Senior Software Engineer, Fundraising

GiveDirectly is the first - and largest - nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world’s poorest. We believe people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives - cash enables that choice.

Senior Software Engineer, Fundraising

Job Type - Full Time

Qualification - BA/BSc/HND

Experience - 4 years

Location - Nairobi

Job Field - ICT / Computer 

What You’ll Do

Architect, build, and test software systems for fundraising, including the core checkout flow for online donations and Impact Dashboard where donors can see the impact of their personal donations

Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software development lifecycle

Collaborate with the product team to design and build a compelling and smooth donor experience

Partner with product to balance feature development with addressing tech debt, infrastructure investments, and other efforts to improve velocity and drive compounding progress

Partner with data to enable metrics collection and measurement, and provide information for website performance analysis

Debug issues across multiple layers of our stack

Own large projects end-to-end, including scoping, estimating costs, and design and architecture decisions

Advocate for engineering-driven investments with a vision for keeping our systems flexible and maintainable to meet the evolving needs of our donors and team

What You’ll Bring

Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.

Language Requirement: English

4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems

Full stack experience

Strong proficiency in software development and coding in various languages such as Python, Go, Javascript, C#, Java, PHP, etc.

Experience building infrastructure to deploy software

High degree of ownership and autonomy - you proactively advocate for ways to improve systems and constantly leave our codebase in a better state than you found it

Strong analytical skills and communication - able to break down complex problems, describe technical trade-offs, and collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. technical program managers, product managers)

Strong knowledge of security best practices for web applications