Front-End Lead Engineer

Overview

We are searching for a frontend lead engineer to help build the foundation for GiveDirectly's donor-facing growth efforts. This individual must have strong coding ability - plus the drive to stretch beyond the code into strategy, product/UI design, testing, and more. This is a unique opportunity to be an integral part of our product team. Led by the Growth Engineering Lead, our product tech team works across fundraising, field operations, and finance, focusing on projects that create increased donor engagement and help to reimagine how the social sector approaches donor growth. We anticipate 50% of your time will be spent building new products and innovative new content and 50% improving our existing website and donate experience.

Responsibilities

As the front end engineering lead, your work will span new and existing products owned by the product team, including:

• Driving dollars committed to the poor by building innovative new products for GD's donor communities such as donation tracking and impact data visualizations
• Building and maintaining a modern, performant, delightful, and accessible donation experience
• Designing and implementing A/B tests to guide data-driven decision making

We're looking for candidates with:

• 3+ years post-education industry experience as a front-end developer, creative technologist or web developer
• You have a portfolio, repo and/or code samples of projects you've launched
• You are comfortable working closely with product managers and design to build from Sketch or Figma
• You have familiarity with modern web development tools: HTML, CSS, JS, and specifically the React / React Native frameworks
• You have a high attention to detail and care about building high quality, accessible experiences across devices, platforms, and locales
• Bonus: experience with any of: data visualization, motion and animation,instrumenting A/B tests, CRM (Salesforce)
• Note: this is an IC role, but will involve ownership of the frontend stack as well as working managing the work of external contractors and potential new hires going forward.

Outside of technical proficiency, we are looking for people with:

• An ability to translate ideas into coherent software development roadmaps and subsequently into shipped products
• Strong analytical skills and communication - able to break down complex problems, describe trade-offs, and communicate recommended next steps
• Evangelism for writing clean, readable, and performant code
• A willingness to give and receive direct, honest feedback
• A desire to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.

Existing stack / products:

• Recipient carousel: This page allows donors to be matched with pre-enrolled recipients, delivering periodic updates from the recipients your money is reaching. Built with a Flask backend and a Vue.js app for the frontend.
• Donate page: This allows donors to give via credit card, PayPal, or other methods. It is hosted on AWS, the front end uses Vue.js as the framework. The backend is a php app hosted on AWS which syncs data between the front end, our payments processors, and Salesforce using a Redis instance to cache data.
• GDLive: This product shows a live feed of recipient stories from our field database. The infrastructure is hosted on AWS while the app is a ruby on rails app which leverages AWS's SQS service, postgres databases and a linux servers behind an ELB and pulls data from our recipient databases.
• Marketing website: Our site is a WordPress website that is maintained by the marketing team. We do not expect this role or the product team to maintain the site. Though we anticipate the candidate engaging with existing resources when integrations are needed.

Why work at GiveDirectly?

At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:

• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement
• A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
• A competitive salary
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Unlimited PTO (that we encourage staff to take!)
• Desk allowance and flexible work location

Read more about our ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts here and about our decision to move our central support teams to remote first here.

**GD is committed to observing all local, national and international laws that protect children, vulnerable adults, and basic human rights of all. GD is committed to a policy of "zero tolerance for sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH)" and expects anyone who works for GD to uphold the protection and safeguarding of our recipients as a priority.**

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