Backend Developer (Volunteer Role)

Walton, New York
DoinGud
The DoinGud community is the brainchild of Manuel Gonzalez Alzuru, who was infected with COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic. Upon returning home to Barcelona, he found he was unable to get help even though there were people who wanted to provide it. Inspired by so many coming together, Manuel launched the FightPandemics project with one mission in mind to ensure that those who need help could more easily connect with those who had help to offer. Today the community is evolving from a help board to a marketplace that will create the space for artists to engage with their communities and sell their work while contributing to the work of purpose-driven organizations. From that simple desire to enable connections for the greater good, we are now a collective of more than 1100 volunteers.

We are looking for a volunteer who want to join us in our fight against pandemics like COVID-19 and other crises alike.

As a Backend Developer volunteer at DoinGud, you will

• Develop features and improvements to the DoinGud product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Take ownership of the complete lifecycle of a product features from planning to implementation to testing to production.
• Build and operate high-quality infrastructure and services
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity and help scale our infrastructure.

Requirements

Qualifying Skills

• You are passionate about what we are building and you want to contribute and not wait on the sideways.
• You are positive and have a solution-oriented mindset.
• You are a problem solver and enjoy writing robust code
• You have attention to detail with strong communication skills.
• Knowledgable about building full-stack web applications using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript related technologies such as React and Node.js.
• Knowledgable about building APIs that are RESTful.
• Knowledgeable about SQL and NoSQL databases and building efficient data queries and pipelines.
• Knowledgeable about building secure APIs that are not vulnerable to security attacks.
• You know how to use basic Git commands.
• Most importantly, you want to be part of something great that positively impacts society especially in times of crisis.

Super-Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with our stack
  • Backend Fastify, MongoDB, Auth0, Google Maps API.
• Openness to learn new technologies.
• Experience working with Git and Github in teams.
• Experience working with a remote team.
• Open source experience.
• Developer platform/tool industry experience

Benefits

Why Join Us?

• Expand your network. You get to work as a part of a innovative, global and diverse team.
• Be part of a movement. We strive for bold changes and envision to make a big impact. Bring your passion, energy and creativity to participate.
• Learn and grow. You get to continuously learn and develop your skills. You might join us because of your skills in business development, but are able to contribute to any team’s work if you’d like.
• Be free. You have the freedom to set the hours you are able to work every week
• Do good. It is a scientific fact that volunteering for a good cause improves your well being.

This position is strictly ‘volunteer‘ and is an unpaid position.