Senior Backend Engineer, Goodstack
£75-86.3k
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1-5 days a week in office
API-first giving & purpose platform
Open for applications
API-first giving & purpose platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£75-86.3k
+ Share options
1-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To harness technology and power purpose for every organisation worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- Experience developing secure, scalable, resilient systems
- A fundamental understanding of databases - we currently use Postgres
- Experience in monitoring systems, continuous integration and automated testing
- Strong knowledge of and enthusiasm for back-end architectures
- The keen motivation to contribute to a product and vision
- An excellent communicator with a strong drive to see large projects through to completion
- 4+ years of experience building APIs and working with databases
- In-depth knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript
- DevOps (AWS, CI/CD, ECS, Docker, Terraform)
- Being product focused
Desirable
- Working in a startup environment (we value your ability to deal with and adapt to fast-paced decision-making, change and the need to deliver at scale and speed)
- Domain-Driven Development
- Tea drinking 🫖
What the job involves
- Join our startup and make a difference as Senior Backend Engineer
- In this role, you will be part of our Giving Team. This team implements the APIs and user experience to expand the donations platform for our partners
- You will be part of an autonomous, cross-functional product team able to make its own decisions based on the objectives set by the business
- You will report directly to the Engineering Manager
- In return, we'll give you a platform to exercise your creativity and innovate to your heart's content
- Help implement the APIs and user experience to expand the donations platform for our partners
- Be involved on a highly technical level, helping establish and build best practices in terms of technologies used
- Day to day you will be expected to write code and be involved in planning, product, and delivery
- After 3 months, success will look like:
- You will have got to know your team mates well and feel comfortable in your new surroundings
- You will understand the giving product and be starting to make suggestions about its evolution
- Have developed a deep understanding of the platform architecture and continue becoming a subject matter expert, suggesting plans for engineering improvements
- You will have found the free sock merch in the office
Application process
- We usually respond within two weeks
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Following major catalysts such as Covid-19, the Climate Crisis & Ukraine, it is becoming more apparent that aligning brands with purpose is more important than ever. However, the process for businesses to build purpose, donations & doing good into their products is archaic, manual, and inefficient.
Goodstack's API-first platform allows companies to quickly and easily build giving and purpose into what they do. Goodstack achieves this by building cutting-edge technology that takes away the complexities of giving to 8.6m nonprofits in over 185 countries.
Use-cases vary from allowing customers to give at the end of documentaries on their favourite streaming sites, supporting in-kind donations of software products, all the way powering giving on some of the world’s biggest social media platforms.
Goodstack's mission is to power purpose in every company worldwide and to achieve this, it closed a large Series A with General Catalyst at the beginning of 2022. It has offices in the UK, US & Australia and is focused on hiring talent moving forward.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$38.2m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $43.2m
Company benefits
- Automatic Enrolment Into Pension
- 25 days paid leave, plus bank holidays & Birthday leave
- £250 WFH Allowance
- Weekly Lunch and Unlimited Snacks in our London Office
- Goodstack Library: Any book on the company, read the book and provide a review and recommendation to get a new one
- Learning & Development Budget of £1,000
- Paid Sick Leave
- Volunteering Days Off
- Paid Birthday Off
- Cycle-To-Work Scheme
Company values
- Purpose over profit: We consider the actions as individuals and a collective and make decisions to maximise the positive impact on people. This means we act ethically and not at the expense of people
- Lemon twist: Great ideas come to life where being and thinking differently are celebrated - bring on the Lemon Twist!™️ 🍋 It’s the touch that makes us stand out. We embrace uniqueness, empowering everyone who engages with us to feel exceptional
- Candid & Kind: Ideas meritocracy discovered by direct honesty, but with no rudeness or disrespect - life’s too short!
- High speed, high agency: Moving fast to find even more scale. The nonprofit space has been left behind for too long - let’s make it awesome for them
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Henry Ludlam
(Founder)Founder of TeamFirst and S&C Productions LTD. Previous experience providing founder advice and mentorship through Wayra.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Goodstack
Henry Ludlam (CEO)
- As the CEO of Goodstack, I am proud to share our mission of harnessing technology to power purpose in every organisation worldwide. A crucial aspect of our success is our unwavering commitment to cultivating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment that enables our team to thrive
- We take pride in our diverse and growing team representing 16+ nationalities across 5 continents 🌍! Our continued expansion provides us with opportunities to embrace and celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, essential to our success. We actively seek and welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
- Our policies, such as parental leave are designed to help our people balance work and family life, allowing them to prosper in their careers 🪁
- To foster our team's continuous growth, we've allocated a budget for Learning & Development, enabling team members to attend conferences, up-skill, and expand their knowledge with company-sponsored resources 📚
- At Goodstack, we dream big about the positive impact we can create and work relentlessly to deliver donations to purpose-driven organisations globally. We understand the intensity of our mission and prioritise our team's well-being by encouraging mental health breaks without salary deductions ❤️
- To support diverse work preferences, we offer flexible work arrangements, including remote work and a dedicated office space for our London-based employees. Together, we foster a candid & kind workplace where all voices matter, fueling collective growth and global impact
- A team that well represents the world that we are trying to support is a wiser, more knowledgeable and stronger one. We’re excited for you to bring your experience, yourself & special [lemon twist](https://goodstack.io/about) to Goodstack to propel us forward in striving to create a better world for us all.
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