Back End Developer

Karma Points is a social-impact platform that helps NGOs connect with donors and volunteers—and rewards generosity. We’re building transparent fundraising, community tools, and real-time impact tracking across India and beyond. If you love clean APIs, secure systems, and shipping fast for good causes, let’s talk.

Location:

Experience:

Salary:

What you will do:

• Design, build, and maintain robust REST/GraphQL APIs for our apps and partner integrations.
• Own database design and optimization (PostgreSQL/MySQL), caching (Redis), and background jobs/queues.
• Integrate third-party services: payment gateways (e.g., Razorpay/Stripe/Mollie), email/WhatsApp, analytics, and auth.
• Write secure, testable code with CI/CD, logging, and monitoring baked in.
• Collaborate with product/design to ship features for donations, rewards, and campaign analytics.
• Document your work and support internal tools used by ops and partner NGOs.

Skills Required:

• Strong in

  one

  backend stack:

  Node.js (Express/Nest)

  or

  Python (Django/FastAPI)

  (Go is a plus).
• Solid understanding of

  SQL

  , schema design, and performance tuning.
• API design, authentication/authorization (JWT/OAuth), rate-limiting, and security best practices.
• Experience with

  Git

  ,

  Docker

  , and writing unit/integration tests.
• Familiarity with

  cloud (AWS/GCP)

  concepts: storage, queues, compute, secrets.

Nice to have:

• Redis, message queues (SQS/RabbitMQ), Firebase/Firestore.
• Payment gateway integrations & webhooks.
• Basic React knowledge for internal dashboards.
• Observability (Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry).

Perks:

• Purpose with product:

  Ship features that directly move donations and real-world impact.

• Ownership:

  Small team, big autonomy, measurable outcomes.

• Modern stack & learning:

  Space to experiment, code reviews, and rapid iteration.

• Great culture:

  Builder mindset, clean code, and no-drama collaboration.

How to apply:

careers@thekarmapoints.com