Senior Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Develop Velora’s AI-native software platform tailored for nonprofit organizations.

• Initially concentrate on CRM, data, and integrations that facilitate donor management, communications, automation, and reporting.

• Take ownership of high-impact projects from the Product prototype stage through solution design, implementation, release, and post-release stability.

• Collaborate with Product to define customer outcomes, decompose work into increments, and address scope versus timeline trade-offs.

• Work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data to deliver comprehensive features.

• Design secure APIs and data models while safeguarding sensitive donor information.

• Supervise coding agents, critically assess their output, and maintain accountability for every modification.

• Ensure quality and release readiness through unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as failure-case validation and production verification.

• Monitor and troubleshoot deployed software.

• Influence technical direction and transform mature application logic into newer services when suitable.

• Conduct thorough code reviews, mentor colleagues, share knowledge, and develop reusable engineering patterns and agent workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience as a software engineer, including at least 2 years at a senior level.

• Preferred experience with SaaS products.

• Experience in independently leading complex full-stack projects from design to production.

• Strong foundational knowledge in web technologies, including state management, authentication, authorization, secure APIs, and data modeling.

• Understanding of system architecture and database management.

• Practical mindset towards reliability, security, and scalability.

• Daily engagement with AI coding agents, possessing the judgment to guide and evaluate their output.

• Responsibility for automated testing, release readiness, and production performance.

• Clear communication and collaboration skills with Product and engineering teams.

• Experience in providing constructive feedback, mentoring, code review, and knowledge sharing.

• Familiarity with TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Vue, or similar frameworks.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL/MongoDB, schema design, migrations, and event-driven systems like Kafka or change data capture.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, serverless platforms, feature flags, and observability.

• Experience with AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot and reusable agent workflows.

• Background in designing data and AI-powered features, metrics, semantic layers, analytics data modeling, and trustworthy LLM-driven flows.

• Nonprofit, CRM, or fundraising experience is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid leave.

• 11 public holidays.

• Additional 2-week end-of-year company shutdown.

• Generous paid sick leave.

• Remote-first work environment within approved hiring locations.

• Support for skill development.

• Reimbursement for conference or course tickets.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 4% retirement match.

• Accommodations during the interview process.