About the role
GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. This Senior Software Engineer (Fundraising) role owns engineering that supports fundraising: delighting donors, enabling fundraisers, and getting donations recorded and started. The work mixes some website development with data plumbing across legacy systems like Salesforce and Wordpress.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain systems that record and start donations and support donors and fundraisers.
- Develop lightweight website features as needed.
- Support data pipelines and integrations with Salesforce, Wordpress, and CSV files from partners.
- Work independently with minimal constraints and collaborate with fundraising teams.
- Contribute to AI enabled processes to increase fundraising impact.
- Be on call during peak donation days and help troubleshoot legacy code.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years of engineering experience.
- Comfortable working autonomously: define what needs doing, do it, test and launch, fix bugs, and hustle daily.
- Proficiency with or willingness to work with Laravel, PHP, plain JS, HTML, CSS, Salesforce, Wordpress, SQL, and wrangling CSV files; comfortable with legacy technologies.
- Strong communication and collaboration with non engineers.
- Fluent in English; able to work across time zones and travel occasionally.
- Availability for on call during peak donation days and incident ownership.
For applicants in Nigeria
- The posting requires overlap with East Africa Time and US Eastern Time by at least 3 hours; verify how this applies from Nigeria.
- The listing notes that only certain countries are eligible to hire from; check the current eligible countries list to confirm Nigeria status before interviewing.
- There is no visa sponsorship for US or UK work; ensure you have eligible work authorization in a supported country.
- If not based in US, UK or Kenya, an estimated salary benchmark will be shared for the country you are based in during the hiring process.
- You should be happy to travel a few weeks per year to meet colleagues in the US, Europe and Africa.
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