Remote Senior Software Engineer

About Fluxx:

At Fluxx our mission is to be the leading collaborative grantmaking platform in our global communities. We believe in building technology that drives positive impact in our world. Our platform helps foundations and agencies streamline the grantmaking process, making it easier to get funding to those that need it to support their mission. We are driven to help facilitate change through our solutions that automate grantmaking for organizations all over the world.  Over the past decade Fluxx has built a boundary-pushing community of 330+ grantmakers who work with more 150,000 nonprofits worldwide who are responsible for transacting $15.7B in investments last year alone!

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.

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 as 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
• Demonstrable work in at least some of the parts of our stack:
  • Ruby, Rails
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • jQuery, React
  • Redis, Resque
  • Play
  • Devops and AWS
  • RESTful APIs

Salary:

The expected annual base salary for this role is $149,000- $170,000. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on, but not limited to (a) location; (b) individual candidate skills and qualifications; and © individual candidate experience.

Fluxx is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We take a market-based approach to pay which may vary depending on your location. Locations are categorized into one of three zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic location and our compensation philosophy.

Benefits:

Fluxx offers the following benefits for the position subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical, dental, and vision insurance; Flexible time off; Paid sick leave; 12 weeks of fully-paid parental leave; Annual learning and development stipend; Internet stipend; One-time home office set-up stipend; 401(k) retirement plan with company match. This position is also eligible for incentive stock options, subject to the terms of Fluxx’s applicable stock plans.

More About Fluxx:

We are a people-first and inclusive workplace committed to continuous learning. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.