Senior Backend Software Engineer

Feathr is a nonprofit marketing platform trusted by over 1,300 nonprofits. The platform equips nonprofits with the tools they need to build purposeful connections with their community and grow impact with confidence.

We’re building an amazing culture where people can do their best work. If you’re ready to grow and "help the helpers", you’ve come to the right place.

But hey, don’t take our word for it. Hear what current and former employees have to say about their experience.

Compensation: $120,000 base, and a bonus potential of up to 12%.

Benefits: Health, dental, vision, summer and winter breaks, paid vacation and sick time.

Your Company:

Feathr provides a modern digital marketing software solution for associations, nonprofits, credit unions, and event organizations. We unify our customers’ marketing efforts with our platform, including website analytics, targeted digital advertising, influencer marketing, and more.

Feathr is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Gainesville, Florida, with over 1,500 international clients. Our people are what make the difference. We’re looking for a unique individual who will dive right in, develop deep empathy for our customers, and accelerate Feathr's growth.

Your Work:

Feathr’s SaaS platform is critical to our clients. Senior Software Engineers help us grow and maintain technical components that meet advertising, marketing, and web analytics needs. A Senior Software Engineer at Feathr demonstrates interest and proficiency in web development.

You will work under a Director of Product on backend software development projects. Engineers own their code from planning to retirement, working with stakeholders to develop requirements and design solutions, collaborating with engineering colleagues, deploying and monitoring changes, and addressing issues.

Your

Experience:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience
• 2+ years building distributed software
• Professional experience owning a process that included shipping a complicated piece of software to real users
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, Cursor); used daily and core to our workflow

Your Technical

Skills:

• Work effectively in both synchronous and asynchronous environments
• Solid knowledge of key data structures and algorithms
• Focus on developing and maintaining security and compliance of enterprise data
• Strong proficiency in writing automated unit tests and integration tests
• Advanced proficiency with Elasticsearch APIs and use cases
• Expertise in Mongo
  
  DB queries, aggregations, and regular maintenance
• Advanced knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, SQS, EKS at minimum)
• Experience with event stream ingestion and transformation from diverse sources
• Effectively leverage AI coding assistants to accelerate development, debug issues, and explore unfamiliar codebases
• Nice to have: experience with Docker, self-hosted Drone CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, or programmatic advertising platforms

Your Qualities:

• Pragmatic and customer-oriented—you build software to help customers solve real problems
• A patient, detail-oriented problem-solver who works methodically through complex technical challenges
• Exceptional communicator; you explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborative team player invested in Feathr's success, the product team's goals, and your own growth
• Constantly looking to hone your craft and share those learnings with colleagues
• Adaptable and comfortable context-switching quickly when critical issues arise
• Service-oriented; you understand how to build sustainable systems that solve immediate problems while lasting into the future

Your Day:

• Design and implement backend features and services that ship to real users
• Solve technical problems and document their solutions for the team
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other teams to design and develop features
• Write clean, testable, performant code and thoughtfully review code written by your teammates
• Debug and resolve backend issues—performance bottlenecks, data consistency problems, production incidents
• Deploy your changes to…