Senior Software Engineer - Keela

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.

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Keela is a cloud-based CRM platform tailored specifically for nonprofits, designed to streamline donor management, fundraising, and communication efforts. It offers a suite of tools that enable organizations to manage donor relationships, automate routine tasks like gift acknowledgments and tax receipts, and execute targeted email campaigns. With features such as AI-driven donor insights and customizable dashboards, Keela empowers nonprofits to make data-informed decisions and enhance their fundraising strategies.

• Operates at a high technical level, leading initiatives and complex projects.
• Influences technical direction and architectural decisions.
• Owns projects that have a high impact on the company or product.
• Partners with product management to align engineering work with business goals.
• Mentors multiple engineers, focusing on technical excellence and team culture.
• Contributes to on-call / pager duty, taking responsibility, accountability and ownership during a high impact incident.
• Proactively contributes to team discussions, code reviews and strategic decisions.
• Writes good and clear documentation to express solutions and design systems.

• 5 - 7 years minimum industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Ability to build complex tech design, to high degree of competency, unassisted.
• Strong sense of ownership of projects and delivery.
• Able to decompose projects into component pieces with confidence.
• Respected contributor and mentor.
• Drives process change across teams.
• Effectively communicates with all stakeholders across the business (technical and non-technical).
• Contributes to patterns + architecture.
• Effectively balances business needs with potential solutions.
• Ability to express their solutions and ideas through documentation, diagrams, and RFCs.

Technical Expertise

• Experience with relational databases such as Postgre
  
  SQL, and No
  
  SQL (Mongo
  
  DB) is a plus.
• Familiar with modern full-stack frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Express, Django, Laravel) and front-end frameworks (Vue preferred).
• Strong understanding and desire to perform full-stack development, including technical design, development, testing, scaling, and observability/monitoring.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and application containerization (Docker) is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects, mentor team members, and drive best practices across teams.
• Experience decomposing complex projects into actionable components and contributing to architectural patterns.
• Effective communication skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders across business units.
• Ability to build complex tech design, to a high degree of competency, unassisted.

• Experienced in Agile/Scrum development practices.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, accountability, and ability to drive projects to completion independently.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer with at least 2 in a Senior role. Preference for experience in a SaaS product company.
• Proficiency…