Senior Backend Engineer

If you’ve been looking to join a fast-growing startup with a bold vision of a world where doing good is baked into everything we do, then you’ve found the right place!

Backed by General Catalyst, the same investors behind Stripe and Airbnb, we’re building something truly extraordinary!

Our Mission

Our mission at Goodstack is to revolutionize how the world does good.

As a Series A social impact startup, we power global change through technology. We enable companies to seamlessly integrate positive impact into what they do through a unified platform while supporting nonprofits in gaining access to cutting-edge technology and finding new funding streams.

Global brands, including Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, HSBC, OpenAI, Atlassian, and Twilio – as well as thousands of nonprofits, including the Red Cross, Cancer Research, and Oxfam – use Goodstack to make a difference.

We are on a rapid growth trajectory. Just in 2024, we facilitated $3 billion in donations to good causes. But this is just the beginning. We want to become the world\’s leading platform that facilitates donations to the most individual nonprofits in the world.

To achieve this, we need incredible people to help us on our journey – we need you.

Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer!

In this role, you will be part of our Payment Operations Team. This team implements APIs and user experiences to expand the payments platform for our partners (internal and external). You will be part of an autonomous, cross-functional product team able to make its own decisions based on the objectives set by the business. You will report directly to the Engineering Manager.

In return, we\’ll give you a platform to exercise your creativity and innovate to your heart\’s content.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, your mission will be to:

• Help implement the APIs and user experience to expand the payments platform for our partners.
• Be involved on a highly technical level, helping establish and build best practices in terms of technologies used.
• Day to day you will be expected to write code and be involved in planning, product, and delivery.

After 3 months, success will look like:

• Knowing your team mates well and feeling comfortable in your new surroundings.
• Understanding the giving product and starting to make suggestions about its evolution.
• Have developed a deep understanding of the platform architecture and continue becoming a subject matter expert, suggesting plans for engineering improvements.
• Will have found the free sock merch in the office.

This role is a perfect match for you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building APIs on top of databases (we use Postgres).
• Designing and developing secure, scalable, resilient, and observable systems.
• Agile development and deploying to production regularly with CI/CD.
• In-depth knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience in monitoring systems, continuous integration, and automated testing.
• Strong knowledge of and enthusiasm for back-end architectures.
• Strong data-driven problem-solving skills.
• Can thrive in the quickly evolving environment of a start-up.
• A bias to action; you consider the short, mid, and long-term solutions and take a pragmatic approach to implementing them.
• The keen motivation to contribute to a product and vision.
• An excellent communicator with a strong drive to see large projects through to completion.
• Some level of DevOps (AWS, CI/CD, ECS, Docker, Terraform).

Bonus if you have knowledge or love of:

• DevOps experience (Docker, AWS, Terraform).
• Knowledge of domain-driven design.

What you can expect upon joining our team

Salary reviews and share options becoming an integral part of our growth and share in the company\’s success.

Goodstack’s Workplace Giving.

£250 Brighten your day annual budget.

£1000 Learning & development annual budget.

Goodstack library.

Tasty Tuesday! Office lunch is on the company.

Slow run club (Wednesdays).

Paid days off to volunteer for non-profit causes.

Paid days to attend conferences.

Paid day off on your birthday!

25 days annual leave, plus paid public holidays.

Paid sick leave.

Paid wellness leave.

Parental leave.

Flexible working hours.

WFH budget upon joining.

Pension.

UK cycle-to-work scheme.

Ecologi Carbon Offsetting.

About us

Since 2017, Goodstack has been at the forefront of creating a future where good will be built into everything we do. From daily commutes to weekend activities or grocery shopping, we envision a world where creating positive change is seamlessly integrated into our everyday lives.

Businesses are expected to deliver on both profit and purpose and those that don’t are falling behind. We’re here to make it easy for any company, anywhere in the world, to integrate good into what they do.

OUR PLEDGE TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

We take pride in our diverse and growing team representing 20+ nationalities across 5 continents. Our continued expansion provides us with opportunities to embrace and celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, essential to our success.

We actively seek and welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.