Backend Engineer

Summary

Join CareerVillage.org, an award-winning global tech nonprofit, as a Backend Software Engineer. We're rapidly growing and expanding our service offerings, focusing on democratizing access to career information and advice for underrepresented people. You'll contribute to our flagship crowdsourcing platform and a new AI Career Coach product. This full-time, exempt position reports to the Director of Engineering and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. We are a remote-first organization with options for hybrid work in NYC. The ideal candidate will have a mission-driven mindset and strong technical skills.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience developing world-class digital products, with a particular focus on backend systems, interacting with data stores, APIs, deployment pipelines, and managing cloud services
• Experience with Python and SQL
• Experience with some combination of the following: Django, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Javascript

Responsibilities

• Write code using modern frameworks with a special focus on backend services and API development
• Design schema across a range of storage technologies including SQL, NoSQL, and Vector databases
• Help maintain and improve deployment and integration testing pipelines
• Collaborate with product designers, product managers, and frontend engineers to discuss the design, experience, and functionality of our products
• Draft documentation outlining technical approaches to complex problems and discussing their merits with colleagues
• Review code from team members, considering readability, maintainability, performance, and testability
• Write automated unit tests to confirm the functionality of existing products before and after new feature development
• Participate in design reviews of other engineers’ proposals for solutions to complex problems
• Help investigate bug reports and engineering requests from end users and internal stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• A mission-driven mindset and commitment to developing transformational social impact technology
• Openness to giving and receiving constructive feedback; when you see something that can be improved, you act on it
• The ability to build consensus on sophisticated issues, through your empathy, internal credibility and thoughtfulness
• A professional attitude, strong communication skills, and reliability
• Ability to thrive in a team of dedicated high performers
• A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice through continued learning, consistently practicing inclusive behaviors, and actively countering bias

Benefits

• Starting salary of $120,000-$150,000
• Healthcare and dental benefits
• 401K matching
• $1,500 Professional Development budget
• Very generous vacation policy
• An opportunity to improve real lives, solve hard problems, and change the world
• A fantastic and supportive organizational culture