Software Engineer, Online Giving

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

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain donor-oriented giving forms, giving pages, and administrative tools with a focus on conversion, accessibility, and mobile-first design.

• Construct and secure one-time, recurring, and membership payment processes utilizing Stripe, ACH, and Digital Wallets.

• Engage across the entire stack, encompassing UI components, backend services, database queries, and performance optimization.

• Take ownership of features and small-to-medium projects from inception to completion, including technical design, task breakdown, coding, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Collaborate with the Tech Lead, Product Manager, Designer, and engineers to transform user requirements and business objectives into technical solutions.

• Involve yourself in sprint planning, story scoping, estimation, and acceptance criteria review.

• Produce clean, tested, and well-documented code while participating in code reviews.

• Aid in refining technical debt and establishing coding standards.

• Engage in the interviewing and onboarding process.

• Provide platform support through team-based assistance and a paired 24/7 on-call rotation, which includes payment reconciliation, recurring gift issues, reporting fixes, and partner configuration requests.

• Deploy production changes multiple times a day in an Agile setting, primarily using Scrum with one-week sprints.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3+ years of practical, hands-on development experience.

• Full-stack expertise with a contemporary front-end framework such as React or Vue.js, along with a backend language and framework such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, or similar.

• Experience in contributing to technical design discussions and decomposing features into well-defined, incrementally deliverable tasks.

• Strong SQL database competencies, including schema design, query writing and optimization, and ensuring data integrity.

• Proficient in building and integrating RESTful APIs.

• Familiarity with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong debugging instincts in production environments, demonstrating a balance between speed and maintainability.

• Excellent communication skills, adaptability to ambiguity and shifting priorities, and a sense of ownership from conception to maintenance.

• A user-centered approach concerning donors, school administrators, and fundraising outcomes.

• Willingness to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsite meetings throughout the year.

• Preference for candidates with Rails and React experience.

• Bonus: Experience in payments, Ruby on Rails and RSpec, consumer-facing checkout or donation processes, fundraising/crowdfunding/fintech/e-commerce products, caching, observability, performance/stability triage, or front-end design.

🏝️ Benefits

• Team members have the flexibility to work from anywhere within the U.S.

• Access to a spacious 12,000-square-foot office in Washington, DC, whenever desired.

• Opportunities for multiple company-wide and team-specific onsite events throughout the year.

• Team gatherings, partner institution visits, and retreats.

• Pathways for growth toward Senior Software Engineer positions.

• A supportive, inclusive, and learning-oriented environment.

• Employee liquidity event linked to the 2025 growth investment.