Software Engineer

Job Description

Posted 2 months ago

At Fluxx, our mission is to be the leading collaborative grantmaking platform that amplifies impact in our global communities. We’re a mission-driven business making an impact in philanthropy, and our cloud platform enables the end-to-end grantmaking process for funders and doers. We volunteer, serve our community, and we’re committed to building a team of outstanding individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We are looking for the best talent to continue to drive our mission forward.

In the role of Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in building high-quality, innovative, and performant software that aligns with industry standards and best practices.

This is a full-time exempt and remote position. Candidates must be located in the United States.

What you’ll be doing:

Provide technical leadership, bringing best engineering practices to all phases of large-scale engineering initiatives

Work cross-functionally with engineers, designers, QA, and product managers

Design and execute new user-facing features and applications

Building test automation to ensure quality release after release

Lead initiatives to refactor, re-engineer, and reimagine our platform

Produce high-quality software that is well designed, fully unit tested and passes peer code review

Deliver projects with high quality and at a rapid cadence

What you bring to the team:

Experience as a full-stack engineer (frontend + backend development).

At least 4 years of experience building, fixing, and scaling web apps

Desire to learn and mentor

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Proficiency with SQL and Unix

A deep foundation in computer science with a strong understanding of data structures, and algorithms

Dedication to writing maintainable, fast, beautiful code including documentation

An ability to learn and adapt quickly

You’ll have a better chance of success given experience with:

Large refactoring/re-engineering projects

Working in at least some of our stack:

Ruby, Rails

MySQL

Elasticsearch

jQuery, React

Redis, Resque

Java

Play

Devops and AWS

RESTful APIs

About Fluxx:

At Fluxx, we’re looking for people with grit and passion about Fluxx’s vision to become THE company that changes Philanthropy forever. We encourage you to apply - even if your experience doesn’t exactly match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out especially if your career path is unique.

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