Staff Software Engineer

Community Tech Alliance; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Tech Alliance seeks a Staff Software Engineer to drive data initiatives through application development and data engineering. This remote role focuses on building data pipelines, ensuring high-quality delivery, and collaborating in a mission-driven environment. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and a security-focused mindset while fostering inclusive team dynamics.

Benefits

Generous healthcare, vision & dental insurance

Matching 401K contributions

Generous paid time off (PTO)

Generous holiday schedule

Paid family leave

Qualifications

• Experience with data warehouse or analytics-focused database.
• Ability to work autonomously while thriving in a team environment.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Build applications and data pipelines to manage customer data.
• Collaborate with product and data engineering teams.
• Contribute to a high-quality product development in a remote-first team.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Security mindset

Problem-solving

Data handling

Test-driven coding

Tools

Apache Airflow

Google BigQuery

Django

Python

React

SQL

Docker

HashiCorp Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Job description

CTA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to support multiple initiatives to productize our data offerings. As an engineer in this ground-floor initiative, you will play a central role in building applications and data pipelines that empower customers to manage and make sense of their data. This opportunity offers the chance to shape a high-impact project from the ground up, leveraging modern web technologies and data engineering practices, all while working with a passionate, cross-functional team.

You’ll work within the supportive framework of an established, mission-driven organization with a history of delivering transformative solutions, focused on crafting a high quality product. The ideal candidate will have a keen data sense, high standards for quality, and a strong sense of prioritization for high quality delivery. This role will have a strong data engineering focus, with lots of collaborative work with our product and data engineering teams. We are building products to empower our customers to run effective programs and help bring clarity to pressing analytics problems.

As a leader on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a fresh and wide-ranging codebase, bring a security-first mindset to development, and directly contribute to the culture and success of the organization. Our suite of software tools will require engineers to build out significant portions of our data warehouse and pipelines using industry standard tools and languages as well as handle deployment and operation in the cloud.

About us

Community Tech Alliance is a group of progressive technologists and strategists formed to provide data infrastructure building blocks to the progressive ecosystem at a low cost. CTA seeks to uplevel program impact by unlocking the potential of data, using software and data engineering, and removing the barriers to entry. We are a small team of engineers, data practitioners, product managers, and strategists looking to create infrastructure for progressive change.

Community Tech Alliance believes strongly that:

• Inclusive teams are strongest, and supportive work environments take investment, intentionality, and openness

• Empathy is the cornerstone of building smart technology solutions

• All team members should take ownership of the project and team’s development

• Iteration is key, and smart solutions require action not perfection

• Nothing great has been built without making mistakes and learning from them

Job requirements

As a Staff Software Engineer, you should:

• Have experience collaborating closely with product teams and building with user experience at the forefront

• Have strong written and verbal communication skills

• Bring a security-first mindset to how we build and support products

• Act autonomously, thrive in a strong team environment, be excited to work in a fully remote role

• Be able to work with, clarify and find creative solutions for ambiguous requirements

• Have experience implementing performant test-driven code in ETL platforms

• Have experience with infrastructure and deployments in cloud environments

• Have experience working in a data warehouse or analytics-focused database

We use things like:

• Apache Airflow, Google BigQuery, DBT, Airbyte, and open-source data tooling

• Django, Python, React, SQL, and Docker

• HashiCorp Terraform and open-source build and testing tooling

• Google Cloud Platform (too many individual services and APIs to name!)

• Windmill and other cloud-hosted tools that allow us to run an efficient remote team and solve problems quickly and without a lot of overhead

We don’t expect every applicant to know or have worked with every technology we’ve listed, so we urge you to apply if you’re interested, and some of the above apply to you! We’re looking for engineers of all levels and hiring people over the position above all else.

Physical Demands

The physical demands here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Ability to sit at a computer monitor for extended periods of time

Salary and Benefits

Salary commensurate with experience in the range of $155,000-$180,000 annually.

We are a remote-first organization, so we provide equipment for your home workspace. We offer a competitive compensation salary and benefits package, including:

• Generous healthcare, vision & dental insurance for employees

• Matching 401K contributions

• Generous paid time off (PTO)

• Generous holiday schedule

• Paid family leave

Community Tech Alliance provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.