Fullstack Software Engineer

Consistently named one of the top D.C. start-ups to watch since 2016, Quorum builds software that helps public affairs professionals work smarter and move faster. Our philosophy is people-first, whether we're supporting team members in their careers or prioritizing our clients with a best-in-class customer success program. Quorum's clients use our tools to bring a modern approach to advocacy work in Congress, all 50 state legislatures, major U.S. cities, the European Union, and more than a dozen countries.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer II, you will be part of the US legislative product development team and report to an Engineering Manager and work the full-stack using tools like React/Redux, Django, PostgreSQL, React Native, and much more. This team supports Quorum's mission of building exceptional software for public affairs professionals by being responsible for the US Federal, State, and Local products and maintaining some key features related to legislative tracking and reporting. 

What You'll Do

• First Week: You'll ship new code to production.
• First Month: You'll write code at several levels of the stack, from infrastructure to the API to the UI.
• First Six Months: You'll take ownership of an entire set of features and make decisions that impact many clients.
• First Year: You'll help guide our team as we make broad technical decisions impacting our stack, our products, and the growth of the entire company.

About You

• You have 5+ years of work experience at a company that produces software for end users as it primary function.
• You have professional experience in JavaScript and FE technologies like React (must).
• You have professional experience writing application code in backend languages like Python, Java, Go or Node.js.
• You have professional experience with any relational database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle.
• You have familiarity with SQL queries and performant use of Object Relational Mapping frameworks like Django.
• You not only the care about the quality of code you write but also has a strong desire to build skills of those around through code review and mentorship
• You care deeply about the code you write and either have significant technical skills solving real-world problems or the drive to quickly develop them.
• You have an interest in learning new development languages and platforms used by the wider team.
• You're a highly-motivated self-starter who wants to make valuable contributions to a team from day 1.
• You're an engaged learner—you want to expand your skills, get your hands dirty, and find solutions to challenging problems that require tradeoffs.
• You want to work in a fun environment where you can form real friendships with other professionals and where you have a strong sense of belonging at a growing startup.
• You're excited to pitch in where ever needed, from helping in recruiting to supporting customers.
• You are looking to join a dynamic team immediately.

About the Software Development Team

• We’re a fast-growing team that is dedicated to improving our people, processes, and platform. The 100+ person team is composed of different functions including software engineering, Product Management, Product Design, QA, Devops/SRE and an Information Security team.
• We support many different products but internally think of them as one system with a single unified codebase. Our goal is to build centralized systems that handle complex problems for multiple features and products.
• We’re focused on doing the important things the right way -- we write solid documentation, test our code well, design for scale, and follow defined software development processes.
• We follow best-in-class security practices to safeguard our data and application against bad actors. We regularly test and update processes and technology to fight complacency, because we know good security is a continuous effort.
• We curate high-quality datasets that are essential for effective mapping and tracking of the government and public affairs spaces. Our datasets underpin our promise to give users the information necessary to make smart decisions that influence policy.
• We set rigorous quality standards and monitor them with a mix of programmatic and manual verifications to ensure users maintain a high degree of trust in our systems.
• We’re very close as a team and invest not only in each others’ skills and careers but also in building real relationships with one another: product development is a team sport and we believe that it’s better (and more fun) to work on a team of people that you know well and care about.

Our Work Environment

We are a remote-first team with flexible work options: work remotely, or you may choose to come into our office in Belo Horizonte.

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