We’re Hiring!

Fullstack Developer (Contract-to-Hire, REMOTE)

Impact Upgrade focuses on nonprofits and mission-driven businesses that serve people. We’re looking for a new team member to position as a fullstack developer, working on both client projects and internal products. We do have specialties and tools we often reach for, but we strive to be flexible generalists. So although there are a few areas that you need to have in your background, we otherwise bend over backwards to keep things simple.

Must-haves:

• Development experience with Django/Python.
• Expertise with vanilla Javascript and jQuery, HTML, and CSS.
• Exposure to Bootstrap (we typically use Material Design for Bootstrap).
• An emphasis on mobile-first, responsive design with digital accessibility as a high priority.
• Experience with any RDBMS (we’re typically on postgres or mysql/mariadb).
• Experience with API integration and automation.
• A consultant’s mindset. Assume nothing you find has to be the way it is. Ability to keep eyes open for better/easier/simpler/cheaper ways of doing things, recommend them, and oversee improvements.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous and dynamic environments.
• Understand that some projects demand enterprise/hardened development, others a looser get-it-done approach, and others a mix — and know when each is appropriate.
• Previous experience as a remote team member.
• Fun, easy going, and service-centered heart. Our primary focus is serving missions as well as helping organizations’ staff in any tech-centric way we can.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working both on client projects as a consultant as well as direct product development.
• Exposure to other full-stack ecosystems. PHP, Ruby on Rails, and others periodically come up.
• Exposure to Stripe and/or Square.
• Exposure to WordPress.

If that describes you, we’d love to chat and move quickly! Email brett@impactupgrade.com with an intro and resume.

Nitty-gritty details:

• Once full-time:
  • 4 day work weeks! We work around 9 hours a day, Mon-Thu. Fill your bucket on Fri.
  • Paid holidays, Christmas-week break, and 4 weeks PTO.
  • 401(k) with 3% match.
  • Monthly wellness reimbursement.
  • Bi-annual profit sharing bonuses (eligible after 6 months).
  • Transparently, we’re not currently at a size where group insurance is in the cards. But, we’d love to chat about some alternate ideas.

Backend Software Engineer (Contract-to-Hire, REMOTE)

Impact Upgrade focuses on nonprofits and mission-driven businesses that serve people. We’re looking for an individual to act as a linchpin for our backend software engineering services and suite of products. Serve our clients, help define best practices, design architecture, and remain hands-on as a lead developer. If you’re looking for a way to provide massive, real-world impact through your technical career, we’d love to talk.

We do have specialties and tools we often reach for, but we strive to be flexible generalists. So although there are a few areas that you need to have in your background, we don’t expect you to have commanding experience with everything. More valuable to us is your ability to quickly learn and work on a variety of stacks and efforts.

Must-haves:

• Development experience within a variety of distributed system and web platform arenas.
• Primarily a backend focus, but fullstack/frontend familiarity is helpful.
• Experience with API integration and automation.
• Overall generalist, but previous experience with the following is extremely desirable to hit the ground running with current projects and products:
  • Java/Kotlin + typical JVM frameworks
  • Python + Django/Flask
• Experience with any RDBMS (we’re typically on postgres or mysql/mariadb).
• An eye for architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Exposure to building reusable libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with in-depth functional and integration testing.
• A consultant’s mindset. Assume nothing you find has to be the way it is. Ability to keep eyes open for better/easier/simpler/cheaper ways of doing things, recommend them, and oversee improvements.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous and dynamic environments.
• Understand that some projects demand enterprise/hardened development, others a looser get-it-done approach, and others a mix — and know when each is appropriate.
• Previous experience as a remote team member.
• Fun, easy going, and service-centered heart. Our primary focus is serving missions as well as helping organizations’ staff in any tech-centric way we can.

Nice-to-haves:

• Exposure to AWS, Heroku, Digital Ocean, cloud storage, etc.
• Exposure to Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, Salesforce, HubSpot, WordPress, MailChimp, QuickBooks, Zapier, or other widely used platforms in the nonprofit and people-serving spaces.
• Experience with software instrumentation and monitoring (ex: New Relic, DataDog, logging platforms, etc).
• A basic understanding of security/privacy laws like GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, HIPAA, CAN-SPAM, etc.

If that describes you, we’d love to chat and move quickly! Email brett@impactupgrade.com with an intro and resume.

Nitty-gritty details:

• Individual, direct-hire, or direct-contract only. No agencies or groups.
• Short-term, start on a part-time contract.
• Long-term, open to discussing both FTE and contract options.
• We’re fully-remote!
• Once full-time:
  • 4 day work weeks! We work around 9 hours a day, Mon-Thu. Fill your bucket on Fri.
  • Paid holidays, Christmas-week break, and 4 weeks PTO.
  • 401(k) with 3% match.
  • Monthly wellness reimbursement.
  • Bi-annual profit sharing bonuses (eligible after 6 months).
  • Transparently, we’re not currently at a size where group insurance is in the cards. But, we’d love to chat about some alternate ideas.