Manager, Software Engineering

Who We Are

At Murmuration, we believe that America’s promise is shaped and reshaped by the best ideas and ideals of its communities, and the dreams of the people who believe in a better life for themselves, their families, and each other. 

We help organizations build power in their communities in four key ways: we organize a network of values-aligned partners; we provide deep, data-driven insights into people, places, and perspectives; we develop tools that make organizing and engagement easy and more effective; and we offer services that strengthen our partners’ capacity to lead change in their communities.

We envision an America where every community has what it needs to help people lead healthy, free, and dignified lives. We work to redesign the systems and structures we all depend on — how we learn, live, govern, and solve problems — so that they are just, equitable, resilient, and rooted in shared responsibility. By strengthening the ties that hold communities together, we aim for civic life defined by collective action and care, with effective leadership that truly represents everyone. 

We are a collaborative, curious, and creative team of organizers, scientists, teachers, technologists, campaign veterans, and more who share the unwavering belief that we can use our gifts in service of transforming America — together. We’ve built our team guided by the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And so we support each other relentlessly — rallying together to face challenges the same way we celebrate each other’s wins.

About the Position

Do you see yourself as a mission-driven engineering leader who believes that great products come from strong teams? Do you do your best work in the stretch between "it works for a few pilot partners" and "it works reliably for everyone, at scale"?

We are seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Explorer Team as we bring the product from limited alpha to general availability. Explorer is a data visualization product that facilitates political data exploration through interactive maps and exportable tables, supplemented by an NLP-powered search function. It is live today with a limited set of partners. Getting it to general availability involves establishing the engineering patterns, operational foundations, and testing strategies the product will run on for years.

You will lead the small, close-knit team doing that work. You are inheriting an engaged core group and hiring alongside them, which means the team you finish general availability with is a team that you helped build. This is a role for someone who reads a shifting roadmap as a problem to solve rather than a sign something is broken, and who treats team health as a delivery strategy, not a separate initiative.

What You'll Do

Manage and grow the team
- Manage a team of up to 10 engineers, ensuring each person a clear understanding of how their work aligns with our engineering vision and benefits our Partners;
- Cultivate an inclusive, high-trust culture aligned with Murmuration and engineering values on a team small enough that culture is set by daily behavior rather than policy;
- Manage performance directly and early with support from your director and the people team; and
- Grow the team through participation in our candidate vetting and hiring processes.

Deliver Explorer to General Availability
- Own our sprint planning and scrum ceremonies, keeping them aligned with product priorities and genuinely useful;
- Lead effective retrospectives with an eye toward team-level learning and improvement over time;
- Oversee the software development lifecycle for Explorer, ensuring the platform we hand to partners is robust, stable, secure, and maintainable;
- Create project plans in partnership with other technical leaders, and provide technical project management to ensure delivery of team goals; and
- Identify process and technical challenges and propose solutions that improve both team effec