Senior Software Engineer - Aplos

About Velora:

We’re excited to share that Aplos, Raisely, and Keela have come together to form one unified company,
Velora
, with a shared mission: to help nonprofit organizations thrive. While we continue to offer the products you know and love, we now operate as one team, dedicated to making nonprofit work easier, more impactful, and more sustainable.

Together, our combined expertise spans fundraising, donor management, financial tracking, and communications—offering a powerful suite of tools designed to reduce complexity so nonprofits can focus on what matters most: making a difference.

We’re one company with 3 products all servicing customers in the impact space. Working at Velora means that you have the opportunity to build one or across all our products.

We have a combination of merged teams and also teams dedicated to one specific product and you can find details about the work through our job descriptions under the “about the role” section.

Location:

• Canada Provinces:
  British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta only

With Aplos, nonprofit groups of every shape, size, and mission can seamlessly run their finances and operations, manage their business and bottom line, and proactively engage their communities and donors when it matters most. We’re a remote team, spread across North America (with peers all over the world).

Aplos is the largest nonprofit & church management software on the market. We’ve served over 40,000 organizations since our inception in 2009. Our all-inclusive platform provides a dynamic CRM, fundraising & giving tools, online donations & payment processing, built-in fund accounting system, integrated payroll, email marketing, website builder, and much more.

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team for Aplos. The ideal candidate will have proven Senior level experience in software development. They will utilize their skill set to collaborate with other senior technical leaders to design and build scalable distributed solutions, prioritizing performance, reliability and observability to ensure the customer’s user experience above all. This person will be joining the Platform Team, consisting of a team of engineers dedicated to creating and integrating a robust and scalable platform architecture to support our feature-based development teams.

They will participate in design and build a strong foundation for our teams by providing shared services, frameworks and patterns that enable them to focus on delivering high‑quality features to our users.

• Collaborate to develop high‑quality software designs and architecture for core platform systems
• Develop and maintain scalable and reliable micro‑services and APIs
• Maintain and transition legacy monolith platform
• Ensure patterns for instrumentation and observability
• Monitor and optimize system performance
• Prioritize, set and meet commitments
• Share technical expertise, mentor and provide technical guidance to the feature teams
• Ensure compliance of design specifications and engineering standards via code reviews

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior‑level role.
• Expertise in high‑level programming languages, with Node.js required and Java a strong plus.
• Deep understanding of modern architecture patterns, including microservices, event‑driven design, reactive systems, and domain‑driven design; familiarity with approaches such as the 12‑factor app methodology and C4 model diagrams.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure beneficial) and solid understanding of cloud‑native design principles.
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience working in Agile environments, with the ability to decompose work and deliver incrementally on a schedule.
• Exceptional communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to align technical and business stakeholders

If you need more convincing, here’s the rest of it:

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