Job Description
Title: Manager, Software Engineering – Classy
Location: Remote
JobDescription:
Classy, an affiliate of GoFundMe, is a Public Benefit Corporation and giving platform that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Classy’s platform provides powerful and intuitive fundraising tools to convert and retain donors. Since 2011, Classy has helped nonprofits mobilize and empower the world for good by helping them raise over $5 billion. Classy also hosts the Collaborative conference and the Classy Awards to spotlight the innovative work nonprofits are implementing around the globe. For more information, visit www.classy.org.
About the role:
Classy’s Product Technology team is hiring a Senior Software Development Manager to lead a team of engineers to build and maintain our fundraising products, analytics platform, and visualization tools. The ideal candidate is comfortable with people management and experienced with multiple front end frameworks and solid understanding of best practices. We want to talk to you if you can see beyond the donation experience and love transforming designs and mockups into highly-scalable, fault-tolerant, and seamless user experiences.
What youll accomplish:
- Partner with senior management to own and drive core business initiatives.
- Drive the strategy and roll-out of our Foundations roadmap.
- Evaluate technical solutions that contribute to the exciting growth phase of the company.
- Manage and coach engineers to become proficient developers using best software development practices and processes.
- Analyze, design, and develop software that delivers clean, maintainable code within a large, complex, and established code base.
- Learn and grow your skills by working collaboratively with experienced and engaged developers to design new features and re-architect existing ones
What you bring (Required):
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 4+ years directly managing engineers at any level (new graduates to leads), including distributed teams
- Direct responsibility for delivering features on a defined roadmap
- 6+ years of professional software development experience with server-side, web-based technologies (full stack preferred)
- 3+ years of experience developing web-based applications in an AWS infrastructure
- Excellent understanding of distributed software architecture with experience debugging distributed systems with high data loads.
- Advanced proficiency with Javascript Frameworks – React, Angular, and server side backends in Node.js, PHP, and Linux.
- Familiarity with GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, SNS).
- Ability to understand product requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
- Proficiency in schema design in relational or NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB).
- An innate sense of quality, and sharp engineering skills with strong computer science fundamentals.
What would be awesome to have (Preferred):
- Experience with refactoring complex single page apps and/or migrating from one framework to another (i.e. Angular > React)
- Experience building PCI compliant systemsBulk of experience working with Atlassian products (Jira and Bitbucket)