GiveCampus
Senior Software Engineer
United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 131 days ago
JavaScriptPythonRubySwiftReactVue.jsNode.jsDjangoRailsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLPostgreSQLMySQLSQLiteAWSAccessibilityTest AutomationMentoringAdaptability
About the role
- GiveCampus is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, but we're also practitioners of Sustainable Growth: we've made the Inc.
- 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies each of the last five years and we've been profitable nine of the last 10.
- In 2025, we celebrated a $140 million growth investment that included a major liquidity event for GiveCampus employees-the second in less than three years.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Propose, refine and validate technical implementation for a pod's roadmap work
- Participating in the support of the platform on a rotational basis (team based support and paired 24/7 on call rotation)
- Every GiveCampus employee plays a meaningful role in shaping what comes next, and we're growing the team in support of our ambitious plans-including a $100 million investment in AI product development.
Requirements
- Functional, real world programming experience (vs. theoretical) in one of the following: Ruby, Python or Javascript/node.js
- System design experience with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye towards scale and resilience
- Experience with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Django, Pyramid, etc
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks like React and Vue.js
- Experience with deployments to Heroku, AWS, or similar.
- Experience balancing swift and long-term code maintainability.
Nice to have
- Deep expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and RSpec.
- Experience with Postgres database administration.
- 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.
- 8 plus years of hands-on development experience
Skills
- Working on the full stack, from UI elements to backend services including getting into database tuning and performance.
- Tackling a wide variety of technical issues throughout our stack and contributing to all parts of the code base and shared documentation.
- Working closely with the PM on implementation tradeoffs and work breakdown for new projects
- 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 new team members and assist in the refinement of our interviewing processes
Benefits
- If you believe in the transformative power of education and want to join a fast-growing, mission-driven company, you'll fit right in.
Company info
- GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions.
- Trusted by millions of donors and 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools, our mission is to help advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education.
- At our current pace, we will facilitate $100 billion in charitable giving over the next decade-enough money to send more than 1 million students to college, tuition-free.
- GiveCampus is backed by leading investors including
- While we operate at meaningful scale, we're still small relative to the commercial and social good opportunities in front of us.
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