Watsi (YCW13) / SF / Full-stack engineers (onsite)
Watsi is a global crowdfunding platform that enables anyone to directly fund healthcare for people around
the world.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
We’re a team of engineers, designers, doctors, and marketers working at Watsi because we believe that everyone, everywhere deserves access to healthcare. We move fast, take risks, and come to work every day excited about building an organization that matters more than we do.
We’re looking for a full-stack engineer to join our eight-person team in San Francisco. The ideal candidate is a self-directed, product-focused generalist who’s excited to work on whatever is needed to bring healthcare to the world – everything from optimizing donation flows to designing a patient management system for hospitals.
If this sounds interesting to you, please send us an email at [email protected], include your linkedin, github, etc, and tell us a little about yourself.
Hey there, Thomas from Watsi here. We actually used to have a "Donate monthly" checkout during the one-time donation flow, but in the several months that the checkbox was live, I think exactly one person ever checked it. We also have a link to the Universal Fund after you make a one-time donation, and that's seen good conversions.
That said, I definitely agree that there are other ways to solicit a donor to join the Universal Fund during / after a one-time donation. Our next idea for a test is to add a quick option immediately after a one-time donation that let's you sign up right there, something like, "Donate $5 every month! [Yes] / [No]".
A quick clarification here: joining the Universal Fund doesn't mean that we charge your credit card an amount every month and you have no idea where or who your donation is going towards. Every month, we automatically pick a patient your donation goes towards, and you get an email with the patient's story, and an update email after the patient's medical procedure.
Thomas from Watsi here! When we were initially building the recurring donation feature, we experimented with using Stripe's recurring billing functionality, but we ended up building our own monthly charging (still through Stripe's API). Stripe's feature is more designed for fixed-price "plans" that folks can sign up for - i.e., SaaS products, rather than the Universal Fund's pick-your-own-amount recurring charge.
Where do you draw the line between "creating new software" and a "large scale project"? Every large scale project starts as a small project, so at some point you must decide to start writing tests; and then you have the burden of backfilling 'em.
Watsi – http://watsi.org – San Francisco, CA; FULLTIME, possible VISA
Watsi is a global crowdfunding platform that enables anyone to directly fund healthcare for people around the world.
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
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We’re a team of developers, designers, doctors, and marketers working at Watsi because we believe that everyone, everywhere deserves access to healthcare. We move fast, take risks, and come to work every day excited about building an organization that matters more than we do.
We’re looking for a full-stack developer (engineer #2) to join our five-person team in San Francisco. The ideal candidate is an experienced, product-focused generalist who wants to use their skills to bring healthcare to the world. Our stack is Rails, Backbone.js, SCSS, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, RSpec, and Jasmine. You don't have to be familiar with our stack, but you do need to learn fast :)
If you’re interested in learning more, please send whatever info you have (linkedin, github, personal site) to [email protected].