Change Heroes is building the world’s largest community of people taking action through giving, with a proprietary fundraising system of direct video outreach, animated storytelling, and microgifts that revolutionizes crowdfunding (think: Ice Bucket Challenge videos + Kickstarter campaigns without the guesswork + new United Way-style employee giving).
Change Heroes has raised over $2.3M to date, working with groups like the United Nations Foundation, CARE USA, and Free the Children, plus corporate social responsibility campaigns with Disney, Royal Bank of Canada, and Morgan Stanley.
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What we’re looking for
- Engineering excellence - proven track record of solving tough problems and building technology powered products in a variety of contexts.
- Hiring prowess. You’re a strong interviewer who constantly raises the bar for excellence. You believe that what seems amazing one day becomes the norm the next day, and that each new hire should significantly improve the team.
- Superior teaching skills. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success. Through mentoring, teaching, and reviewing, you help other engineers make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
- Passion and energy. Because you love what you do, you bring infectious enthusiasm to all your endeavors. You always perform at your absolute best and see new challenges as an opportunity to contribute, make an impact, and grow.
Desired Skills and Experiences
You’re Great At:
- Building and shipping high-performance, large-scale, web and mobile apps
- Java, Node.js, MySQL (or other relational databases)
- Creating, working on, and deploying scalable solutions which can handle high volumes of data (millions of transactions) on cloud-based environments (AWS, S3, EC2, RDS, CloudFront)
- Ensuring analytics and unit tests are a part of every shipped feature, and driving your decisions with the backing of solid data
- Mentoring other developers and helping everyone around you be a better team player
- Making millions of users happy by delivering high quality software products
- Open source contributions or have personal projects you’ve shipped successfully
- Designing and building robust REST APIs
- Automation, including writing unit and integration tests
- Working with and integrating 3rd party REST APIs (bonus is you’ve worked with Facebook, Stripe, Salesforce, Marketo, Twillio APIs)
Bonus:
- You have a sizeable portfolio of “Difficult problems...solved”
- You breathe the values of collective and individual ownership
- You have a passion and desire to ship things you design and build
- You love to measure and use data to make decisions and solve problems
- You have shipped a scalable mobile app (iOS, Android)
- You have contributed to open source projects
Perks
- $90-150k Salary, DOE
- Above average Medical, Dental and Vision package
- Stock Option plans
- 3 weeks vacation
- Discounts or free perks from companies such as Yyoga and the Float House
- An amazing culture with daily ping pong games, company potlucks, and employee sports teams
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