GiveCampus · 2 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expGiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions, aiming to enhance the quality, affordability, and accessibility of education. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead larger projects, make technical decisions, and contribute to the development of the platform. The role involves working across the full stack, mentoring junior staff, and participating in team-wide initiatives.
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Responsibilities
Working on the full stack, from UI elements to backend services including getting into database tuning and performance
Iterating quickly, building new features from start to finish and back end to front end, including architecture design, coding, automated testing, and supporting each implementation in production
Be adaptable - work closely with and supporting your teammates in a fast-paced, agile development environment (both within your pod and across Engineering as a whole)
Tackling a wide variety of technical issues throughout our stack and contributing to all parts of the code base and shared documentation
Opportunity to take on a Tech Lead role which includes:
Working closely with the PM on implementation tradeoffs and work breakdown for new projects
Propose, refine and validate technical implementation for a pod’s roadmap work
Assist the PM with setting schedules and milestones - accountable for the pod shipping
Mentoring more junior staff to help them grow in their craft
Contribute to team-wide initiatives including coding standards, technical debt refinement and system security monitoring
Participate in the interviewing and onboarding new team members and assist in the refinement of our interviewing processes
Participating in the support of the platform on a rotational basis (team based support and paired 24/7 on call rotation)
Qualification
Required
Functional, real world programming experience (vs. theoretical) in one of the following: Ruby, Python or Javascript/node.js
System design experience with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye towards scale and resilience
Experience with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Django, Pyramid, etc
The ability to hold your own on the front end and the back end
Experience with modern front-end frameworks like React and Vue.js
SQL database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
Experience with deployments to Heroku, AWS, or similar
Experience balancing swift and long-term code maintainability
8 plus years of hands-on development experience
Preferred
Deep expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and RSpec
Experience with Postgres database administration
Shipped code that has supported tens of thousands of users, including enterprise/business customers
Operations experience and how it pertains to site reliability/speed
Familiarity with networking, caching, database, and how to triage performance and stability issues
Experience working on a fundraising/crowdfunding platform
Experience working on a fintech or payments technology product
A good eye for intuitive, user-friendly front end design
Company
GiveCampus
GiveCampus is a fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$50MKey Investors
Silversmith Capital PartnersCSC Upshot
2022-09-19Private Equity· $50M
2016-08-31Seed
2015-09-01Seed
Leadership Team
Kestrel Linder
Co-Founder and CEO
Michael Kong
Co-Founder and CTO
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