GiveCampus · 15 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer- Finance & Business Systems
Washington, DC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expGiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions, dedicated to enhancing the quality, affordability, and accessibility of education. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work closely with Finance, Operations, and Engineering, focusing on building systems that improve operational efficiency and provide actionable insights into unit economics.
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Responsibilities
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
Being adaptable - working 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
Contributing to team-wide initiatives including coding standards, tech debt refinement and system security monitoring
Participating in the interviewing and onboarding new team members and assisting in the refinement of our interviewing processes
Participating in the support of the platform on a rotational basis (team-based support and paired, on-call rotation)
Qualification
Required
Strong experience with Ruby on Rails or another mature MVC framework (e.g., Django). System design experience with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye towards scale and resilience
Comfort working across the stack, including backend services, databases, and light frontend work
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
Experience balancing swift and long-term code maintainability
5 plus years of hands-on development experience
Comfort working with financial concepts such as margins, COGS, pricing, revenue recognition, or unit economics (direct experience or strong interest)
Experience building systems where correctness, auditability, and explainability matter
Ability to work with non-technical stakeholders and translate ambiguous business questions into concrete technical work
Ability to handle ambiguity and shaping the problem, not just the solution
Preferred
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/business customers
Operations experience and how it pertains to site reliability/speed
Familiarity with networking, caching, database, and how to triage performance and stability issues
Experience working on a fundraising/crowdfunding platform
Experience working on a fintech or payments technology product
Experience working in a start up environment
A good eye for intuitive, user-friendly front end design
Experience building internal tools or platforms used by Finance or Operations teams
Company
GiveCampus
GiveCampus is a fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$50MKey Investors
Silversmith Capital PartnersCSC Upshot
2022-09-19Private Equity· $50M
2016-08-31Seed
2015-09-01Seed
Leadership Team
Kestrel Linder
Co-Founder and CEO
Michael Kong
Co-Founder and CTO
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