Junior Python Engineer

About Quorum

Based in Washington, D.C., Quorum is a fast-growing software company and is the leading provider of workflow software and information services for government affairs professionals across the corporations, non-profits, associations, and governmental end-markets. Quorum allows users to manage stakeholder engagement, launch grassroots advocacy campaigns, and track legislative activity at all levels of government, including federal, state, and local.

Quorum provides mission-critical solutions to public affairs professionals for their work in Congress, all 50 state legislatures, major U.S. cities, the European Union, and 30+ countries around the globe. Quorum serves over 2,000 customers globally including over 50% of the Fortune 100, and has over 350 team members across the globe. The company recently acquired Capitol Canary, a market leader in grassroots advocacy software.

About the Role

As a Python Software Engineer within Quorum's Data development team, you'll contribute to the company's mission of delivering exceptional software for public affairs professionals. Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you'll utilize a full-stack approach, employing tools like Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS, and more. Your primary focus will be on developing and maintaining data scrapers and spiders, ensuring the efficient, accurate, and reliable collection of data from online sources in line with agreed-upon SLAs with clients. You'll proactively uphold high data quality standards, collaborating with team members to address performance and scalability concerns while continuously researching and adopting best practices in web scraping and data engineering.

What You'll Do

• First Week: You'll ship new code to production.
• First Month: You'll write code at several levels of the stack, from infrastructure to the API to the UI.
• First Six Months: You'll take ownership of an entire set of features and make decisions that impact many clients.
• First Year: You'll help guide our team as we make broad technical decisions impacting our stack, our products, and the growth of the entire company.

About You

• 2+ years of work experience at a company that produces software for end users as its primary function
• Professional experience writing application code in backend languages like Python and Django
• You have experience with web scraping, spiders, and web crawlers
• Professional experience with any relational databases, including writing SQL queries, table and index design, and system tuning for performance
• Able and motivated to design complex technical systems, write technical design documentation, and implement design
• You not only care about the quality of code you write but also have a strong desire to build skills of those around through code review and mentorship
• You care deeply about the code you write and either have significant technical skills solving real-world problems or the drive to quickly develop them
• You have an interest in learning new development languages and platforms used by the wider team
• You're a highly-motivated self-starter who wants to make valuable contributions to a team from day 1
• You're an engaged learner—you want to expand your skills, get your hands dirty, and find solutions to challenging problems that require tradeoffs
• You want to work in a fun environment where you can form real friendships with other professionals and where you have a strong sense of belonging at a growing startup
• You're excited to pitch in wherever needed, from helping in recruiting to supporting customers
• You are looking to join a dynamic team immediately

About the Software Development Team

• We’re a fast-growing team that is dedicated to improving our people, processes, and platform. The 100+ person team is composed of different functions including software engineering, Product Management, Product Design, QA, Devops/SRE, and an Information Security team
• We support many different products but internally think of them as one system with a single unified codebase. Our goal is to build centralized systems that handle complex problems for multiple features and products
• We’re focused on doing the important things the right way -- we write solid documentation, test our code well, design for scale, and follow defined software development processes
• We follow best-in-class security practices to safeguard our data and application against bad actors. We regularly test and update processes and technology to fight complacency because we know good security is a continuous effort
• We curate high-quality datasets that are essential for effective mapping and tracking of the government and public affairs spaces. Our datasets underpin our promise to give users the information necessary to make smart decisions that influence policy
• We set rigorous quality standards and monitor them with a mix of programmatic and manual verifications to ensure users maintain a high degree of trust in our systems
• We’re very close as a team and invest not only in each other's skills and careers but also in building real relationships with one another: product development is a team sport and we believe that it’s better and more fun to work on a team of people that you know well and care about

Our Work Environment

We are a remote-first team with flexible work options: work remotely, or you may choose to come into our office in Belo Horizonte.

Do you want to learn what it's like to have a real impact at a fast-growing company that is changing the way the advocacy process works? If so, drop us a line. We'd love to talk to you!

Benefits

• Standard Brazil Holidays
• Monthly Work from Home Stipend
• Mental and Dental Care by SulAmérica
• Monthly Professional Development/Mental Health stipend
• Alelo Food Voucher
• Incompany English classes
• Free Subscription to the Calm app
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Inclusion & Diversity Affinity Groups to support belonging
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

This is a CLT opportunity

Quorum Is Working to Advance Pay Equity

In an effort to continue to build a diverse and inclusive work environment that advances pay equity, Quorum has implemented a “No Negotiation” policy for base salary for new hires for roles that are currently staffed by three or more team members. This means that candidates for the Fullstack Software Engineer II role cannot negotiate Quorum’s base salary offer.

Here’s our promise to you:

• We will not ask you what you are currently earning
• We will consider years of relevant experience, relevant professional certifications/education, and performance expectations in setting what we believe is a competitive, fair base salary offer
• We will be transparent about our compensation structure (see above) so that all candidates have equal access to compensation information and can make an informed decision about whether or not Quorum is the right workplace for them

If you are interested in learning more about how negotiation impacts pay equity and/or why other start-ups have decided to implement a “No Negotiation” policy of some type, here are a few resources: Project Include, AAUW, Ministry for Women, Magoosh.

Note: Quorum does not endorse or verify any of the information provided in the resources on the impact of negotiation on pay equity. We provide these resources simply to increase awareness of a topic we believe is important for both employers and candidates to consider.

We comply with all requirements for US government federal contractors issued by the OFCCP, IFR, and the terms of our government contracts.

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