Senior Software Engineer – Fundraising
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Senior Software Engineer supporting GiveDirectly’s fundraising systems and donor experience. Maintaining Laravel, PHP, Salesforce, WordPress, and data integrations for global poverty relief.
Responsibilities:
- Use engineering to support fundraising and delight donors
- Help fundraisers and ensure donations are recorded and safely started on their journey to recipients
- Communicate to donors and the public what happens to their gifts
- Develop websites and maintain fundraising-related plumbing and integrations
- Work directly with fundraising teams
- Define, implement, test, launch, and maintain work autonomously
- Fix bugs and debug legacy and other engineers' code
- Own incidents and communicate with fundraisers during peak donation periods
- Work with Laravel, PHP, plain JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Salesforce, WordPress, SQL, and partner-provided CSV files
- Collaborate with non-engineers on messy, poorly defined, rapidly changing tasks
Requirements:
- Right to work in one of the countries GiveDirectly is able to hire from
- Fluent in English
- 4+ years of engineering experience
- Willingness to work remotely with meetings overlapping East Africa Time and US Eastern Time
- Willingness to travel to meet colleagues in the US, Europe, and Africa a few weeks per year
- Comfortable with Laravel, PHP, plain JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Salesforce, WordPress, SQL, and CSV files; experience in all is not required
- Ability to work autonomously, define tasks, test and launch work, fix bugs, and make progress independently
- Ability to be on-call on peak donation days and own incidents, including communicating with fundraisers and debugging legacy and others' code
- Skilled at working directly with non-engineers on messy, poorly defined, rapidly changing tasks
- Successful completion of take-home coding assignment, live coding, systems design, and project deep dive/behavioral interviews
- Agreement with GiveDirectly's mission and values
- Background, reference, criminal background, sanctions, and safeguarding checks may be conducted
Benefits:
- Bonus at target performance: 15%, with potential for upside
- Annual benefits stipend: $21,393 in the United States, £2,760 in the United Kingdom, or $8,453 in Kenya
- Competitive salary
- Robust health benefits plan, with details varying by country
- Unlimited PTO
- Desk allowance
- Flexible work location
- Opportunities for advancement
- Professional development and staff growth support
- $500 referral reward for a Manager role; $3,000 for a Senior Manager or above role
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