Grapevine - Lead Engineer (Python)

About Grapevine:

Powers the Giving Circle movement. We help people come together to connect, pool their donations and collaborate to make larger collective grants to nonprofits. Since our launch in 2020, we have moved over $54M+ in donations to more than 8k+ nonprofits across the country from 96k+ Giving Circle members.

We’re the Giving Circle platform partner to companies and foundations like the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Nextdoor Foundation, Newman’s Own Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Chobani, and more. If you’ve never heard of a Giving Circle before, they’re considered to be the fastest-growing form of philanthropy today according to Axios. We have top tier funders supporting our mission, including Notation Capital, PJC, Ulu Ventures, Alex Chung (founder of Giphy), and David Heath (founder of Bombas).

Who we are looking for:

We’re looking for an experienced full-stack engineer with strong technical chops, experience in engineering team leadership, and a desire to work proactively and responsibly on a project with high impact. As an example, on an average day you might work on a new feature to improve user's messaging through the site, optimize SQL queries to improve a report export performance, or integrate our system with a new API to expand functionality. You will be working with two other full stack engineers, a product leader and designer. As a small team, we are leaning into AI to improve velocity and quality and are seeking someone like-minded who will enthusiastically join us in that approach and even bring more ideas to the table for how we can further leverage AI tools.

Our values focus on openness, intentionality, collaboration, and spiritedness. We are a high-performing team driven by the goal of making a difference every day. Join us if you're innovative, energetic, and committed to socially impactful work.

About the role:

This is an opportunity for an excellent engineer who wants to serve in a leadership role on the team, setting the standard for code quality and helping make sure team members are productive and not blocked. Our team works in weekly sprints, with a high level of autonomy for each member of the team for which tasks to work on and how to implement them. Our team is remote, with the engineers all currently in Argentina, and all team members have 10+ years of professional experience. Our stack is Postgres / Python / Django / Angular, all continuously deployed on Heroku.

You’ll work closely with our founding team to define technical strategy and help set the standard and pace for the engineering team. We are very collaborative, with daily coworking sessions via Slack Huddles in addition to our weekly planning sessions and standups, and we frequently screen share work in progress and discuss design decisions as a team.

This is an opportunity to join a growing start-up with a positive mission at its early stages and help lay the groundwork for the future of our growing community and its impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of the technology platform

• Help define the technical strategy for the company

• Provide mentorship to engineers, with a genuine interest in helping them reach their goals

• Work with the team to make projections and guide product roadmap based on engineering capacity

• Ensure high level of code quality and a good code review culture within the team

• Help balance moving quickly with delivering quality

• Monitor and improve app performance over time

• Write code every day

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of work experience, with 1+ years as a lead or manager

• Strong communication and leadership skills

• Focus on the details and enjoy getting the little things right

• Strong understanding of software development best practices

• Passion for using technology to create positive change in the world

• Willingness to work hard, take ownership and responsibility for scope of work

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• Experience as a team leader, both directing engineers and setting quality standards, but also executing and getting deep into the work

Extra Credit:

• Experience working on or leading a virtual team

• Experience in philanthropy (as a nonprofit professional, at a foundation, or at a company serving nonprofits or donors)

• Experience in fintech or consumer tech

What’s in it for you?

• In addition to a terrific team of people, a supportive structure, and interesting technical problems, we offer exciting growth opportunities and the ability to make a positive difference in the world.

What you’re looking for:

• A place to grow and learn

• The opportunity to do a great job at a wide variety of tasks

• A place to set the standard for a high quality engineering team

• A group of good people doing great things