Use Your Powers for Good

Causes.com is a revolutionary tech start-up headquartered in San Francisco and the planet's largest social platform for do-gooders of every stripe. Ready to change the world? Join us.

We’re a for-profit tech company changing the face of online activism and philanthropy by bringing the best of Silicon Valley engineering and product design to the cause community. We think that a lively start-up culture, life-changing issues, and an inspiring mission go hand-in-hand. We believe that people working together can make a difference, and that giving back to your community should be fun and easy.

In addition, we offer highly competitive salaries, and catered lunches and dinners in a great working environment in downtown San Francisco.

Meet the engineering squad.

Causes.com engineers are an elite, close-knit A-Team of big thinkers, night owls, and weekend rock climbers. Every day our programmers take on a series of tech challenges together; walk around the Causes.com office and you’ll see developers pairing together and sharing tips. To unwind, you’ll find them playing ping-pong, enjoying a cold beer or two from the Keg-a-rator, giving quick tech talks, and releasing their own open-source projects. If you’re wildly talented with a desire to do meaningful work, we want to hear from you. Have a look at our current openings:

Front-end Engineer

Is your code so elegant there should be a more elegant way to describe it? Can you make things look amazing in browsers that don’t technically exist, or should have died years ago? Do you have a slightly unhealthy obsession with CSS attribute ordering?

Apply: Email your resume (.txt or .pdf) to jobs@causes.com with Delightful Code in the subject line.

Back-end Engineer

Are you a non-evil genius? Do you enjoy solving hard problems fast and well? When you need a break from coding, do you code something else?

Apply: Email your resume (.txt or .pdf) to jobs@causes.com with Non-Evil Genius in the subject line.

Data Engineer

Are you two sigmas above the mean? Do you appreciate http://xkcd.com/552/ on a deep, fundamental level? Have you ever been tempted to write your own file system/storage engine? Do you like OK Cupid blog posts, but not their lack of rigor?

Apply: Email your resume (.txt or .pdf) to jobs@causes.com with Glowing Patterns in the subject line.

Email Engineer

Can you show mass comm infrastructure who’s boss? Do you troubleshoot from the hip? Are you a spam musubi aficionado?

Apply: Email your resume (.txt or .pdf) to jobs@causes.com with Email MacGyver in the subject line.

Performance Engineer

Could you speed up Google’s multi-millisecond response times? Do you think “performant” should be an adjective in the OED? Is a 1GB L1 cache a good idea or a bad idea?

Apply: Email your resume (.txt or .pdf) to jobs@causes.com with Speed Racer in the subject line.

Systems Engineer

Are STONITH and shebangs your thing? Do you sweat that if you do your job right, you’ll end up with a perpetual motion machine? Can you teach us any new “man page” jokes?

Apply: Email your resume (.txt or .pdf) to jobs@causes.com with Master of Puppets in the subject line.

Database Administrator

Are you utterly reliable? Are you web-scale? Do you recognize the values of NoSQL solutions when they're applicable?

Apply: Email your resume (.txt or .pdf) to jobs@causes.com with Commander Data in the subject line.

Psst…don’t see your position listed? Don’t despair: We've listed a few specific engineering positions here, but we’re always looking for talented folks. If you think you have something to offer, email your resume to jobs@causes.com with Special Ops in the subject line.

More a product whiz? We need you too.

Product Manager

We need stellar communicators who dream big and have years of experience taking a product from concept through launch. Qualified PMs should have a strong CS or other technical background along with a scrappy “get it done” attitude. Can you bounce seamlessly between engineering and design teams? Do you wake up in the morning eager to create feature lists? Can you thrive in a team atmosphere and drive everyone towards a common goal?

Apply: Email your resume to jobs@causes.com with Dream Bigger in the subject line.

Recruiter

Causes.com is looking for an experienced tech recruiter to help us manage the engineer recruiting process from first contact to hire. Are you a well-organized go-getter with an excellent track record placing skilled developers at start-ups? Can you transform job fairs, networking events, and innovative recruiting ideas into a pipeline of qualified candidates? Is "Linked In outreach" your area of expertise?

Apply: Email your resume to jobs@causes.com with Golden Rolodex in the subject line.

Community Manager

We're looking for a community manager to hold our users' hands through the good times and the bad. Great community managers are patient, proactive, and positive. Are you a Zen(desk) master? Do you love having all the answers and finding new ones? Are you a diplomatic yet precise communicator? Like raw almonds? If you answered yes to at least a few of those, are curious about the others, and want to help build a turn-key support system, please let us know.

Apply: Email your resume to jobs@causes.com with How Can I Help? in the subject line.

Community Manager - Community Presence

We're looking for a community manager to take the reins of the Causes blog and social media outlets. Do you tweet? A lot? Love finding and telling great stories? Want to feel the power of a 10 million member fan page? Do people you respect think you're a good writer? Like raw almonds? If you answered yes to at least a few of those, are curious about the others, and want to help people do good, please let us know.

Apply: Email your resume to jobs@causes.com with Yes, Please in the subject line.

Community Intern

Want to get work experience at a fast-paced start-up? Do you learn quickly and adapt to change even quicker? Like to write, do research and get stuff done? Come be an intern at Causes! We're looking for recent grads to come give us a hand for 6 months and help us change the world. We offer a monetary stipend, three square meals a day and a great view in downtown San Francisco. If you're looking to get great experience in the tech, startup and social good space, this is the place for you.

Apply: Email your resume to jobs@causes.com with I'm In in the subject line.

Psst…don’t see your position listed? Don’t despair: We've listed a few specific positions above, but we’re always looking for talented folks. If you think you have something to offer, let us know at jobs@causes.com.