# Backend Engineer, Payments

Job Description Chariot’s engineering hire 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

- **Id**: 204156
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chariot-backend-engineer-payments-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-19T22:05:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-19
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T14:00:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 80
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3804
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Nonprofit, Church & Membership Software

## Company

- **Id**: 17001
- **Name**: Chariot
- **Domain**: givechariot.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chariot>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 71
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0.563
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 114000
- **Max usd**: 224000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1539

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 80

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T07:34:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.186
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 80
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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