**Job Description**
Chariot’s frontend engineering hire will lead the evolution of our product and technology strategy, along with building a growing team of software engineers. You will work closely with the Chief Product Officer and other 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. On our team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to apply creative solutions to architect, design, and implement beautiful user experiences to fulfill our mission of helping nonprofits around the world.
- Manage and build out the frontend web applications and components that comprise the use-facing Chariot product.
- Contribute to the architecture of our frontend applications and define best practices.
- Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies.
- Improve monitoring and alerting capabilities for us to better understand our user behaviors and iterate on our product.
- Collaborate closely with CPO on UX/UI and be able to translate Figma mockups into pixel-perfect implementations.
- 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 You**
- 3+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
- 2+ years of relevant work experience building beautiful applications on the web.
- 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 modern frontend tech stacks including TypeScript, React, Vue.js, TailwindCSS, and Next.js.
- Experience with design tools (Figma).
- 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 using AI tools to accelerate testing, QA, and product evaluation is a plus
- Familiar with Go and Service Oriented Architecture is a plus
## 📚 **What you’ll get from Chariot**
At 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. Chariot is here to change that.
- **Traction.** Annualizing over $1.8B in payment volume through Chariot. Tens of thousands of nonprofits already onboarded including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and University of Pennsylvania.
- **Impact:** That money services nonprofits working in homelessness, health, education, the environment, and so much more.
- **Market opportunity:** Billion dollar revenue opportunity. Fintech company operating in an untapped $600B market
- **The Team.** \>30% of Charioteers are former founders. NYC office, in-person Monday through Thursday, WFH Friday. The [public handbook](https://chariot-1.gitbook.io/public-employee-handbook) shows how we operate.
## ❤️ **Employee Benefits**
- 🏥 **Healthcare:** Comprehensive healthcare, including options that are 100% covered by Chariot for you
- 🌴 **Time-Off:** 18 days PTO and 13 holidays - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge
- 👶 **Parental Leave:** 100% paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for primary caregivers
- 🍽️ **Team Lunches:** Weekly team lunches
- 🌯 **Dinner on Chariot:** Free dinner every day at office past 8pm
- 🎉 **Team Events:** Monthly team building events
- 💎 **Employee-friendly equity:** 2 year exercise window and double-trigger acceleration
- 😎 **Company Retreats:** To get away - we all convene 2-3x / year company retreats
- 🎁 **Matching Gifts:** Matching DAFs and daily charitable giving through [GoodToday](https://goodtoday.org/)
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
