Technical Lead

About Las Vegans for Better Transit

We advocate for world-class public transportation and the land use that makes it work through public education, community outreach, and coalition building. We're working toward a Las Vegas Valley where a family doesn't have to drive to get groceries, where a kid can get home from an after-school club without waiting on a parent, where households aren't sinking thousands a year into gas and insurance, and where the preventable crashes that hurt and kill people every year stop happening. Transit as part of everyday life for a real share of the valley, not something only some people use.

Our goal is to become the brand for transit advocacy and better urbanism in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area. We're a relatively new organization, but we're growing and building LVBT to last.

About the role

LVBT’s mission is advocacy through education and public outreach, and technology is a key part of our modern approach to civic engagement. LVBT’s technical lead will have a hands-on role in shaping how we use it to fulfill that mission. You’ll take ownership of LVBT’s tech stack and work with organization leadership to develop and oversee projects aligned to our mission. We’re looking for someone future-facing who can bring an interdisciplinary approach to civic tech to our organization.

You’ll find new ways to use technology to improve our internal processes through automation and systems engineering, and to reach and grow our supporters. That might mean building tools to monitor transit-related legislation; creating a membership platform that turns supporters into recurring participants and rewards event attendance; or developing a personalized tool to help someone see how transit can improve their daily commute.

This role fits someone early in their career who’s ready to rapidly gain experience in civic tech or software engineering.

What you’ll do

As LVBT’s first dedicated member of technical staff, you’ll set LVBT’s technical direction and build the tools to deliver on it. You’ll:

• Decide how LVBT uses technology to win, including what to build, what to adopt, and when
• Keep our existing site and systems healthy, and automate the work software should be doing instead of people
• Build the public tools that make the case for transit and turn supporters into power
• Build with agentic tools like Claude Code or Codex to move fast with a small team

Who we’re looking for

LVBT’s ideal technical lead is someone who can execute technical projects while keeping the bigger picture of our organization’s approach and mission in mind. At minimum, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Ability to work remotely and independently. LVBT is a remote-first organization, and you’ll be expected to take ownership of projects with little guidance.
• Curiosity about transit and urbanism. You understand the value in transit and transit-oriented development and genuinely want to reduce car dependency in Las Vegas.
• An ability to go from 0 to 1 with little guidance. You can take an idea and finish a real software project that is usable by others.
• Strong full-stack web development skills. You understand how modern web applications are architected.
• Comfort dealing with new technologies. You can read some documentation and figure out how to use a tool within a few hours.

Bonus, but not required:

• Experience automating things. Whether you’re using Claude Code or n8n, you can automate repetitive tasks.
• Familiarity with common web tools. We use Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Cloudflare Pages, but experience with all of these tools is not required.
• An eye for design. You understand the fundamentals of user experience design and can build digital interfaces without a dedicated designer.
• Mentorship experience. This role can grow to oversee volunteer contributors and fellows.
• Open-source development experience. LVBT values open source software development.
• Civic tech experience. You’ve created tools for the public.

Additionally, fluency with AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code or Codex is a bonus.

Even if you don’t think you check every box, reach out anyway! Research shows that people from underrepresented groups often hold back unless they meet every listed criterion. Reliability and enthusiasm carry more weight here than a perfect résumé.

What you’ll get

This is a volunteer role. We’re an early-stage nonprofit without payroll yet, so we’re upfront about that — and we make sure it’s worth your time. As the technical lead, you will:

• Own the tools a real organization runs on
• Shape technical direction from day one
• Build a portfolio of live, public-facing work used by real people trying to change how this city moves
• Have the latitude to rethink how civic tech gets built
• Have a seat on a founding team building something meant to outlast any single campaign

If you’re a student, we can verify volunteer hours for any degree program or certification you need.