Senior Software Engineer – Fundraising

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🌐 United States, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

💵 $181.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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GiveDirectly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $1M Grant on 2018-03

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing direct cash transfers to individuals in need around the world. With a mission to help people living on less than $2. 15 per day, GiveDirectly empowers recipients to make their own financial decisions by delivering unconditional cash directly to them, leveraging mobile money technology. Their innovative approach has led to broad recognition and has been studied in numerous research projects. By bypassing traditional aid mechanisms, GiveDirectly aims to efficiently and scalably transform lives, offering targeted assistance in regions such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and the United States, among others.

📋 Description

• 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