Chariot
A payment network connecting nonprofits to the $229B in DAFs
Senior Backend Engineer
About the role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Chariot, you will lead the evolution of our banking and DAF product and technology strategy, while continuing to help us build our team. Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll work closely with a dedicated team of founding engineers to build a product that can scale to service all of 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, loves mentorship and values collaboration. At Chariot, you’ll have the unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact for nonprofits around the world.
- 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 the interview
Intro chat with Recruiter to share what we are building and learn about your interests. We are searching for creativity, enthusiasm, and ownership. (30 mins)
Meeting with a Co-Founder (45-60 mins)
Two technical interviews with members of the team (45-60 mins each)
Meet the team in our NYC office in Midtown (60 mins)
Offer decision time!
The typical interview process takes 2-4 weeks from start to finish. This tends to be mostly based on our eng team’s availability. That said, we have moved more quickly and look to accommodate candidates who might have a short timeline or competing offers. The more information you can share about your situation and where you are in the process, the more we can either attempt to expedite/match, or save you time if we cannot.
About 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. We are currently backed by YC, 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, 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.
What you’ll get from Chariot
- 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 with 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 and Pay Transparency
- 🏥 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 birthing 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
