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  • Posted: Aug 22, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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    GiveDirectly is the first - and largest - nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world’s poorest. We believe people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives - cash enables that choice.
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    Senior Software Engineer, Fundraising

    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

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    Finance Systems Manager

    What You’ll Do
    Own finance tech systems

    • Own the administration, configuration, and integration of finance tech systems (including accounting, expenses, timesheets, and payments)
    • Lead development of finance tech systems strategy to ensure the finance team has the right software tools to operate productively and securely, and lead initiatives to implement that strategy
    • Build a deep understanding of finance needs, and use that to anticipate and remove obstacles and leverage tech to drive improvements

    Provide user support to org-wide users

    • Respond to user requests through our ticketing system, such as adding new vendors or troubleshooting access
    • Ensure effective user access and permissions management, and timely onboarding and offboarding of users
    • Provide training and support to users across the organization

    Ensure trusted, reliable financial data

    • Create and uphold data quality contracts for core finance data
    • Interface with engineers and data architects on integrations and ensure that finance data is available and usable for reporting org-wide

    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 relevant professional experience in financial systems management, accounting/finance, or IT systems with a focus on financial applications
    • Knowledge of IT security best practices and secure configuration of cloud-based software tools
    • Deep expertise with accounting software (Sage Intacct a bonus)
    • Knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting standards
    • Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
    • Deep expertise with Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets; strong ability to extract, clean, and manipulate large data sets
    • Strong initiative and ability to drive process improvements that impact multiple teams
    • High attention to detail and to high quality customer service
    • Systematic approach to troubleshooting technical problems and finding the root cause
    • Strong project management experience; comfortable managing complex timelines and multiple stakeholders
    • Ability to communicate technical concepts to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, including finance, programs, and fundraising teams
    • Bonus but not required: accounting experience
    • Bonus but not required: experience working with relational databases (e.g. SQL)

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