Senior Software Engineer

About Give Campus

Give Campus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non‑profit educational institutions. Trusted by 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K‑12 schools, our mission is to help advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education. We received a seed investment from Y Combinator in 2015 and have pursued a strategy of «Sustainable Growth» ever since: achieving six consecutive years of profitability and positive cash‑flow while more than quadrupling our revenue, our customer base, and our team.

In 2022, we raised $50 million to accelerate the next stage of our growth.

Through The Give Campus Social Mobility Initiative, we've donated $1 million in free fundraising support for programs that help low‑income students, first‑generation students, and underrepresented minorities. And in 2022 and 2023, we were named to Y Combinator's Top Companies list and the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest‑growing private companies.

While we operate at meaningful scale (we’ve facilitated more than $6 billion in charitable giving), we’re still small relative to the commercial and social good opportunities in front of us. Every Give Campus employee has a substantial impact on our trajectory, and we’re growing to help schools achieve even greater results.

Our purpose‑driven team of 120+ is located across the US: team members work from anywhere they choose. We have a beautiful 12,000 sf office in Washington, DC that is available for people to use whenever they want, and we regularly organize team meet‑ups, events, and retreats in various locations. We’re looking to expand our team with diverse and collaborative doers who believe in our mission and the transformative power of affordable, high‑quality education.

This is a remote‑first role based in the U.S. While we embrace flexible, distributed work, we also value in‑person connection. Team members are expected to attend multiple company‑wide and team‑specific onsite events throughout the year.

We are looking for a brilliant and energetic Senior Software Engineer to join Give Campus and help us take the platform to the next level. You will be a key member of our team, making technical decisions that will shape the company’s future. As a Senior Software Engineer you will help lead larger projects within your team, assisting the PM and other developers in your pod architect solutions and do initial work breakdown.

You will hit the ground running with our stack and you are someone who loves to brainstorm, write code, create new features, and have a big impact. We are headquartered in Washington, DC, but are hiring across the US (we are a fully remote workforce).

• 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 of 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)

• Functional, real world programming experience (vs. theoretical) in one of the…