Software Engineer

ABOUT US:

At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good. Since launching in 2015, we’ve raised over $10 billion for the most impactful social causes. We offer the simplest path to impact for successful entrepreneurs, providing end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a worldwide network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our 2000+ members include the people behind industry-leading companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We’re now looking for a Software Developer to join our Tech team. The team provides the back-office processing backbone for Founders Pledge, allowing our members to maximise their giving to high-impact causes, and building for future scalability. We have a strong product-first approach to development and in this role you’ll work closely with project managers to bring solutions to life, taking ideas and challenges and finding the best solutions. Reporting to our Director of Technology you’ll focus your efforts on a new greenfield project working on replacing some older legacy internal systems.

Our tech stack is predominantly PostgreSQL, a Ruby-on-Rails api and a Nuxt3 front end.

In your role as Software Developer, you’ll:

• Work on building out our new system, working on new features along with the Director of Technology.
• Help business analysts to bring their ideas to life, advising on the best way to achieve goals and allowing them to make the optimal product decisions. You’ll consider the challenges the business analyst is trying to solve and present new solutions to achieve mutual goals.
• Participate in the definition and delivery of work/projects within the team.
• Write and review technical design documentation.
• Proactively plan and prioritise issues with the team and fix them.
• Contribute to team ideas and solutions, challenging each other to find the best way forward to meet our objectives.
• Provide constructive feedback on others’ work through code or technical design document reviews.

Current projects you’ll be involved in:

• Our greenfield Internal Grant Processing system
• Improving the Data Hub (our data warehouse and main reporting engine).
• Expanding our monitoring and reporting tools.

ABOUT YOU:

We’re looking for someone with both experience using a modern front-end language and Ruby-on-Rails, with a can-do, creative and solutions-focussed mindset. When faced with a challenge, you’re excited to proactively think through and find multiple solutions, leading the best way forward. You’ll be excited to expand your skill set in front-end frameworks.

We’re looking for:

• Professional software development experience with a modern frontend framework, ideally in Nuxt/Vue and Typescript.
• Experience producing complex work - this might look like experience of code changes across the entire tech-stack, using multiple different APIs to produce a single data set, making large non-breaking changes, or being responsible for large UI projects.
• Typescript/Javascript skills.
• HTML & CSS skills.
• Experience working in an Agile team environment.
• Strong testing experience.
• Somebody who is comfortable making decisions or testing ideas when relying on incomplete data sets/when we don’t have a huge amount of data to support decisions.

Nice to have skills:

• Ruby-on-Rails
• Salesforce/Restforce experience
• GraphQL
• Rest API’s
• Postgresql
• Tailwind
• Vitest
• RSpec

WHY WORK WITH US?

You can find more about the benefits we offer here, but what makes us truly special is both our mission and our people. We’re a diverse team, from both charitable and commercial backgrounds, who believe that amazing things can happen when we tackle problems together. We offer a flat structure and an opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy.

We ask that applicants to this role are based within the UK. Although we have a small HQ in London, there’s no expectation for you to attend on a regular basis. At the same time, if you think you’d benefit from a desk in a co-working space close to your home, this can be arranged. Otherwise, you just need a great home wifi connection and we’ll provide you with everything else you need to be successful in your role.

On top of this, we’ll bring the global team together once per year and individual teams will meet to work together once per year!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge. We seek people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.