Backend Engineer
About the role
Backend Engineer role at Chariot, a YC-backed nonprofit-focused payment infrastructure company. Lead backend platform development, shape API and architecture, and grow the engineering team in a fast-moving, in-person NYC environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage and build out the backend server applications and components that comprise the Chariot 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.
Qualifications
- 4+ 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 experience also considered.
Skills
Benefits
- Healthcare: Comprehensive healthcare, including options that are 100% covered by Chariot for you
- Time-Off: 18 days PTO and 13 holidays
- Parental Leave: 100% paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for primary caregivers
- Team Lunches: Weekly team lunches
- Dinner on Chariot: Free dinner every day at office past 8pm
- Team Events: Monthly team building events
- Employee-friendly equity: 2 year exercise window and double-trigger acceleration
- Company Retreats: 2-3x per year company retreats
- Matching Gifts: Matching DAFs and daily charitable giving through GoodToday
About Chariot
A payment network connecting nonprofits to the $250B in DAFs
Chariot is building financial products for nonprofits, starting with the first ever online payment system connecting Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) with nonprofits. DAF’s have $250 billion in assets and grant out over $52 billion per year to nonprofits. It’s the fastest growing segment of philanthropy, by far. Chariot now powers seamless DAF giving for tens of thousands of nonprofits, including some of the most well-known nonprofits in the country, like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Central Park Conservancy, Boys & Girls Club of America, Pan-Mass Challenge, and March of Dimes. DAFpay is also now a primary payment option on leading fundraising platforms like GoFundMe, Givebutter, DonorDrive, Springboard by Jackson River, Engaging Networks, and dozens more. We are already driving tens of millions in new online DAF Giving by thousands of donors, and we’re only getting started.
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