Senior Software Engineer, Fundraising at GiveDirectly

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and test software systems for fundraising, including the core checkout flow for online donations and Impact Dashboard where donors can see the impact of their personal donations
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with the product team to design and build a compelling and smooth donor experience
• Partner with product to balance feature development with addressing tech debt, infrastructure investments, and other efforts to improve velocity and drive compounding progress
• Partner with data to enable metrics collection and measurement, and provide information for website performance analysis
• Debug issues across multiple layers of our stack
• Own large projects end-to-end, including scoping, estimating costs, and design and architecture decisions
• Advocate for engineering-driven investments with a vision for keeping our systems flexible and maintainable to meet the evolving needs of our donors and team

What You’ll Bring

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
• Language Requirement: English
• 4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems
• Full stack experience
• Strong proficiency in software development and coding in various languages such as Python, Go, Javascript, C#, Java, PHP, etc.
• Experience building infrastructure to deploy software
• High degree of ownership and autonomy - you proactively advocate for ways to improve systems and constantly leave our codebase in a better state than you found it
• Strong analytical skills and communication - able to break down complex problems, describe technical trade-offs, and collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. technical program managers, product managers)
• Strong knowledge of security best practices for web applications