Senior Backend Engineer

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.

• 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 ChariotAt 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 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.