HQ- Portland, OR or Remote (US working hours)
Jul 15, 2022
Location: HQ- Portland, OR or Remote (US working hours)
Position Status: Full-time, Regular
Salary: US: Starting salary for this role will be $91,000 to commensurate on experience, based on local benchmark for candidates outside of the United States.
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.
The MicroMentor Team
MicroMentor is an initiative of Mercy Corps and functions much like a technology start-up. Through a proprietary online mentoring platform, MicroMentor provides a technology solution that connects small business owners and entrepreneurs with skilled volunteer business mentors on a global scale.
The Position
The Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) will assist with all aspects of maintaining and further developing MicroMentor's online mentoring platform. This includes the creation of innovative web applications across a range of technologies; including but not limited to: Python/Django (or equivalent), PostgreSQL, Wagtail CMS, and Zurb Foundation CSS framework. Experience with React is a plus. Additionally, they will work across the entire tech stack which will require reading/ interpreting design documentation and soliciting clarifications for documentation as well as writing proofs-of-concept or prototypes to explore undocumented software edges.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
- Write clean, readable code for new and existing features
- Supplement feature development with unit and integration tests
- Anticipate edge cases and side effects of changes to the system
- Participate in code reviews
- Write technical documentation
- Read design documentation and solicit clarifications
- Create proofs-of-concept or prototypes, especially for situations where documentation is ambiguous or incomplete
- Report and diagnose defects and issues that may arise
- Help triage issues for product maintenance
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
- Help designers and other team members identify minimally viable feature sets
- Participate in estimation and scoping exercises
- Participate in brainstorms or other design meetings
- Help designers discover edge cases where development is problematic
- Help optimize product and project management processes
REQUIRED MEETINGS
- Weekly sprint planning
- Weekly product status check-ins
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Director of Technology, MicroMentor
Works Directly With: MicroMentor Product Development Team
Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills
- BA/BS degree and 5+ years of relevant industry experience (degree in computer science or related field preferred but not required)
- 5+ years of experience working with web applications, both front – and back-end
- 3+ years of experience using Django
- Experience working in a Distributed/Cloud-based environment to build highly scalable applications (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)
- Experience with RESTful API development
- Experience with the development of large-scale software projects
- Good understanding of MVC / MVVM concepts
- Experience with CMSes. Experience with Wagtail CMS preferred
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL database technologies
- Experience writing unit tests and integration tests.
- Some competency with sysops tasks (CI, containerization, serverless hosting, autoscaling…) is a big plus
- Experience integrating with outside systems such as CRM, email providers & third-party APIs
Success Factors
A successful candidate will be able to communicate clearly using a variety of approaches and be fluent in English. They can read and interpret web software design documentation and solicit clarifications for documentation. They can make and demonstrate prototypes for features with ambiguous or incomplete documentation. They can read and write technical documentation and articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences. They learn quickly and adapt. Finally, they can relate to people with different backgrounds and have awareness and sensitivity to multicultural international development work.
Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions
The position is remote, and candidate need to work during Pacific Time zone. If the candidate is based in Portland, they can work onsite at the Mercy Corps Portland Office (not mandatory). Travel may be required for annual planning meetings in Portland HQ.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges.
How to Apply
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