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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.\nManage and build out the backend server applications and components that comprise the Chariot platform that power our various product offerings.\n\nContribute to the architecture and design of our APIs, backend systems, and applications and help define team standards and best practices.\n\nGenerate ideas for new initiatives and technologies.\n\nImprove real-time and analytical monitoring and alerting capabilities for us to better understand our user behaviors and iterate on our product.\n\nCommunicate effectively with founders, product managers, and other software developers.\n\nManage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment.\n\nAbout You\n4+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.\n\n2+ years of relevant work experience as a backend application developer building performant and scalable backend systems.\n\nBachelor’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.\n\nBe highly proficient working with Go, Node, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes.\n\nExperience with Postgres (RDBMS), REST APIs, and gRPC.\n\nStrong sense of responsibility; ability to drive a project from inception to completion.\n\nExperience with fintech, payments, and the nonprofit-sector is a plus.\n\nExperience building secure and scalable applications on AWS is a plus.\n\nWhat you’ll get from Chariot\nAt Chariot, we are building modern, end-to-end payment infrastructure making donors' lives easier, and nonprofits' lives better. $600B gets donated to charity each year in the US and the existing technology/infrastructure was still built for our grandparents generation. 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