Senior Software Engineer

🕒 February 25

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

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

💵 $157.5k / 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

• Design and build scalable, reliable systems powering donor platforms, recipient payment systems, and crisis response tools • Own end-to-end development of new features and services from architecture through deployment and monitoring • Improve developer workflows by strengthening CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual steps, and increasing test coverage • Collaborate with product, operations, and data teams to understand needs and ship tools supporting field program delivery • Debug and resolve production issues across the stack through root cause analysis and long-term fixes • Advocate for sustainable engineering practices, including testing, documentation, and monitoring • Help shape the technology roadmap with focus on scale, maintainability, and recipient experience • Contribute to GiveDirectly’s mission of delivering cash transfers to people living in poverty and disaster-affected communities

🎯 Requirements

• English language requirement • 4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems • Experience with backend architecture, including databases, cloud services, and APIs • Experience building infrastructure to deploy software • Experience with strongly typed, object-oriented programming such as Java, C#, or Go • Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Ruby • High degree of ownership and autonomy • Strong analytical skills and communication skills • Ability to meet with the East Africa timezone by at least 2 hours a couple of times a week • Must be able to travel approximately 1–2 times per year to one of GiveDirectly’s countries of operation • GiveDirectly Values alignment and demonstration of emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity • Bonus: Experience using Python and AWS in a production environment • Bonus: Experience with payments/financial software and/or microservice/serverless architecture • Employment visa sponsorship is unavailable in the U.S. and U.K.

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus at target performance: 15%, with potential for upside • Annual benefits stipend: $21,393 for United States; £2,760 for United Kingdom; $8,453 for Kenya • Positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement • Commitment to staff development and growth • Robust health benefits plan, with details varying by country • Unlimited PTO • Desk allowance • Flexible work location • Travel to team retreats or field visits approximately 1–2 times per year