Murmuration transforms how campaigns, advocates, and organizers identify, engage, and mobilize people and communities. Our focus is on driving change and accelerating progress toward a future where every child in America has the opportunity to benefit from a high-quality public education. We provide sophisticated data and analytics, proprietary technology, strategic guidance, and programmatic support to help our partners increase civic engagement and marshal support so necessary changes are made to improve our public schools. We have unified multiple tech product companies into our organization to accelerate our efforts toward a more equitable future for generations to come. Our precise, predictive intelligence and easy-to-use tools are used by practitioners and funders, on their own and working together, to make informed decisions about who they need to reach, what they need to say, and how to achieve and sustain impact. Our team includes experts and innovators in data, analytics, and strategy. We are former teachers, organizers, data scientists, nonprofit executives and campaign veterans, and we are looking for people whose passion and expertise can help improve our work and realize our vision.
Software Architect
Location
United States
Posted
40 days ago
Salary
$297.0K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with sustained impact as a senior tech leader (Staff+, Principal, Architect, or equivalent)
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct people management
- Experience leading architectural evolution or transformation in established organizations, particularly at the intersection of technology and organizational structure
- Strong architectural judgment across system design, scalability, reliability, and performance trade-offs
- Experience establishing or evolving technical decision-making mechanisms (design reviews, architecture forums, decision records)
- Track record of modeling high standards for technical design quality, documentation, and peer review
- Executive-level communication skills, with experience representing senior IC perspectives in engineering leadership or executive forums.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, high-leverage problem spaces where influence matters more than authority
- Strong systems thinking, end-to-end perspective, and architectural judgement, with a clear instinct for second-order effects (anticipating long-term, indirect consequences of technical and architectural decisions)
- Exceptional communication skills, particularly in facilitating complex technical trade-offs among senior engineers and leaders
- Effective engagement with exec stakeholders to translate engineering constraints, risks, and opportunities into product and business context, and ability to translate business priorities into technical strategy
- Coaching mindset and a genuine desire to uplevel others via mentorship/sponsorship, design review, and lived example
- Be like Ted Lasso: Believe. Build trust. Demonstrate: Kindness, empathy, optimism, curiosity, and vulnerability. Lift up the team
- Bias toward action, focus on outcomes vs outputs, model "good enough" vs perfection, build durable solutions that improve how teams work not just what they ship
- Ability to synthesize multi-faceted problems into strategic roadmaps, prioritize, estimate technical complexity, composition/timelines for milestones, identify gaps and glue with a mindset toward improving reliability, scalability, performance, cost-to-serve, development velocity, operational stability, and long-term sustainability
- Ability and motivation to deeply understand customer needs, design patterns, and actual customer usage across systems to uplevel hand-offs between teams and delight users.
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members;
- Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match;
- A flexible unlimited PTO plan;
- Generous paid parental leave;
- Pre-tax commuter benefits;
- A company laptop;
- A flexible remote work environment;
- A home office setup stipend for all new employees;
- Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses;
- A yearly professional development fund;
- Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help;
- Yearly in-person staff retreats;
- A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
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