[cssanchez]

I've always worked in a social good type of company. I love knowing my work directly contributes to improving society, and in fact I've made it my slogan in my resume. Currently I work for a startup that helps people find help from non profit orgs. I wouldn't say I gave up anything to work in this space, except that it's not a bleeding edge space with the latest in tech. Instead we have to work with non-technical people that run non profits, government agencies, insurance companies, etc.

To give you an idea, I met with a "head of IT" that sent over private info over unsecured email and they didn't know what SFTP is or any best practice of encryption... So our devs wrote a mini portal for him to authenticate and upload his info, because FFS.

[nmoadev]

How did you find these opportunities? I'm looking but having a hard time finding non-profits hiring "Software Engineer" on job sites.

[cssanchez]

Because I don't work for nonprofits, they are regular companies that do social good. Some are officially registered as B corps or Public Benefit Corporations, but some aren't officially registered, they just have it as part of their mantra and core product. I've been in a telehealth startup, an interpreting&translation startup, and now in a health tech startup linking nonprofits and vulnerable communities.

As to how I found them? Pure luck... It's been fun, challenging and there's no greater feeling at the end of the day. Interpreting in particular was such an eye opener, I could talk about it for hours.