Comment by ianprayvine

10 days ago

Prayvine | Lead Software Engineer (Full-Stack) and Ministry Partner | REMOTE | Non-profit faith + tech startup | https://www.prayvine.org

At Prayvine, we build software for mission workers who feed the hungry, care for the sick, and plant churches around the globe. Our mission is to fuse the power of prayer with the power of technology to facilitate God’s loving work in the world.

Prayvine delivers a secure prayer request communication platform as a cloud service, currently implemented in a multi-tier web application with email notifications. The core technology stack features Go (Golang), HTML/Javascript, PostgreSQL, and nginx running on Linux in hosted Docker containers and using Amazon Web Services (e.g. SES, SNS).

As Prayvine’s Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and implementing the organization’s overall technical strategy. You will develop, test, release, and maintain applications and features to better serve our users. In parallel, you will manage and optimize our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines to ensure high reliability, scalability, and security. As a trusted ministry partner to the founder/CEO, you will have a key voice in shaping the future of our strategy, organization and product.

Full job description and apply here: https://learn.prayvine.org/jobs/lead-software-engineer/

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jzebedee  6 days ago

I'm scratching my head at the "Personal Support-Raising" section. It sounds like you're asking your workers to fund their own salary. How does that work?

  • ianprayvine  4 days ago

    It's a good question, and I'm happy to provide more detail about the Personal Support-Raising requirement. Almost all of Prayvine's users raise their own financial support in order to do their mission/humanitarian work. Typically, this means that they ask their friends, family and faith community to partner with them by providing financial, emotional, and spiritual support for their work.

    In order to build a better product for our users, I believe that it's important to deeply understand the challenges that they face, including support raising and having to be accountable to and communicate well with a team of donors and partners.

    I do not expect the person in this role to raise 100% of their salary. I anticipate about 1 month of focused fundraising per year, and Prayvine would provide whatever amount of compensation is not covered by this fundraising. Because Prayvine is a non-profit organization, donations are tax-deductible and are subject to IRS laws governing donor intent (e.g. donations given to support this role cannot be used for any other purposes).

    I know that this is an unusual requirement for an engineering role, and that the fundraising hurdle can seem daunting or strange. My hope is that for the right person, the ability to make a significant global, humanitarian, and spiritual impact is compelling and attractive enough to outweigh these challenges. I know that it has been for me.

    I'm happy to answer other questions about this, or other aspects of the role. Please feel free to contact me directly at jobs@prayvine.org.

    Cheers, Ian (founder/CEO)