Software Developer

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 provide the simplest path to impact for successful entrepreneurs by offering end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a worldwide network of experts. In short, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our 2,100+ members include the founders and leaders of companies like Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.

About the Role

We're looking for a UK or US (East Coast)-based Software Developer to join our Tech team. The team provides the back-office processing backbone for Founders Pledge, allowing members to maximize their giving and building for future scalability.

You'll work closely with project managers to bring solutions to life, taking ideas and challenges and finding the best solutions. Managed by Harry, the Director of Technology, you'll focus on a new greenfield project to replace older legacy internal systems.

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

What You'll Do

• Work with the Director of Technology to build out a new system and new features.
• Help business analysts bring their ideas to life, advising on the best way to achieve goals and allowing them to make optimal product decisions.
• Participate in the definition and delivery of work within the team.
• Write and review technical design documentation.
• Proactively plan and prioritize issues with the team and fix them.
• Contribute to team ideas and solutions, challenging each other to find the best way forward.
• 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.

What We're Looking For

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-focused mindset. When faced with a challenge, you're excited to proactively think through and find multiple solutions, leading the best way forward.

Ideally, we are looking for someone who has:

• Professional software development experience with a modern frontend framework, ideally Nuxt/Vue and Typescript.
• Experience producing complex work, such as code changes across the entire tech-stack or being responsible for large UI projects.
• Typescript/Javascript skills.
• HTML & CSS skills.
• Experience working in an Agile team environment.
• Strong testing experience.
• Comfortable making decisions when relying on incomplete data sets.

Nice to have skills include: Ruby-on-Rails, Salesforce/Restforce experience, GraphQL, Rest APIs, Postgresql, Tailwind, Vitest, and RSpec.

Location and Travel Requirements

• This role is remote, based in the UK or US (East Coast). A desk in a co-working space can be arranged if desired.
• The global team and individual teams will each meet in person once per year.

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 bring the global team together once per year for a global offsite. This is a week of collaborative learning, ideas generation and socialising. In addition to this, each team has the opportunity to meet together at least 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.