Software Engineer, Nonspecific - FiscalNote｜Meet.jobs

About the Position
At FiscalNote, we help connect people and organizations to their governments. The platforms we build ingest and analyze terabytes of unstructured policy data, allowing our clients to find the right information at the right time. You will work predominantly on our backend service layer, which is responsible for everything from data ingestion to search and alerting. As a high-growth company, you’ll never have a boring day: the opportunity to work across multiple products, teams, and features are routine at FN. You will get the opportunity to work at a late-stage startup pushing the boundaries of open data transparency while collaborating with some of the industry’s brightest engineers, data scientists, designers, and product professionals.

About the Team
The R&D team spans backend developers, data engineers, and data scientists. We work on search engines, python infrastructure, machine learning models, APIs, raw data ingestion pipelines, and much more.

About You
You are just as comfortable charting your own course as you are collaborating deeply with a team. You consider yourself an independent thinker, who loves to work on ambitious projects and relentlessly pursues creative technological solutions. You value iterative improvement, and love building prototypes. You may have spent a lot of time playing with legos as a kid. You might still play with legos. You enjoy diving deep on new domains. Ambiguity energizes you, and you enjoy finding optimizations in an ever-changing environment. You like working in an environment with multiple tech stacks.

What to Expect:

• Continue to build out our backend service layer, placing an emphasis on scalability
• Work across teams to ensure cohesion and collaboration across R&D functions (Engineering, Product, QA, Data, etc.)
• Own and drive forward projects
• Be excited to learn and work with a ton of technologies, from Databricks to Elasticsearch to Ansible
• Build and maintain data pipelines that collect, transform and enable easy, fast access to hundreds of disparate datasets collected from our scraping platform

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline or a combination of Technical Bootcamps, Trainings and relevant experience in software engineering or software development on the job
• You are curious and a fast learner -- we value teachability over existing knowledge
• Deep understanding of object-oriented software engineering, data structures, and algorithms
• Interest in policy and government
• Willingness to own projects and grow your skillset
• Prior experience with core technologies we use: Python, AWS, git, Elasticsearch, PostgresQL; And Methods / Practices we use: test-driven development, service-oriented architectures, API design

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Considering US locations only for this position and time zone requirements may apply in order to address team and business needs.

About FiscalNote
FiscalNote is the premier information services company focused on global policy and market intelligence. By combining AI technology, expert analysis, and legislative, regulatory, and geopolitical data, FiscalNote is reinventing the way that organizations minimize risk and capitalize on opportunity.

Home to CQ, Roll Call, Oxford Analytica, and VoterVoice, FiscalNote empowers more than 5,000 clients worldwide to monitor, manage, and act on the issues that matter most to them. To learn more about FiscalNote and its family of brands, visit FiscalNote.com and follow @FiscalNote.

At FiscalNote, we Lead with Values
Know your Audience ∙ Find the Truth ∙ Drive Alignment ∙ Level Up ∙ Own the Job ∙ Bias for Action ∙ Support the Family

FiscalNote is continuing to hire new talent, with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. New team members, along with our current staff, will temporarily work remotely (unless communicated otherwise).

If your background and experience align with the competencies above, we encourage you to apply so that we can review your experience and learn more about how you can add to FiscalNote’s growth and success.

Company Benefits
FiscalNote offers competitive salaries, equity packages, and retirement accounts to ensure we’re all FN owners. We work hard, so our open vacation policy helps us ensure you’re getting the R&R you need. We offer comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance options supplemented by a flexible spending account (FSA). We have a slew of other benefits which you can check out at careers.FiscalNote.com.

FiscalNote values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, race, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation or age. FiscalNote is an EEOC employer.