Software Engineer - SF - Change.org - United States

Change.org is the world’s largest technology platform for social change. Our goal is to empower people everywhere to start campaigns around the issues they care about, mobilize others, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.

We’re also an innovative business – a “social enterprise” and a certified B Corporation, with a business model designed to support positive social impact (more about B Corps: www.bcorporation.net).

Over 30 million users have signed winning petitions, including strengthening hate crime 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. Here’s a small snapshot of what was changed last year: www.change.org/2014

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

The position is located in San Francisco.

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.