<p>Are you an experienced Senior/Principal Software Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity in a growing, innovative economy? Clear Ballot develops cutting-edge voting systems and election technology for customers nationwide, and we're looking for talented engineers to join our team and help shape the future of elections.</p> <p>This position is a flexible, hybrid combination of remote (approximately 75%) and in-person (approximately 25%) from our office in Nashua, NH. Please note that we are not able to provide relocation assistance or visa sponsorship at this time.</p> <p>Your responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Design, develop, and implement enhancements for voting systems, election auditing solutions, and related election technologies. </li><li>Write clean, well-factored code that will effectively and simply address requirements. </li><li>Drive key product development activities, including planning, estimation, prototyping, development, automated test development, code reviews, and evaluation/management of third party libraries. </li><li>Investigate and resolve product issues reported through customer and field escalations. </li><li>Champion the continuous improvement of build and test automation. </li><li>Provide periodic customer support, which may include staffing our election day operations center or providing on-site election day assistance. </li><li>Collaborate effectively as an individual contributor within a cross-functional team of software developers, customer support, and product managers. </li><li>Actively participate in planning meetings and contribute to solution design. </li><li>Clearly communicate technical details and deliverable information to team members, customer support, and product managers. </li><li>Participate in code reviews and adhere to modern coding and code review practices. </li><li>Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members by: </li><li>Encouraging best practices for developing well-factored and tested software. </li><li>Developing internal tools and tests to enhance team velocity. </li><li>Reviewing and guiding the software design and specification process, from user stories to actionable tickets. </li><li>Providing guidance on implementation details related to performance and reliability. </li><li>Serving as a trusted and collaborative partner. </li></ul> <p>Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li>Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. </li><li>7+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer. </li></ul> <p>Required Skills and Experience:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Proficient in Python and JavaScript.</p> </li><li> <p>Strong experience and knowledge of Python backend frameworks.</p> </li><li> <p>Proven experience developing web systems on Linux platforms.</p> </li><li> <p>Solid understanding o concurrent programming and performance analysis/optimization techniques.</p> </li><li> <p>Experience with MySQL, including strong knowledge of query analysis and optimization.</p> </li><li> <p>Comprehensive understanding of various automated testing methodologies (unit, integration, correctness, performance).</p> </li><li> <p>Demonstrated experience working in collaborative, agile software development teams.</p> </li><li> <p>Experience refactoring complex software systems.</p> </li><li> <p>Strong commitment to sound software engineering practices, including:</p> </li><li> <p>Incremental development</p> </li><li> <p>Code reviews</p> </li><li> <p>Build and test automation</p> </li><li> <p>Secure coding practices</p> </li><li> <p>Hygienic third-party library management</p> </li><li> <p>Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.</p> </li></ul> <p>Nice to Have's:</p> <ul> <li>Experience developing clean and accessible user interfaces that adhere to modern web development best practices. </li><li>Familiarity with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Vue.js, and Bootstrap. </li><li>Knowledge of security best practices and experience with tools like OpenSSL (including MFA, certificate management, FIPS, etc.). </li><li>Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs based on key principles of uniformity with respect to HTTP method usage, statelessness, clean URL design, etc. </li><li>Experience working with and conforming to government standards and certification processes. </li></ul> <p>Note: Prior experience in the elections industry is not required.</p>