[jlev]

Turnout2020 - https://www.turnout2020.us | Senior Software Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE

Turnout2020 is a nonprofit organization founded by a small team of elections and technology experts (including the founders of Vote.org (YC S16) and Vote.gov), who have come together to combat the chaos of the 2020 election cycle by helping to to drive record-shattering voter turnout. We will accomplish this via hyper-aggressive and targeted outreach to the millions of low and no-propensity voters who are generally neglected by partisan groups. This isn’t just empty rhetoric: collectively we’ve registered about 20 million voters and run GOTV to tens of millions more in our past roles. Now we’re scaling up.

You can join us to take a leading role in the development of Get Out The Vote web applications, primarily by architecting, developing, and deploying high-quality Python code to AWS.

Our code is open source, we pay pretty well for a non-profit, and you get to help to save democracy.

https://jobs.lever.co/turnout2020/2357f5fb-917b-459f-a6f6-d0...

[iandanforth]

"The salary range for the role of Senior Software Engineer is $110K - $120K for candidates based in SF, NYC or DC." Others are scaled down.

[kristopolous]

I did some background research on this company, looking to see if there's some shady funders.

The closest connection appears to be to centrist democratic candidates (some key people worked on Biden/Clintons campaign) - that's fine, I'd expect them to have a political history. Their donations go through actblue (https://www.turnout2020.us/terms/).

I also have a few shared connections on linkedin with some people ... the shared connections are all people legitimately interested in democratic participation and community building.

It appears to be legitimately connected to its mission statement. The parent org, Democracy Builders Fund, furthermore seems to be headquartered in an apartment in harlem, not say, some lobbying group in DC. It appears to be a paper tiger with zero employees, also fine. Taxes are complicated.

Furthermore, there's no other organization headquartered out of there as far as I can tell.

Also ignore the salary scale argument, that's just juicing. The parent "organization" pulls in about $600k/year (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/464...), they're trying to pay as much as they can afford since they AREN'T some puppet organization working for like, oil and cigarettes.

When it comes to democratic coalition building, a mysteriously opulent organization would be a bad sign. the scrappy accounting is yet another point for them.

[jlev]

Thanks for the review, Kristo. We are the real deal, and we'll have all our code on GitHub in a week or two. Just deciding on licenses now.

[kristopolous]

Yeah, I sent you off a resume. I dunno if I can do full time but I really like what you guys are doing. I've been using python since 1.4 in 1997 ... so for a while. Here's a project of mine from about 5 years ago you can look over to see if you're interested in what I can offer: https://github.com/kristopolous/DRR

Here's an overview I made about it: http://indycast.net/about

I still use it and the servers get a few dozen downloads a week ... I really just built it for myself and potentially others if they wanted.