[Hiring] Director of Engineering @ActBlue
Mar 21, 2025 - ActBlue is hiring a remote Director of Engineering. đź’¸ Salary: $213,918 - $271,104. đź“ŤLocation: USA.
Role Description
ActBlue is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our Platform Engineering department and further our ability to deliver products quickly while ensuring the stability and security of our platform.
- Own the Platform Engineering vision and technical strategy with a focus on delivering increased developer productivity and simplifying and modernizing our architecture, while minimizing operating costs and risk.
- Lead sustained platform transformation by consistently implementing small, iterative improvements that drive long-term innovation and growth.
- Regularly update executive leadership and key stakeholders on the progress and outcomes of platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with overarching business goals.
- Guide the Platform Engineering teams’ development of technical roadmaps and support their execution of high-impact projects.
- Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver tools and infrastructure that enable shipping faster, more maintainable, and higher quality features.
- Be a culture carrier for continuous learning, iterative improvement, and post-incident review.
- Invest in the growth of your direct and indirect reports by coaching them through new challenges and empowering them to own their solutions.
- Contribute to recruiting and management practices that enable us to hire and retain diverse talent and ensure all employees feel a strong sense of belonging.
Qualifications
- 8+ years or equivalent in leading and managing cloud platforms, developer experience, and SRE teams.
- 5+ years of experience operating in and enabling CI/CD environments.
- An empathetic and facilitative leadership style with a demonstrated ability to empower teams to do their best work.
- Proven track record of successfully building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure, preferably in AWS.
- Experience in guiding large-scale code and architecture migrations.
- An embrace of architectural principles that values pragmatism over ideology.
- A belief that complex, scalable systems should be built with a small number of well-known tools and that root causes do not exist.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, oriented towards engendering trust, being of service, and building shared power.
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering diversity and a strong sense of belonging.
- Extensive experience in promoting and nurturing continuous learning practices.
Requirements
- Strong background in electoral politics and/or the political technology space.
- Strong background in payments, b2b, and/or two-sided marketplaces.
Benefits
- Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy.
- Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out-of-pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability.
- Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option.
- Dependent and health care flexible spending account options.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees.
- Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions.
- A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included).
- Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees.
- Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times.
Inclusion Statement
ActBlue is deeply committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity. We commit to retaining, developing, recruiting, and hiring a diverse staff community. We honor the dignity of all and celebrate each person’s unique qualities. We recognize the wide range of human differences, backgrounds, and intersectional identities that enrich the workspace and help us better meet our mission. If you feel a connection to our mission and see your interests reflected in this job description, we encourage you to apply – even if you don’t meet every requirement.
ActBlue is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the interview and employment process, including for our online job application system. If you would like to request an accommodation when applying, please contact us at recruitment@actblue.com.
*ActBlue will never ask candidates to buy equipment, nor will we email from anything other than an actblue.com or actbluetech.com email address.
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Salary
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$213,918 - $271,104
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 21, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
