Software Engineer - Full stack - Inhouse or remote

Salary Competitive

Join us in building the tools we need, to create the world we want 🌍

If we are going to solve some of the most pressing challenges of our time, such as the climate and biodiversity crisis or global inequality, we need to become much better at organising ourselves.

Acter is a non-profit organisation, building an open source tool to support communities, activists and movements across the world, enabling them to better organise, mobilise and coordinate action.


From pilot to full functional and scalable platform

During the last three years we have managed to build a pilot with our users.

We have  established partnerships with global organisations, built a community of users and expanded our contributor community, consisting of developers, designers and ambassadors.

We are now looking to take Acer from a pilot, to a fully functional and scalable platform. This includes maturing the current web app, with development of core features, responsive design, improved speed and initiating the build of a native mobile version.

To do this, we are looking for the right person who is bold, crazy, visionary and skilled enough, to lead the build of what will become the go to platform for coordinating action on global challenges.


🧙‍♀️ About you

  • As a human, you are kind and passionate. As a team member you are supportive and curious and not afraid to ask questions. 

  • You want to use your skills as a developer  to change the status quo and believe that technology (if used right) holds the potential to push for the transformative change that is needed.

  • You love to code and are eager to learn and seek new knowledge. 

  • You are comfortable with high uncertainty and see opportunities instead of barriers or limitations.


📝 What you will do

  • Lead the implementation of end-to-end features from specifications and designs

  • Problem solve permutations and edge cases

  • Maintain quality and platform reliability

  • Participate in scrum meetings to plan development sprints

  • When needed, participate in partnership meetings to understand needs and together with our team identify, develop and deploy features.

  • Support our open source community of developers (review pull requests, answering technical questions, help build an effective structure)


🤹‍♀️ Your professional qualifications

  • You should be comfortable developing both web and native app systems and preferably have a few examples to show

  • Experience min. 4-5 years

  • Full stack experience

  • Able to communicate with team members, co-developers and stakeholders

  • Experience with agile methodology, incl. sprint planning 

  • You have good time management skills, including prioritising and scheduling. 


1️⃣Required skills

  • React

  • Typescript

  • GraphQL

  • Next.js

  • Understanding of visual and UX design principles. 


2️⃣Its an advantage to have know-how within:

  • Material-UI

  • Storybook

  • Heroku

  • Open Source projects


🎉What we can offer in return 

  • A 4 day work week

  • High autonomy and freedom with responsibility 

  • Working with a small but kick ass team that values trust, psychological safety and mental wellbeing.

  • Working closely together with awesome social right movements, environmental groups and networks around the world.


🔮Expectation

  • We are securing funding to pay salary (start-up range)

  • Acter is self-owning and as such we can't offer direct equity. Instead we offer a position in the core team that manages and leads the development.

  • Currently, we have an office in Aarhus but also work remotely (Maximum plus, minus 4 hours of CET)

  • We are looking for someone who feel strongly connected to Acter’s mission and who intends to commit for a longer period, despite the ups and downs and uncertainty that is given in a not-for-profit, open source project like Acter.

⭕️ Important:

In the short message in the application, please describe:

1. Why you want to become part of the Acter team.

2. What drives you?

3. If you could have dinner with any person (dead or alive) who would it be and why?


Looking forward to hearing from you!

Cheers and change

The Acter team


Ps. 

We will keep applications open until we have found the right candidate :)


Link to Github: https://github.com/acterglobal

For more information or questions please contact us at emil@acter.global or phone number +45 91530108

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.

Mental health support
Mental health support

We care about your wellbeing. We take stress seriously and support you in times with any mental imbalance.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Work life balance
Work life balance

Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

Metropolitists, beach boys and mountaineers we salute you and pay you to go and explore the world.

Working at
Acter

Acter is a non profit Association who is building an all in one mobile and desktop app for effective organizing. Encrypted and decentralized. The free and open internet has been co-opted by large players, and it's all too easy for governments, corporations, and other non-aligned actors to spy on people, in particular on organizers and activists. We, the Acter team, are building Acter to enable privacy-first organizing, using strong resource-aware cryptography in familiar user interfaces. We leverage technology to foster new and smarter ways of organising, breaking down silos, creating more transparency, inclusion, engagement, empowerment - and above all, action! Come to join us! Frequently Asked Questions: **Where is Acter located?** Acter is a 100% remote company with employees all around the world. Although we have a desk in Aarhus, Denmark, we all work from home or a workspace of our choice. Our team members are based in Aarhus (DK), Lisbon (PT), Magdeburg (DE), Nairobi (KE), Islamabad (PK), Boston (US), Shenyan (CH), and more. **How is Acter funded?** We have a previous product that is already being used by customers, and it has helped us convince some NGOs to become partners and support our work towards the next major milestone. Some of our partners include ActionAid, CISU, Amnesty International, Greenpeace Nordic, OceanKAN, and NCCDH, to name a few. **How will Acter become financially sustainable?** Our goal is to enable activists to become more effective through the tools we have built. Thus, we want the revenue to come from the same source to ensure we stay on course. In addition to the free-forever version, there will be a more advanced version for larger groups that requires an extra subscription. We are also partnering with NGOs to offer the service in a decentralized manner and they will be paying for that service as well. **What does the application process look like?** We keep it simple and straightforward. We will review the information you have submitted and research additional information we consider relevant. If we like what we see, we will contact you about a video call with the team lead (for tech and product, that would be @Ben(GNUnicorn)), where we will discuss more in-depth how we would like to proceed. **How big is Acter’s team?** We currently a team of 9 people, spread across 7 countries. **How many people do you plan to hire?** We plan to grow the team, but we will do so one person at a time to ensure everyone settles in and becomes effective. Therefore, we will be filling these roles slowly and as needed. Expect that we might be adding 3-4 people by the end of the year (2023).

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