Change.org is a rapidly expanding, profitable social venture growing by hundreds of thousands of members a month and empowering people across the globe to win social action campaigns on a wide range of issues such as human rights, global poverty, and environmental protection. Our current partners include hundreds of the world’s largest nonprofits, including Amnesty International, Sierra Club, Human Rights Campaign, and the United Nations Foundation.
Change.org is the fastest-growing platform for social change on the web, pioneering a new model of distributed organizing that empowers anyone, anywhere to start, join, and win campaigns for social change.
YOU WANT
- to be part of a small, close-knit team
- to work for a profitable company that is making the world better
- an agile environment (TDD, pairing, short release cycles)
- Mac OS X as your development environment
YOU HAVE
- worked on at least one high-performance, consumer-facing web site and / or a github account that speaks for itself
- skills in all tiers of the web application stack
- rewritten code to help yourself sleep better at night
- familiarity with Ruby or Python
- expertise in both SQL and No-SQL data stores
- a solid understanding of scalability best practices in modern web application product development
YOU CAN
- navigate the command-line in a Linux environment
- integrate ruby code with web service APIs
- navigate and grok an existing, large code base
YOU WILL
- write clean, performant, and test-driven code in ruby, Javascript, haml, sass, and SQL
- contribute to our bottom line through rigorous analytics and A/B testing
- aggressively re-factor the codebase to improve its quality
- use your skills to make the world better
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.