Clear Ballot Group Looking for Software Engineer at Boston, MA Full Time

Our nation’s elections are being challenged like never before, and the elections industry has historically stifled innovation to improve voting technology. As the first newcomer in the industry in the last 30 years, Clear Ballot rises to the challenge with a simple goal: Let’s create technology that empowers our customers to improve democracy.

Elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, with the right to vote being one of our greatest freedoms. While most Americans across the country watch and read about elections, Clear Ballot lives them. Great elections require secure and reliable tabulation equipment, full transparency of the process in which ballots are created and cast, and the ability to audit the results. Our mission is to surpass those expectations in a way that will raise the bar for the entire election technology industry.

At Clear Ballot, we view collaboration as one of our main drivers for success and we encourage all of our employees to share their thoughts and ideas to help both turn our bold vision into a reality and to make Clear Ballot a great place to work.

Clear Ballot is an innovative and growing manufacturer of hardware and software for voting systems in the United States. Our customers include states and counties across the country. We are seeking Software Engineers to join our team of developers to help us develop election audit tools and use these tools to carry out critical data processing for elections.

This position is a flexible hybrid combination of remote and in-person from our offices in either Boston, MA or Nashua, NH.

What you’ll do:

• Design and develop features and enhancements for our election management and auditing systems
• Participate in key product development activities, including planning, estimation, prototyping, development, automated test development, code reviews, and 3rd-party library evaluation and management
• Investigate and fix product issues from customer and field escalations
• Advocate for incremental and continued improvements to workflow automation, including unit tests, automated integration tests, correctness tests, performance tests, etc.
• Provide periodic support for our customers by staffing our election night operations center, staffing election audit projects, or by providing on-site election day product assistance
• Work as an individual contributor on a cross-functional team of software developers and collaborate with customer support team and product managers
• Participate in planning meetings, contribute to the design and estimation of solutions
• Liaise with Product and Customer Support managers to understand requirements
• Clearly communicate technical and deliverable details to team members, customer support and product managers
• Participate in code reviews and adhere to modern coding and code review practices
• Complete work on time to meet immutable election season deadlines

Desired skills and experience:

• MS or BS in Computer Science or similar field of study
• 3+ years of experience as SWE developing on-premise or SaaS products
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong commitment to good software engineering practices, including incremental development, code reviews, build and test automation, secure coding practices, hygienic 3rd party library management
• Experience with Python, PyTest, PEP8, Black, OpenSSL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue, Bootstrap, bash, Git, GitLab, Jira, Docker, AWS, Azure, MySQL
• **Experience with object-oriented software development and dynamic programming languages
• Solid understanding of different types of automated tests, including unit tests, integration tests, correctness tests and performance tests, etc,
• Experience using a modern issue tracking system such as Jira
• Experience with either Scrum or Kanban methodologies
• Experience working on collaborative, agile software development teams
• A mindset focused on growth and a desire to learn. Ability to embrace challenges and be persistent in the face of setbacks
• No prior election industry experience is required

Clear Ballot Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to diversity and dedicated to professional development and advancement. We believe everyone deserves to work in a welcoming, respectful and considerate environment. We live by our values and hire accordingly.

Our talented team and driven investors share a passion for solving problems and restoring confidence in America’s democratic process. We are looking for energetic professionals to join us in this mission.

Take a minute and ask yourself this question: Do you care about increasing transparency in elections, defending a fair democratic process, and innovating for public good?

If the answer is a resounding “YES!”, we want you to join our team.