Chief Engineer

EARN As the nation’s leading microsavings provider, EARN is a nonprofit that gives families the tools to build wealth and achieve life-changing goals such as saving for emergencies, college, buying a first home, or starting a small business. Since 2001, we have helped tens of thousands of low-wage families through innovative financial products including matched savings accounts, checking accounts for the unbanked, and financial coaching.

We are looking for a talented Chief Engineer with excellent problem solving skills to design, develop and deploy our Web applications. The candidate will be a self-starter who can work independently in a highly demanding, rapidly changing and growing organization. EARN uses agile methods and best-of-breed online tools. We have a desire for continuous innovation, and are open to new technology and using new techniques and methodologies to solve problem with a great social need.

• Architect, design and develop EARN’s web applications.
• Own the technology stack for EARN’s applications.
• Provide technology leadership to the engineering team.
• Manage the operations of EARN Web sites.
• Provide technology roadmap and plan future product releases in cooperation with product management.
• Manage EARN technology vendors and external contractors.
• Communicate the status of technology projects to stakeholders and management.
• Recruit the necessary talent to achieve EARN’s technology goals.
• Stay current on emerging technologies so as to understand how to apply them to EARN’s mission.

• Has led the development of a Cloud based Web/Mobile application.
• Proficient in Python web frameworks such as Pylons, Flask, or Django.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure (we use AWS).
• A working knowledge of Git.
• Ability to write maintainable code with extensive test coverage, and to work in a continuous integration and deployment environment.
• Knowledge of HTML 5/CSS/JavaScript is required.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs (and building them too!).
• Experience with deployment and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible, Puppet, etc.) in cloud-based environments.
• Good oral and written communications.
• A willingness to learn and use new technologies.