.NET Software Developer

WeVote • Oakland, CA

20h • Remote

About The Position

Vote USA is working in close collaboration with WeVote. Vote USA has an open volunteer position for a .NET Software Developer using your existing skills with C#, JavaScript, jQuery, .Net, and CSS/HTML for 10 hours or more per week. You are an experienced professional with a passion for helping America navigate our current political environment. This is an opportunity to work remotely with our active team to help us get ready for multiple upcoming elections. Our ideal volunteer is passionate about politics and excited to use technology to educate voters and increase voter turnout. You’ll also gain valuable technical skills, have opportunities for leadership development, and expand your personal and professional network.
About Us
Vote USA has served millions of voters for over 20 years, providing deep information about what is on each voter's ballot.

WeVote is a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote nonprofit startup and a celebrated Fast Forward nonprofit technology grantee. WeVote is a movement of over 160 active passionate, part-time volunteers (starting with the founders) who build mobile technologies that will touch and mobilize millions of voters on Election Day. We believe that many voters are busy, distracted, and impatient. We have a goal of providing a positive voting experience that helps people decide how to vote. More information at https://WeVote.US or @WeVote on X.
Vote USA Platform
Vote USA is built with .Net. There are actually two sites, a public site and a gated admin site. They have separate
code bases but share a C# library. All development is done in Visual Studio on an AWS workstation, with development sites hosted on a local instance of IIS. The live versions of each are hosted on AWS EC2 instances – a single instance for the admin site and a pair of load-balanced instances for the public site. The number and size of the load-balanced servers can be increased during periods of heavy demand (just before major elections). There is also a staging server for the public site. This is primarily to review changes before they go live.

New versions of the admin, public and staging sites are published via .msi files. These are created on the workstation but accessible to the EC2 instances.

The database is hosted on AWS RDS MySQL. There are two instances, a prod instance used by the public, staging and admin servers and a test instance used by the development versions of each.

Requirements

• You want to work with an established and successful team. You are committed to strengthening American Democracy.
• You are striving for personal excellence, and want to do meaningful work that will make a difference.
• 10+ hours per week during our core team hours M-F 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. (in your own time zone)
• A willingness to work with and support other volunteers.

Responsibilities

• Implement new enhancements.
• Fix occasional bugs.
• Add, update, and maintain shape files which are used to construct each voter’s customized ballots based on their postal address. Shape files are used to convert postal addresses into geographical latitude and longitude parameters, which in turn, are then used to determine the various office contests on ballots.
• Respond to AWS server maintenance requirements, like system software sunsets, i.e. the MySQL version we were using.
• Coordinate with WeVote’s engineers to enable Vote USA’s data to be integrated into WeVote’s platform.
• Participate in weekly Zoom meetings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees