Senior Backend Engineer - Recruitment Room : Job Details

We are a charitable payments company that's revolutionizing the philanthropic financial system. We believe more money needs to move to nonprofits faster so we are building tools that activate more philanthropic dollars and transform nonprofit operations to be more efficient. We are currently backed by Y Combinator, Spark Capital, SV Angel, CRV, Teamworthy Ventures, and top-tier angel investors like Mike Massaro, Adam Grant, and Angela Duckworth. Our team is made up of passionate and talented individuals with prior work experience at Blackrock, Bain, Goldman Sachs, Palantir, and Forage (YC21). We are fully in-person in New York City, which helps us maintain our extremely collaborative and caring team culture. Company Overview Of the $500 billion donated to nonprofits each year, only about $60 billion comes through traditional online payment rails like credit cards. The other $440B move through offline processes and archaic systems. Not only is this bad system risky and slow, it creates tremendous operational burden at nonprofit organizations and deters total giving. One of the best examples of this is Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). DAFs hold $230B+ in charitable assets and are the fastest growing vehicle in philanthropy. However, millions of DAF users are stuck behind archaic login portals, emails, or even phone calls to make a donation. Even though these are savings accounts specifically designed for charity, you can't use them to pay in any of the places you're most likely to give (a nonprofit website, donation form, campaign page, etc.) We built the first-ever integrated DAF payment option, DAFpay, which is now live with 6,000 nonprofits, dozens of fundraising platforms and over 70% of the DAF market by volume. DAFpay's usage is averaging double digit month over month growth for the last 18 months and isn't slowing down. Our customers include some of the largest and most well known nonprofits in the country like American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen, March of Dimes, Pan-Mass Challenge, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and PETA. Check out our demo here and see our nonprofit advisory council. We are entering an exciting phase of growth and expanding our team to bring tens of thousands of nonprofits onboard while expanding our product capabilities to solve even deeper problems for the nonprofit sector. Job Description The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for taking the platform to the next level. You will lead the evolution of our banking product, DAF product and technology strategy, along with building a growing team of software engineers. You will work closely with the CEO and team of founding engineers to build out a product that can scale to service all the existing and upcoming contracts in our pipeline. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker. You'll have the unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact for nonprofits around the world while working as part of a small, fast-moving team. Manage and build out the backend server applications and components that comprise the platform that power our various product offerings. Contribute to the architecture and design of our APIs, backend systems, and applications and help define team standards and best practices. Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies. Improve real-time and analytical monitoring and alerting capabilities for us to better understand our user behaviors and iterate on our product. Communicate effectively with founders, product managers, and other software developers. Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment. About you 3-6+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. 2+ years of relevant work experience as a backend application developer building performant and scalable backend systems. Bachelor's Degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience. Be highly proficient working with Node.js, Golang, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Experience with Postgres (RDBMS), REST APIs, and gRPC. Strong sense of responsibility; ability to drive a project from inception to completion. Experience with fintech, payments, and the nonprofit-sector is a plus. Experience building secure and scalable applications on AWS is a plus. What you'll get from us We are building modern, end-to-end payment infrastructure making donors' lives easier, and nonprofits' lives better. $500B gets donated to charity each year in the US and the existing technology/infrastructure was still built for our grandparents generation. We are here to change that. Impact Increase donation volume to hundreds of thousands of nonprofits that service homelessness, health, education, the environment, and so much more. An Exciting Challenge We are doing for charitable transactions what Visa did for the entire banking industry in the 1950s. De-Risked Integrated over 70% of the $230B DAF market, onboarded 6,000+ nonprofits in one year, and signed contracts with the largest fundraising platforms (GoFundMe, Givebutter, etc.) Market opportunity Billion dollar revenue opportunity. Fintech company operating in an untapped $440B market In Person Culture NYC office in person with WFH optionality. Pay Transparency Salary range: $140,000 - $180,000 + equity upside. Job category Software Engineering Locations New York, NY, USA Yearly salary $140,000 - $180,000 Employment type Full-time Required Experience 3+ Years Work Sponsorship Unavailable