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Those experiments turned out well, and in 2024, we ran the largest relational organizing campaign in history, mobilizing 47,000 trusted messengers to have 9 million conversations with 3 million hard to reach voters. Obviously, things didn\u0026#39;t go how we wanted in the 2024 elections, but we have a bunch of ideas for how to leverage our relational network and expertise to have an even bigger impact in the 2026 midterms!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#39;re a software engineer looking to make a difference, this is an extremely high-leverage opportunity!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow does Empower increase civic engagement and voting?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe train volunteers to reach out to friends and family and share personal stories about the issues that matter most to them.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen people ask their close friends and family to get involved or vote, those friends and family members become much more likely to actually do it. Empower is a product and course of training that helps community groups scale up this kind of direct personal outreach. (For a concrete example, see the FAQ.)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run, randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout — far more effective than phone-banking, text-banking, or door-to-door canvassing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle, and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. 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A few things on the roadmap are:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefreshing the UI\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChanging our data loading strategy to improve performance and reduce complexity\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntegrating with Catalist, a voter database, to help people prioritize the most impactful conversations\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContinuing to improve our scalability\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho would be a good fit?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis opportunity is perfect for someone who has honed their engineering and product skills in other roles and now wants to put them to use to protect democracy.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#39;re looking for a product-focused engineer who is a generalist and who:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCares deeply about the mission\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan write solid code, and also can come up with expedient hacks where warranted\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHas frontend experience, including with JavaScript and React\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHas US work authorization\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs productive in a remote environment\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunicates well, is open-minded, and is open to improvement and learning\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakes initiative\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakes ownership over end results: launching stuff that gets used!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf your background or experience are a little different but you think you\u0026#39;d be great in this role, please apply!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat\u0026#39;s the compensation like?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur payment philosophy is: we want to attract great software engineers, so we pay more generously than most nonprofits (though of course less than big tech companies). And we\u0026#39;re using a fixed scale because salary negotiations are a common source of inequitable pay in software engineering.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur starting pay scale for new engineers is based on years of software engineering experience:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 years: 135k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 years: 140k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 years: 145k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 years: 150k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 years: 155k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8+ years: 160k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolks with nontraditional backgrounds are great too! SWE-adjacent work (and masters degrees) will still count as experience, but at a lower rate.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter starting, there may also be merit-based raises as well as cost of living adjustments.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd, while we\u0026#39;re typically pretty good at keeping people moving up as they get more experience, we\u0026#39;re also a nonprofit, and fundraising is harder in some years than others, so this isn\u0026#39;t a guarantee of an annual raise.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also provide full health care, and each year, there are 10 vacation days, 10 paid holidays, 7 paid personal days, in addition to sick leave.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat\u0026#39;s great about working here?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpower combines product and engineering talent from startups and big tech companies with the prowess of highly experienced organizing trainers. Both sides of the organization are important and learn a lot from each other.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA strong technical stack and minimizing red tape means we can iterate quickly\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeople are nice! You might get cheese from Wisconsin as a holiday present.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt\u0026#39;s very bubble-bursting — you get to interact with a much larger cross-section of society than in most roles in tech\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou get to have a huge impact on civic engagement and the future of democracy in our country\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e",
      "summary": "\u003ch2\u003eWant to use your engineering skills for good? Empower is hiring software engineers!\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmpower is a nonprofit that works to dramatically increase civic engagement by helping groups organize their communities with friend-to-friend outreach. That\u0026#39;s called \u0026#34;relational organizing.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, we were the largest relational organizing tech and training coalition for progressive organizations and nonprofits, training 77,000 people from over 1,000 organizations (especially organizations that work in youth, Black, and Latinx communities), growing to 5 times larger than even the Biden campaign’s relational program.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2022, we built on that work to do vaccine outreach as well as some experiments on new styles of relational organizing. Those experiments turned out well, and in 2024, we ran the largest relational organizing campaign in history, mobilizing 47,000 trusted messengers to have 9 million conversations with 3 million hard to reach voters. Obviously, things didn\u0026#39;t go how we wanted in the 2024 elections, but we have a bunch of ideas for how to leverage our relational network and expertise to have an even bigger impact in the 2026 midterms!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#39;re a software engineer looking to make a difference, this is an extremely high-leverage opportunity!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow does Empower increase civic engagement and voting?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe train volunteers to reach out to friends and family and share personal stories about the issues that matter most to them.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen people ask their close friends and family to get involved or vote, those friends and family members become much more likely to actually do it. Empower is a product and course of training that helps community groups scale up this kind of direct personal outreach. (For a concrete example, see the FAQ.)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s effective. Empower has been studied in nine different independently-run, randomly controlled trials which all found that its usage led to large and statistically significant increases in voter turnout — far more effective than phone-banking, text-banking, or door-to-door canvassing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s growing fast. The number of conversations Empower facilitated grew by over 10x between the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, grew by 10x again in the 2020 election cycle, and then grew by 30x for the 2024 election cycle. In order to keep up that pace going forward, we need to grow our team and keep adding features that help our organizations!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat\u0026#39;s the organization like?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are two main teams: product/engineering, and organizing/training. We\u0026#39;re spread out all across the country, with some clustering in the Bay Area and in Madison, WI (you could be anywhere). The product/engineering team has one short stand-up three times a week.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmpower is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on age, ancestry, race, ethnicity, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, family or medical care leave, religion, genetic information, medical condition, physical or mental disability, or veteran status.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiversity, equity, and inclusion are important to our organization! Women, BIPOC people, and individuals from the LGBTQ+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat\u0026#39;s the stack?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTypeScript (it\u0026#39;s fine if you only happen to know JavaScript)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReact (good to have experience with this)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReact Native (it’s fine not to know this)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNode (it’s fine not to know this)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAWS (it’s fine not to know this)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRDS MySQL (we\u0026#39;re planning on moving to a horizontally-scalable DB. If you have expertise in those kinds of transitions, that would be great, but it\u0026#39;s fine not to be a DB expert!)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing TypeScript (we still have some leftover JS) everywhere has allowed us to share important code across mobile, web, and server.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat sorts of things do we work on?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur roadmap is driven by the needs of our users. We talk to organizations that use us, uncover patterns in their needs, and then design our product to be maximally useful. We also take work that keeps our product velocity as high as possible. Here are some past examples:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCross-organization support: many of the folks using Empower are in multiple organizations, so we added dashboards to improve visibility across organizations and the ability to copy data between organizations\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvanced filtering: we try to make all of our data available to the directors of an organization, so we added some power-user tools for slicing and dicing the data in their dashboards\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScalability: we knew that our scale would be much higher in 2024, so we built infrastructure to generate synthetic data, send synthetic requests to our endpoints, analyze past programs to see what the shape of our data looked like, and then we improved performance, letting us avoid any unplanned downtime during the election\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have a good foundation to build on and a lot of great feedback from groups that used Empower in 2024, so there\u0026#39;s a ton more features to work on! A few things on the roadmap are:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefreshing the UI\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChanging our data loading strategy to improve performance and reduce complexity\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntegrating with Catalist, a voter database, to help people prioritize the most impactful conversations\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContinuing to improve our scalability\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho would be a good fit?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis opportunity is perfect for someone who has honed their engineering and product skills in other roles and now wants to put them to use to protect democracy.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#39;re looking for a product-focused engineer who is a generalist and who:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCares deeply about the mission\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan write solid code, and also can come up with expedient hacks where warranted\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHas frontend experience, including with JavaScript and React\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHas US work authorization\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs productive in a remote environment\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunicates well, is open-minded, and is open to improvement and learning\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakes initiative\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakes ownership over end results: launching stuff that gets used!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf your background or experience are a little different but you think you\u0026#39;d be great in this role, please apply!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat\u0026#39;s the compensation like?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur payment philosophy is: we want to attract great software engineers, so we pay more generously than most nonprofits (though of course less than big tech companies). And we\u0026#39;re using a fixed scale because salary negotiations are a common source of inequitable pay in software engineering.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur starting pay scale for new engineers is based on years of software engineering experience:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 years: 135k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 years: 140k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 years: 145k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 years: 150k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 years: 155k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8+ years: 160k\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolks with nontraditional backgrounds are great too! SWE-adjacent work (and masters degrees) will still count as experience, but at a lower rate.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter starting, there may also be merit-based raises as well as cost of living adjustments.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd, while we\u0026#39;re typically pretty good at keeping people moving up as they get more experience, we\u0026#39;re also a nonprofit, and fundraising is harder in some years than others, so this isn\u0026#39;t a guarantee of an annual raise.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also provide full health care, and each year, there are 10 vacation days, 10 paid holidays, 7 paid personal days, in addition to sick leave.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat\u0026#39;s great about working here?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpower combines product and engineering talent from startups and big tech companies with the prowess of highly experienced organizing trainers. Both sides of the organization are important and learn a lot from each other.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA strong technical stack and minimizing red tape means we can iterate quickly\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeople are nice! You might get cheese from Wisconsin as a holiday present.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt\u0026#39;s very bubble-bursting — you get to interact with a much larger cross-section of society than in most roles in tech\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou get to have a huge impact on civic engagement and the future of democracy in our country\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e",
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