We are seeking a dedicated Senior Software Engineer with a passion for engineering across both back-end and front-end technologies. You will have a proven track record in leading, mentoring, and empowering your team to produce clean, stable, and technically sound code.

With a keen eye for detail and extensive experience in writing high-quality code, creating thorough tests, and conducting in-depth peer code reviews, you excel in problem-solving and are motivated by the chance to support nonprofit organizations. Your curiosity and commitment drive you to find innovative solutions, whether working independently or collaboratively. You thrive on feedback, viewing it as a chance to learn and enhance your skills both as a developer and as an individual.

Responsibilities

• Operates at a high technical level, leading initiatives and complex projects

• Influences technical direction and architectural decisions

• Owns projects that have a high impact on the company or product

• Partners with product management to align engineering work with business goals

• Mentors multiple engineers, focusing on technical excellence and team culture

• Contributes to on-call / pager duty, taking responsibility, accountability and ownership during high impact incidents

• Proactively contributes to team discussions, code reviews and strategic decisions

• Writes good and clear documentation to express solutions and design systems

Skills & Competencies

Technical Expertise

• Mastery in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, and Java preferred)

• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and NoSQL (MongoDB) a plus

• Familiar with modern full-stack frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Express, Django) and front-end frameworks (React preferred)

• Strong understanding and desire to perform full-stack development, including design, development, testing, scaling, and observability/monitoring

• Proficient with tools and technologies such as Git, Postman, command line/shell, SQL, HTML/CSS, and browser developer tools

• Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and application containerization (Docker) a plus

Leadership and Collaboration

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects, mentor team members, and drive best practices across teams

• Experience decomposing complex projects into actionable components and contributing to architectural patterns

• Effective communication skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders across business units

• Ability to build complex tech design, to a high degree of competency, unassisted

• Strong sense of ownership of projects and delivery

• Able to decompose projects into component pieces with confidence

• Respected contributor and mentor

• Drives process change across teams

• Effectively communicates with all stakeholders across the business (technical and non-technical)

• Contributes to patterns + architecture

• Effectively balances business needs with potential solutions

• Ability to express their solutions and ideas through documentation, diagrams, and RFCs

Work Methodologies

• Experienced in Agile/Scrum development practices

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, accountability, and ability to drive projects to completion independently

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer with at least 2 in a Senior role

• Preference for experience in a SaaS product company

• Proficiency in English (written and spoken)

• Experience with tools such as Linear, Notion, GitHub, Slack, and Python

• Experience with fundraising software is a plus