Senior Full Stack 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 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 🫵

We’re looking for an exceptionally skilled engineer who thrives at the intersection of product and technology.

In this role, you’ll build and scale the core functionality behind Goodstack’s workplace giving product, helping companies and employees support causes & charities directly through their workflow. If you have a strong engineering background, enjoy building secure, scalable systems, and want to work for a company making a hugely positive societal impact, this could be the perfect role for you.

• Build end-to-end features that power donation & volunteering flows for employees.

• Integrate with payroll, HR, and payment providers to make giving seamless.

• Day to day you will be expected to write code and be involved in planning, product, and delivery.

• Be involved on a highly technical level, helping establish and build best practices regarding technologies used.

• Ensure high code quality through automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.

• Work closely with product, design, and engineering peers.

• Contribute to product strategy through a user-centric, data-driven mindset.

• Participate in architectural decisions that shape the platform.

• Mentor engineers and help grow the team’s technical capabilities.

• 5+ years in software development.

• Experience with React and Node.js, and TypeScript (or JavaScript).

• Strong understanding of databases, particularly PostgreSQL.

• Familiarity with monitoring systems, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.

• Experience with frontend optimisation.

• A product-driven mindset.

• Working on a large or complex production codebase, developing secure, scalable, resilient systems.

• Contributing towards product thinking.

• A formal software engineering degree is very much welcome but not required.

• Know your teammates well and feel comfortable in your new surroundings.

• You’ve shipped features that directly impact our Workplace Giving product.

• You’re mostly ramped on the product, processes, and workflows.

• You will have found the free sock merch in the office.

• Working in a startup environment.

• Domain-Driven Development.

• Active volunteer in your preferred charity.

• Tea drinking 🫖.

💰 Salary reviews and share options becoming an integral part of our growth and share in the company's success
💝 Goodstack’s Workplace Giving
⚕️ Vitality Plus - Private health insurance
🌞 £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
🏡 You're always welcome to pop in more often if you enjoy the buzz of being in the office. It's a warm, friendly space right in the heart of London

🙌 … and so much more

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. In this future, the depth and breadth of impact we can make through everyday actions will expand dramatically – benefiting both businesses and the world.

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. Doing this empowers everyone – companies, employees, consumers, and communities – to contribute to positive change and take meaningful action.

Let's do this! 💜

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.

A team that represents the world that we are trying to support is a wiser, more knowledgeable and stronger one. We’re excited for you to bring your experience, yourself and your special lemon twist to Goodstack to propel us forward in striving to create a better world for us all.

Check out our Careers Page for more details!