KivaThe Company
Called the "hottest non-profit on the planet" by FORTUNE magazine and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world's first person-to-person lending marketplace for the poor. In just 5 years, Kiva has raised $250 million from 600k lenders to 600k borrowers in 60 countries. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with an intense focus on alleviating global poverty. Kiva is poised to take its initial success to a whole new level - targeting $1 billion in loans by 2015 and expansion into new areas (e.g. student loans, climate change, etc). Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva's team has 80 smart, passionate, and fun employees and 500+ volunteers. Learn more about Kiva.
The Team:
Kiva Engineering is a rapidly growing team of 20+ motivated engineers. We operate as a "start-up" in that everybody counts, and your contribution has the potential to make a big impact: on Kiva, and on the world at large. We follow a Scrum development process, with 20% of time allocated for engineering innovation.
The Job:
- Build new functionality into the e-commerce side of http://www.kiva.org
- Use the entire LAMP stack, from the front-end to the database.
- Participate in the design & prototyping of new features
You:
- Love building applications for the web (with clean code)
- Embrace test driven development (TDD)
- Passionate about Kiva's mission
- Value collaboration with your teammates; you share what you know with them, and appreciate that their feedback makes your code better too
Experience:
- 3+ years of experience developing consumer-facing web apps, preferably e-commerce applications
- Expertise in both frontend (e.g., CSS, HTML, Javascript, Ajax) and backend (e.g., PHP, Java, C++, databases)
- Education – BSCS/BSEE preferred
- Experience with an Agile software development process - preferably Scrum
Compensation:
- Casual work environment
- Opportunity to join the team of the world's first online personal lending platform
- Base salary with bonus potential, plus a comprehensive benefits package
- Tons of "psychic income" for making the world a better place - priceless!
To Apply
• Send e-mail to jobs@kiva.org including the subject line “Software Engineer - General”
• Sorry, no relocation will be offered for this position
• Due to the high numbers of applicants for this position, we regret that we can only respond to candidates that we would like to interview
