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
Salary commensurate with experience in the range of $155,000-$180,000 annually.
We are a remote-first organization, so we provide equipment for your home workspace. We offer a competitive compensation salary and benefits package, including:
Generous healthcare, vision & dental insurance for employees
Matching 401K contributions
Generous paid time off (PTO)
Generous holiday schedule
Paid family leave
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.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
