Join the We Vote Movement

We Vote has an open Volunteer Software Engineering position for an individual who wants to develop new skills with CSS/HTML or ReactJS, or use existing application development skills to help strengthen American Democracy. This volunteer role currently requires 10-20 hours per week and will be available until about early November 2024. We Vote is a great opportunity to get involved with supporting American Democracy.

About Us

We Vote is a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote nonprofit startup, and a celebrated Fast Forward nonprofit technology grantee. We Vote is building a movement of excellent, passionate, part-time volunteers (starting with the founders) who build mobile technologies that will touch and mobilize millions of voters on Election Day. We believe that many voters are busy, distracted, and impatient. We have a goal of providing a positive voting experience that helps people decide how to vote. More information at www.wevote.us or on Twitter @WeVote.

What You'll Do

• Install our software on your development machine. We need full-stack engineers who can work in both React and Python, but if you prefer to focus on one or the other, we can work with you as well.
• Contribute to any/all of the following areas of development:
• https://github.com/wevote/WebApp - React-based Mobile Website, or
• https://github.com/wevote/WeVoteServer - Django/Python API Server (Mac/Unix only)
• Work with our current volunteer engineering team in Google Hangouts.
• Tackle specific issues as well as larger projects:
• https://github.com/wevote/WebApp/issues or
• https://github.com/wevote/WeVoteServer/issues
  

Who you are: Must haves

• You have 2+ years of non-educational development experience
• Have an active GitHub repository or can direct us to your portfolio
• You have been on an internal application development team OR commercial product development team. (International experience is OK)
• You want to work with an established and successful team. You have a passion for the latest technology and are committed to strengthening American Democracy.
• You have enough experience or aptitude that you can see 5-20 hour-long projects through to completion. We can support you and answer questions (with occasional pair programming), but the projects we have available could be called Intermediate to Advanced.
• You are striving for personal excellence.
• A willingness to work with other volunteers.
• Available for at least 10+ hours per week during our core team hours M-F 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. We understand not everyone is in the position to put in this many hours, but less time doesn’t work for our team. Apologies in advance. (We have other engineering volunteers working 8-40 hours per week.)
• Must be currently located in the US (We are a 100% remote/volunteer from home) project
  
  

Preferred (not required):

• An academic degree
  
  

What You’ll Gain

You will have the opportunity to touch the lives of millions of Americans and be part of a movement and product that will receive national attention. You’ll gain an opportunity to grow within the We Vote movement and meet other volunteers who are like-minded and interested in building a valuable application to empower voters across the United States. You’ll also gain valuable technical skills and expand your personal and professional network.

How to apply:

Submit your resume and include a brief note/cover letter to why you are interested in We Vote and our mission.

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