Pray.com has built the first ever mobile platform that allows faith organizations, non-profits, and cause-based groups to communicate, transact, and measure their impact on the world. 

Founded in 2016, Pray.com has quickly become one of the fastest-growing tech startups in California, and is backed by Greylock Partners, Sequoia Scouts, and Spark Capital among others. 

If you’re an experienced engineer looking to work with a fast-growing tech startup focused on making a difference in the world, if you are looking to use your talents to impact your local community, and if you are excited about witnessing the positive change happening on a global scale, then apply today!

Responsibilities

• Developing APIs for various platforms
• Writing high quality testable code
• Writing high quality tests
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions such as, redis, mysql, postgres, S3
• Integration with various data delivery platforms such as queues and message buses

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Design Patterns and Algorithms
• Strong understanding of OOP
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and knowledge of the frameworks available for it
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Understanding of JWT based authentication
• Good understanding of both noSQL and SQL databases
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Experience with TDD and other testing best practices
• Proficient understanding of Git

Bonus

• Experience with AWS, microservice architectures, and DDD a plus

Our Culture

Every person at Pray.com is devoted to our vision of creating a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others. 

We’re looking for talented engineers who understand and embrace our core values, D.R.E.A.M., which include: Devotion, Research, Empathy, Application, and Mindset. At Pray.com, respect for colleagues coming from all faith (and non-faith) backgrounds is a must. We support First Amendment rights and we have the unbelievable honor and privilege of working with incredible people.

At Pray.com we take pride in being a highly-productive team. We collaborate using SCRUM Teams, we provide candid constructive feedback to one another, and we leverage agile business principles in an open office space that is located 2 blocks from the beach.

More About Us

Founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneur Steve Gatena and his team of rockstar co-founders, Pray.com was incubated by Mike Jones (Current CEO of Science and former CEO of MySpace) and currently operates out of the Science space in Downtown Santa Monica, which has also seen the likes of Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, and FameBit pass through its doors.

Interested in learning more? Send us a message at [email protected].