We are the small but fast-growing product team at Moneythink, a tech nonprofit working to transform financial outcomes for low-to-moderate income young people. We’re achieving this goal by actually changing money behavior through compelling mobile apps that help our users form great habits. We already have a national network of college mentors that use our app hand-in-hand with a financial curriculum, but are also building toward the even broader future of our organization: deploying our apps to more age groups, and in more communities, through universities and other nonprofit organizations.
We’re looking for a senior-level, generalist Software Engineer who values our mission, empathizes with our users, and most importantly, wants to craft great things. We use Agile practices and test-driven development, partially because it just works better, but also because kids won’t tolerate buggy, slow apps at all. As a mission-driven organization that achieves thatmission through software, we have to build the best we can, and we strive to improve all the time.
Day-to-day, you might work on:
Developing a prototype app in React after a brainstorm session with our lead engineer, product manager, and designer
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Creating a dashboard on a spare Mac Mini and monitor so that we can see live student posts on our app, MoneythinkMobile, at a glance
Pairing on a new feature, assisting your fellow engineers to architect well-tested solutions
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Learning a new framework or language
Administering an existing app on AWS, or authoring a new Docker container for a new backend service for the application you’re building
As for our company, we shoot for “just enough” structure, which is Agile-based: you won’t spend an entire afternoon in an IPM, but we will point stories out quickly once a week and perform retrospectives. You’ll be given enough space to work (we’re located in a hard-working but fun co-working space), with access to whiteboards, phone booths, and meeting rooms, but we are also flexible on partial remote work. Everything else you might need is almost certainly checked off for you: Healthcare, dental, vision, and transit benefits are available and super easy to set up.
We have a slew of awesome national nonprofit partners, and a well-connected donor network in the financial industry. And we’re well-funded, with grants from international financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase, American Express, and Citi. Our CEO and Co-Founder, Ted Gonder, also recently served on the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans.
You can read our full job description athttps://moneythink.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hgzn.
You might notice two things about this posting. First, that we don’t provide equity – as a nonprofit, we simply can’t. Second, we’re not passing the Joel Test yet – we’re working hard on closing out that last item, but we feel that you deserve our honesty.
