• Deep hands-on experience in one or more financial-services domains, such as public or private markets, syndicated lending, securities processing, counterparty or client lifecycle management, or regulatory reporting. • Strong understanding of end-to-end workflows relevant to those domains (e.g. trade lifecycle, processing, reporting, reconciliation), and how data moves through systems. • Experienced in building medium to long term technology roadmaps and strategy. • Experience integrating and operating AI /ML, or agent-enabled components as part of broader systems, with attention to reliability, explainability, operational controls, and failure modes. • Experience designing systems where data quality, lineage, controls, and auditability are required and visible, not implicit. • Able to reason about domain-driven failure modes (late data, breaks, mismatches, reconciliation issues, regulatory deadlines) and design systems that surface and handle them cleanly. • Acts as a domain-aware technical partner to segment leads and delivery teams. • Strong experience designing and building distributed, data-intensive, and event-driven systems in financial services or similarly regulated environments. • Hands-on experience producing detailed designs and reference implementations and working directly with teams to turn designs into running systems. • Strong judgment around system behaviour in production, including performance, failure modes, resilience, recovery, and risk isolation. • Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including managed services, multi-tenant designs, and cost/performance trade-offs. • Hands on experience in reviewing, writing, and improving production code, and working closely with senior engineers on complex problems.

Salary: $23/hour Location: Remote or Washington, D.C. Content creation, texting production, and reporting Want to break into digital for political campaigns and advocacy groups? Get your start with us. Middle Seat is a digital consulting firm that works with campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and causes on the front lines of reproductive justice, racial justice, climate action, immigration rights, and economic justice. We’re looking for a creative self-starter to support our Texting team as a paid intern for SPRING 2026 (March 2026 - May 2026). What does the role involve? As a texting intern at Middle Seat, you’ll learn the ins and outs of mobile fundraising and donor engagement. You’ll work closely with our texting team to draft fundraising copy, build and QA text campaigns, maintain reporting databases, analyze performance data, pitch creative ideas, and assist with administrative tasks and other responsibilities. You’ll also gain hands-on experience with high-profile progressive campaigns and non-profit organizations while learning how texting programs are built, tested, and optimized to balance donor relationships and fundraising. This role is available either in person at our Washington, D.C office or remotely. This role is not part of the bargaining unit.

Salary: $23/hour Location: Remote or Washington, D.C. Want to break into email? Get your start with us! Middle Seat is a consulting agency that works with some of the biggest names in progressive politics. We work with campaigns, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations on the front lines of racial justice, climate action, immigration rights, intersectional feminism, and economic justice.  We’re looking for a creative self-starter to support our Email team as a paid intern for SPRING 2026 (March 2026 - May 2026). What does the role involve? As an email intern at Middle Seat, you’ll work with our email team to write emails, you’ll use CRM platforms to code and produce emails, you’ll pull performance metrics and help assemble email reports, you’ll help analyze email performance, and you’ll also handle some email-related administrative tasks. This role is available either in person at our Washington, D.C office or remotely. This role is not part of the bargaining unit.

Salary: $23/hour Location: Remote or Washington, D.C. Email acquisition, direct donate, and persuasion. Want to break into digital? Get your start with us. Middle Seat is a full-service firm for progressive causes and candidates. We work with campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy organizations and causes on the front lines of racial justice, climate action, privacy and tech policy, immigration rights, and economic justice.  We’re looking for a creative self-starter to join our team as a paid digital advertising intern for SPRING 2026 (March 2026 - May 2026). What does the role involve? As an advertising intern at Middle Seat, you’ll work with the advertising team by trafficking ads, writing ad copy and petitions, pulling together reports, analyzing ads performance, handling some administrative tasks, and other responsibilities as requested. This role is available either in person at our Washington, D.C office or remotely. This role is not part of the bargaining unit.