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✊ Mission-driven organizations that employ software engineers

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Engineering for Good

A list of mission-driven organizations that hire software engineers.

  • A mission-driven organization prioritizes solving real-world issues ethically and responsibly.
  • A mission-driven organization puts equal or more into the community than it gets back.
  • A mission-driven organization can be non-for-profit, but it doesn't have to be.
  • A non-profit organization is not always mission-driven.

Please read the Code of Conduct and guidelines before contributing.

⭐ Thank you to Lauren Tan for inspiring the format with Hiring without whiteboards.

List of Organizations

  • Act Now Coalition | Public service | Chicago, IL | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Mission: To build innovative, user-friendly products with a nimble, streamlined approach to help solve today's most pressing social problems

  • Allen Institute for AI | Public service | Seattle, WA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Mission: To contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering

  • Audere | Health | Seattle, WA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Mission: Improve global health outcomes in the world's most underserved communities; building products that enable people of any skill level to administer, interpret, and digitally record the world's most utilized rapid diagnostic tests

  • betterplace | Public service | Berlin, Germany | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Mission: Make it easier for people to change the world through donations

  • ChargePoint | Environmental | Campbell, CA; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Gurgoan, India | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | Mission: To create technology that will enable the movement of all people and goods on electricity

  • Crisis Text Line | Health | New York, NY | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Mission: To promote mental well-being for people wherever they are

  • edX | Education | Cambridge, MA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | Increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere; Enhance teaching and learning on campus and online; Advance teaching and learning through research

  • Humu | Human rights | Mountain View, CA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | Make work better, for everyone, everywhere

  • First Look Media | Public service | New York, NY | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | Supporting independent voices, from fearless investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking to smart, provocative entertainment

  • FREE THE WORK | Human rights | Los Angeles, CA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Identifying systemic inequalities in film, television, advertising, and media, and finding actionable solutions to expand access for underrepresented creators

  • GoodRx | Health | Santa Monica, CA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | Help people get the healthcare they need at a price they can afford

  • Guild Education | Education | Denver, CO | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | Unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling with a double bottom line business model that does well by doing good

  • Incredible Health | Health | San Francisco, CA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | Empower healthcare professionals to find and do their best work

  • Health Equity Tracker | Health | Atlanta, GA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Build a product that shines a light on health inequities in the United States. We aim to show how systemic racism and other factors have caused disparate health outcomes, and to advocate for policy change to improve the health of all.

  • Kiva | Human rights | San Francisco, CA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | A financially inclusive world where all people hold the power to improve their lives

  • League of Conservation Voters | Environmental | Washington, DC | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | To build a world with clean air, clean water, public lands, and a safe climate that are protected by a just and equitable democracy

  • LearnPlatform | Education | Raleigh, NC | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | To expand equitable access for all students to teaching and technology that works best for them

  • Mark43 | Public service | New York, NY | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | To empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all

  • Measures for Justice | Human rights | Rochester, NY | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | To make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform

  • National Geographic Society | Environmental | Washington, DC | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Using the power of science, exploration, education, and storytelling to illuminate and protect

  • Service Employees International Union | Human rights | Washington, DC; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | Improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society

  • Syndio | Human rights | Seattle, WA | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | To build expert-backed technology that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity

  • U.S. Digital Service | Public service | Washington, DC | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | To deliver better government services to the American people through technology and design

  • Warby Parker | Health | New York, NY | Remote friendly? ✅ | Current openings | Nonprofit? ❌ | To advocate for wider access to vision services, educate communities on the importance of eye health, and provide people with the eye care they need to lead safe, happy, and productive lives

  • World Wildlife Fund | Environmental | Washington, DC | Remote friendly? ? | Current openings | Nonprofit? ✅ | To stop the degradation of the earth’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by conserving the world’s biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption