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Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer @ Chariot

Why Chariot

🚀 Chariot is 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, Maveron, Spark Capital, SV Angel, 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, Apple, 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.)

Chariot built the first-ever integrated DAF payment option, DAFpay, which is now live with 30,000 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

Chariot’s Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for taking the Chariot 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. At Chariot, 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 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.

About you

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 we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience.
Be highly proficient working with Go, Node, 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 Chariot

At Chariot, 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. Chariot is 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
- Chariot is doing for charitable transactions what Visa did for the entire banking industry in the 1950s.
De-Risked
- Integrated over 75% of the $230B DAF market, onboarded 30,000+ nonprofits, and live 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.
Benefits
- 🏥 Comprehensive healthcare, including options that are 100% covered by Chariot for you
- 🌴 Strong time-off policy (18 days PTO and 11 holidays) - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge
- 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for primary caregivers
- 🍽️ Weekly team lunches
- 🎉 Monthly team building events
- 😎 To get away - we all convene 2-3x / year company retreats
- 🎁 Matching DAFs and daily charitable giving through GoodToday
Pay Transparency
- Salary range: $150,000 - $200,000 + equity upside.