Software Engineer- General Interest

Summary

GiveCampus is a fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions. The company is seeking software engineers at mid-level through senior levels to build and maintain features across the full stack, make technical decisions, and support the production platform. The role includes collaboration, mentoring, interviewing, and opportunities to grow into a Tech Lead position.

Responsibilities

• Work across the full stack, from UI elements to backend services—including database tuning and performance
• Build features from start to finish and back end to front end, covering architecture design, coding, automated testing, and supporting each implementation in production
• Iterate quickly and adapt, working closely with your teammates in a fast-paced, agile environment—both within your pod and across Engineering as a whole
• Tackle a wide variety of technical issues throughout our stack and contribute to every part of the code base and our shared documentation
• Contribute to team-wide initiatives including coding standards, technical debt refinement, and system security monitoring
• Share what you know—through code review, pairing, and mentoring engineers earlier in their careers
• Participate in interviewing and onboarding new teammates, and help us refine how we interview
• Support the platform on a rotational basis (team-based support and a paired 24/7 on-call rotation)
• Working closely with the PM on implementation tradeoffs and work breakdown for new projects
• Proposing, refining, and validating the technical implementation for a pod's roadmap work
• Assisting the PM with schedules and milestones, and holding accountability for the pod shipping
• Helping other engineers on the team grow in their craft

Skills

• Three or more years of hands-on, professional development experience. More senior candidates will bring correspondingly more scope and ownership
• Functional, real-world programming experience (vs. theoretical) in one of the following: Ruby, Python, or JavaScript/Node.js
• Experience with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Django, or Pyramid
• The ability to hold your own on the front end and the back end
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks like React and Vue.js
• SQL database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
• Experience with deployments to Heroku, AWS, or similar
• Good judgment about balancing swift delivery against long-term code maintainability
• Clear, proactive communication—you ask questions early and share progress often
• This is a remote-first role based in the U.S
• We're a fully remote workforce, so this role is open anywhere in the United States
• Team members are expected to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsites throughout the year
• System design experience, with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye toward scale and resilience
• Deep expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and RSpec
• Experience with Postgres database administration
• Shipped code that has supported tens of thousands of users, including enterprise and business customers
• Operations experience and how it pertains to site reliability and speed
• Familiarity with networking, caching, and databases, and how to triage performance and stability issues
• Experience working on a fundraising or crowdfunding platform
• Experience working on a fintech or payments technology product
• A good eye for intuitive, user-friendly front-end design

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Three or more years of hands-on, professional development experience. More senior candidates will bring correspondingly more scope and ownership
• Functional, real-world programming experience (vs. theoretical) in one of the following: Ruby, Python, or JavaScript/Node.js
• Experience with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Django, or Pyramid
• The ability to hold your own on the front end and the back end
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks like React and Vue.js
• SQL database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
• Experience with deployments to Heroku, AWS, or similar
• Good judgment about balancing swift delivery against long-term code maintainability
• Clear, proactive communication—you ask questions early and share progress often
• This is a remote-first role based in the U.S
• We're a fully remote workforce, so this role is open anywhere in the United States
• Team members are expected to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsites throughout the year

Nice to Haves

• System design experience, with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye toward scale and resilience
• Deep expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and RSpec
• Experience with Postgres database administration
• Shipped code that has supported tens of thousands of users, including enterprise and business customers
• Operations experience and how it pertains to site reliability and speed
• Familiarity with networking, caching, and databases, and how to triage performance and stability issues
• Experience working on a fundraising or crowdfunding platform
• Experience working on a fintech or payments technology product
• A good eye for intuitive, user-friendly front-end design

Benefits

• Real ownership of production work, with the support and code review to back it up.
• A say in the technical decisions that shape the platform, not just the tickets that come out of them.
• A fully remote team that's built for remote work, not retrofitted for it.
• The chance to help schools raise money that changes students' lives.