About the role
We are looking for a Backend / Full Stack Engineer with 2+ years of experience to join an engineering team building financial infrastructure that already processes billions of dollars in nonprofit payments. You'll own systems end to end – from architecture to shipping – working directly with founders and leadership with zero layers in between. This is a high-autonomy role where your judgment and opinions directly shape what gets built, not just how. We need engineers who have strong technical convictions, communicate clearly, and thrive in a fast-moving environment where whiteboarding, debating, and shipping are the norm.
What you will be doing
- Building and owning backend server applications and components that power Chariot's payment platform end to end – from design through production
- Contributing to architecture decisions across APIs, backend systems, and infrastructure – helping define team standards and best practices
- Collaborating directly with founders, product, and engineering through whiteboarding sessions and technical debates – strong opinions loosely held
- Improving real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities to better understand user behavior and iterate on the product
- Taking on a wide range of engineering projects across the platform – the team intentionally avoids siloed product lines so you'll work across the full stack
About Chariot
Chariot is a fintech company building financial infrastructure for the $326 billion donor-advised fund (DAF) market, the fastest-growing segment of philanthropy. Our gift processing platform is an end-to-end solution for processing DAF payments, including workplace giving. It combines a financial account with AI-powered data transformation to solve a fast-growing operational challenge that costs the 1.4 million nonprofits and thousands of grantmakers in the U.S. millions of hours annually.DAFpay by Chariot, named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025, is the industry’s first DAF payment option. It is embedded on over 100,000 nonprofits’ donation forms including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and University of Pennsylvania.Backed by Maveron, Y Combinator, SV Angel, and Spark Capital, our team is committed to empowering nonprofits to achieve their visions.*Chariot is a financial technology company, not a bank. Chariot Deposit Accounts are provided by Column N.A., Member FDIC.
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Job details
Salary
$180,000 - $230,000
Location
New York, United States
Experience
2+ years
Funding
Total raised
$15.4M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.