Senior Software Engineer (Fundraising) — Remote
GiveDirectly · Engineering · Senior · 1mo ago
$112k – $181k
per year
Open to candidates living in United States, United Kingdom, Kenya.
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Who can apply
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Open to candidates living in United States, United Kingdom, Kenya.
“You have the right to work in one of the countries we're able to hire from (you can check the current list here).”
Team spans 20+ countries with required meeting availability across East Africa Time and US Eastern Time.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- Team members travel to meet colleagues in the US, Europe, and Africa a few weeks each year.
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About the role
As one of two fundraising engineers, you will use engineering to support fundraising operations, delight donors, and ensure donations are securely recorded and transferred to recipients. The tech stack is a mix of practical and legacy systems including Laravel, PHP, plain JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Salesforce, WordPress, and SQL. You will work autonomously to define requirements, build solutions, test, launch, and troubleshoot incidents during peak donation periods.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain websites, donor interfaces, and internal donation processing pipelines
- Integrate and wrangle data across legacy tools such as Salesforce, WordPress, and partner CSV files
- Work autonomously to define technical tasks, test implementations, deploy solutions, and resolve bugs
- Collaborate directly with non-technical fundraising team members on ambiguous and rapidly evolving projects
- Participate in on-call rotations during peak donation days, including Giving Tuesday and year-end campaigns
What you bring
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Right to work in an approved hiring country (such as the US, UK, or Kenya)
- Comfort working with pragmatic and legacy technologies like PHP, Laravel, plain JavaScript, Salesforce, WordPress, and SQL
- Ability to work independently and troubleshoot code autonomously
- Fluency in English and willingness to travel internationally a few weeks per year
- Flexibility to overlap for meetings across East Africa Time and US Eastern Time
About GiveDirectly
GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization that delivers unconditional cash transfers directly to people living in poverty across 15 countries, operating with an analytical, high-ownership, and recipient-first culture.
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