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 systems thinker who loves to build products that make a difference at scale? Do you thrive in inclusive and thoughtful environments with leaders who empower you to influence how an organization learns, grows, and delivers impact? We at Murmuration are seeking a Software Architect to act as a force multiplier for our engineering organization to help us build the future of civic tech.
Murmuration builds technology that helps our partner organizations strengthen civic engagement and organize more effectively in their communities. Our products weave together data (engagement, outreach, demographic, and voter data) and software applications that help partners better understand and organize outreach among the people they serve. Our team is intentionally multidisciplinary and partner-focused. We succeed together by aligning planning, execution, and learnings from engineering, product, design, research, data, and partner success teams. We build complex, data-driven systems, CRM-style apps, and communication channels that need to work reliably during critical moments, scale as our partners grow, and remain understandable and maintainable as communities and their needs evolve.
As a Software Architect, you will be one of Murmuration’s most senior individual contributors and a key technical leader across the organization. You will have the opportunity to partner with senior leadership to solve Murmuration's hardest and most ambiguous technical challenges. In this non-management role, you will lead through influence and apply your deep technical expertise and strong judgment, and take a pragmatic, hands-on approach grounded in partner needs and real-world system behavior. Your work will bridge business strategy with technical execution to design and evolve how Murmuration builds software and supports our partners. This includes architectural standards, technical decision-making frameworks, and cross-team alignment mechanisms that improve velocity, quality, and long-term systems health.
This role is organizational in scope and may require contributing directly when doing so helps teams move forward. You will drive decisions across multiple teams by clarifying tradeoffs, identifying risks, and helping the organization move ahead even when the path is not fully certain. You will partner closely with engineering managers, tech leads, product, and design leaders to ensure technical plans align with user needs, reduce friction in delivering value, and support Murmuration’s long-term mission. You will help the organization make better technical decisions, faster, while raising the bar for rigor, clarity, and accountability.
This role offers the opportunity to shape Murmuration's long-term technical and leadership trajectory, elevate engineering effectiveness across teams, and make impact on the future of our products, data, and systems which empower our communities.
Job Level: P7
Requirements
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Talented Software Architects come from all walks of life and career. If you are passionate about civic engagement and technology, please apply, even if you do not check every box!
Benefits
Location and Compensation
The Software Architect is a full-time, salaried position with a comprehensive benefits package (detail below), open to candidates anywhere in the United States.
The starting salary for this position is $296,965. We set compensation using market data and apply it consistently across the organization to ensure fairness and transparency for everyone in similar roles.
Our Culture of Care
We work hard to create a culture of care to ensure that our staff are best equipped to lead happy, healthy, and balanced lives. To that end, we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes:
At Murmuration, we believe a vibrant, representative democracy depends on the inclusion of diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives. The best ideas don’t come from a single person or ideology — they emerge at the intersection of different backgrounds, identities, and viewpoints. We are proud of our commitment to building an organization and culture shaped by respect, empathy, and collaboration, where our team’s diversity fuels innovation, civic engagement, and meaningful change. We welcome new colleagues who will help us nurture this collective effort. Join us.
An Equal-Opportunity Employer with a Commitment to Diversity
Murmuration is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices, we consider applicants equally of race, gender, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, political affiliation and national origin. We reasonably accommodate staff members and/or applicants with disabilities, provided they are otherwise able to perform the essential functions of the job.
Note: Murmuration is two organizations working together to pursue our mission of amplifying the power of civic engagement: Murmuration Research Institute, a 501(c)(3) that conducts research to identify, design, and create the data, tools, and insights that build healthier and more equitable communities; and Murmuration, Inc., a 501(c)(4) that supports organizations working across the country on the nation’s most challenging issues with access to data, tools, and research that build healthier and more equitable communities.
Murmuration's mission is to transform the politics of K-12 public education. We believe that electoral, organizing and advocacy work is key to creating a sustainable and growing base of voters and other stakeholders, especially in marginalized communities, and elected officials who are committed to fighting for an equitable and high quality public education system. By providing data, tools, research and strategic guidance to our partner community, we believe that we can create a sector that is best positioned to make long term, systemic changes to public schools possible. Creating an equitable and high-quality public education system will pave the way for generations of children to reach their fullest potential.
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