Frontend Engineer

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 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