Software Engineer - Change.org - San Francisco, CA

Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform, empowering more than 75 million users to win incredible and inspiring victories on the issues they care about.

We’re an innovative business – a certified “B Corp” – combining the structure of a business with a powerful sense of mission that drives our work. Over 25 million users have signed winning petitions, including strengthening hate crimes legislation in South Africa; fighting corruption in Indonesia, Italy, and Brazil; ending the ban on gay Boy Scouts in the United States, and big wins for women’s rights in India. And we’re just getting started.

We love serving our incredible users, and we love our staff too. We show it with very competitive salaries, five weeks of vacation, robust maternity and parental leave, an amazing culture, free language training (if you want it), and a high impact, low-ego team that can’t wait to learn from you and teach you what they know.

Here’s what you’ll do as part of our team:
be part of a small, close-knit team

work in an agile environment (TDD, pairing, short release cycles)

develop in a Mac OS X environment

proactively refactor the codebase to improve its quality

contribute to our bottom line through rigorous analytics and A/B testing

use your skills to make the world better

And here are the skills & experience we hope you have:
experience working on high-performance, consumer-facing websites and / or a Github account that speaks for itself

rewritten code to help yourself sleep better at night

ability to navigate and grok an existing, large codebase

expertise in writing clean, performant, test-driven code in Ruby, JavaScript, LESS, and SQL

a solid understanding of scalability best practices in modern web application product development

proficiency with Git and Unix command line

Change.org is an exceptionally agile and collaborative work environment. Your co-workers are high-impact, low-ego, and have a deep respect for our users.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

We are working for a world where no one is powerless, and where creating change is a part of everyday life. We’re just getting started, and we hope you’ll join us.