Senior Software Engineer

ABOUT

On May 16, 2016, it became legal for regular people to invest as little as $100 in startups and small businesses. Since then, we have become the largest equity crowdfunding platform. We've helped hundreds of startups and small businesses – including flying cars, space rockets, breweries, Hollywood studios, and potential Ebola cures – raise millions of dollars.

We're a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to revitalize capitalism and keep the American dream alive. GDP growth is slowing. Wealth inequality is increasing. Entrepreneurship is dying across America; falling from 10.6% to 3.6% among those under 30 since 1989. We're reversing these trends by funding more deserving businesses across all of America, not solely tech startups in Silicon Valley.

Want to help? Join us! We're a team of founder types: enjoy autonomy, responsibility, the opportunity to learn, and no red tape. Just make it happen.

Wefunder's story: here Our Public Benefit Corp mission here

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

ABOUT the role

We’re looking for engineers who can help us wrangle complex systems and delight users along the way. As a Wefunder engineer, you'll have a tremendous amount of influence, ability to make a huge impact, and be expected to work on a little of everything. There's no red tape. It's a small team, and we move fast.

Some example projects:

We're a full stack startup. Because of our need to control the user experience and keep our unit costs low, we're very vertically integrated. Some examples of projects you could be working on include...

Fun banking software. We’ve built our own money management tools to handle $70M investments from 85k transactions. Securities regulations add extra fun.
Our own version of Mattermark. We'll have thousands of companies fundraising on Wefunder, and we'll need algorithms to identify and curate the best ones.
Tools for founders, e.g. built-in analytics. Our business grows whenever we make fundraising easier for founders. Why make them integrate Google Analytics when we can provide those insights by default?

Location:

Wefunder HQ is in San Francisco. Given the pandemic, we're all working from home right now. When it is safe to do so, the SF office will reopen. We will generally prefer candidates who live in the SF Bay Area or want to relocate, but we're also open to fully-remote candidates who have a proven track record of working remotely effectively.

Benefits:

Market-rate salaries and stock options.
Unlimited vacation days (mandatory 3 weeks off).
Medical, dental, & vision insurance.
401(k) with company match.
All-expense paid Wefunder vacation. We’ve taken three train trips across the country.
Equipment of your choice.
Lots of free food and drinks.
Reimbursement for classes and conferences.
Invites to S'more Club :)

ABOUT you

What we're looking for:

Experience working with complexity. Good code design in the right places is one of the best levers you have as an engineer. But bad design in the wrong places… ouch.
Ability to deal with the chaos and ambiguity of a startup. Things change, surprises happen. There will be uncertainties in and out of our control. Our job is to ship product and keep the money flowing.
Attention to detail. You can’t build a great product without being good about the details, whether it's behind the scenes or in the user’s face. We value UX and will go the extra mile to make our product easy, which usually makes implementation harder.
You're excited to participate in code reviews for learning and ensuring code quality. You should be able to provide constructive feedback to your teammates — and receive it well.
You love to provide mentorship and help their teammates grow.

Technical requirements:

Expert in a web development toolset. We’re a Rails shop, but deep expertise in a web development framework speaks louder than rough familiarity with our preferred toolset.
Expert in Javascript/CSS and experience with a framework like React. We’re in the process of migrating our UI to React.
Experience with a relational SQL database. We use Postgres.
Understanding of accessibility, SEO, responsive design, and website performance.

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