Senior Back-End Developer
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Job Location:
Columbia, IN - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 140000 - 200000
Posted on:
27 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Grassroots Analytics mission is to provide innovative data solutions to amplify forward-thinking voices causes and people.
Grassroots Analytics (GA) maintains a detailed database on more than 20 million active American donors including data on net worth ideological preferences political donation history non-profit donation history demographics and contact information.
About The Role
Were building a next-generation data analytics platform on Google Cloud Platform to power in-app workflows and analytics for our users. Our stack includes Python microservices Airflow for pipeline orchestration and a React/ frontend. Youll join a small cross-functional team responsible for end-to-end service development deployment and operational excellence.
What Youll Do
- Design implement and maintain backend services and APIs in Python
- Build and optimize data pipelines using Apache Airflow
- Collaborate with product and frontend teams to define clear service contracts
- Develop infrastructure-as-code for GCP resources (Pub/Sub Cloud Functions BigQuery Cloud Storage)
- Ensure reliability: write tests set up monitoring/alerting troubleshoot production issues
- Participate in code reviews mentor junior engineers and help evolve our best practices
What Were Looking For
- 4 years of professional Python development experience
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow (authoring DAGs operators scheduling)
- Strong working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services (Compute Engine Cloud Functions BigQuery Pub/Sub IAM)
- Experience containerizing applications (Docker) and deploying with CI/CD (GitHub Actions Cloud Build etc.)
- Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases; bonus for NoSQL (Firestore/Datastore)
- Familiarity with RESTful API design
- Commitment to code quality: automated tests linting type checking
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and serverless architectures
- Background in event-driven or streaming data systems (Dataflow Kafka)
- Exposure to security best practices in cloud environments
- Experience performing statistical analysis and data modeling (e.g. using NumPy pandas SciPy)
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and workflows (e.g. scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch)
The salary range for this position is $140000 $200000 plus benefits with the possibility of signing and performance bonuses. This is a full-time in-office position based in our office in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington D.C.Candidates must be willing to work in-office.
We offer 33 days of PTO two days for every year with GA; 11 federal holidays; and full office closure between Christmas and New Years. Additional benefits include healthcare dental and vision insurance; paid parental leave; mental health and sick days; 401K with employer match; profit sharing; and more.
Grassroots Analytics is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a diverse inclusive and welcoming environment where everyone is empowered to do their best work. Grassroots Analytics does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion gender gender expression age national origin disability marital status sexual orientation or military status.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Bootstrap
- CSS
- Front-End Development
- HTML5
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- Angular
- Less
- JavaScript
- backbone.js
- Sass
About Company
Grassroots Analytics is a Washington, DC tech company breaking down barriers in fundraising for forward-thinking candidates, causes, and nonprofits. Since our founding in 2017, we have evolved into a premier data and technology firm, assembling a team of the top political, nonprofit, ... View more
