Senior Python Developer

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.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 DoFirst 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 You5+ years of work experience at a company that produces software for end users as it primary functionProfessional experience writing application code in backend languages like Python and DjangoYou have experience with web scraping, spiders and web crawlersProfessional experience with any relational databases, including writing SQL queries, table and index design and system tuning for performanceAble and motivated to design complex technical systems, write technical design documentation, and implement designYou not only the care about the quality of code you write but also has a strong desire to build skills of those around through code review and mentorshipYou 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 where ever needed, from helping in recruiting to supporting customers.You are looking to join a dynamic team immediately.

About the Software Development TeamWe’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 others’ 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 EnvironmentWe 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!

BenefitsFlexible Paid Time OffStandard Brazil holidays plus additional company-wide days off for team members to rest and rechargeFree Subscription to the Calm AppFree Subscription to Linkedin Learning to support professional developmentInvest in Yourself Days - one designated day per quarter is dedicated to your professional development!Monthly Work from Home StipendMental and Dental Care by SulAméricaVirtual and in-person team eventsMental Health stipendAlelo Food VoucherIn company English classesInclusion & Diversity Affinity Groups to support belonging12 weeks of paid parental leave

This is a CLT opportunity

For any questions regarding any open roles on our team, please reach out to recruiting@quorum.us.

Key Skills

• Python
• SQL