Senior Software Engineer

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are hiring Software Engineers with 3–4 years of experience who are ready to take meaningful ownership of backend systems and work with minimal supervision.

This role is designed for engineers who have moved beyond writing features under guidance and are now ready to own them end-to-end — from design to production. You will be expected to make sound technical decisions, debug complex production issues independently, and contribute to how our systems scale and stay reliable.

If you have been in production, felt the pain of a silent failure, reasoned through a double-charge incident, or rearchitected a sync job that silently dropped data — this role is for you.

You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build systems that are scalable, maintainable, and production-ready. Your daily work will involve:

- Ensuring Data Integration with Third-Party CRMs: Design and own solutions that integrate customer data seamlessly and reliably with various CRM systems.

- Enhancing Event and Fundraising Management Tools: Drive improvements to our event and fundraising tools, with a focus on reliability and scale.

- Owning Payment and Communication Systems: Take end-to-end ownership of systems that handle payments and user communications, including resilience and failure handling.

- Maintaining and Improving System Uptime: Lead reliability efforts in your areas of ownership, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Own Features End-to-End: Design, build, and maintain features independently — from requirements to production — with minimal supervision.

2. Drive System Reliability: Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scalability gaps and address them systematically.

3. Debug Production Issues Independently: Investigate and resolve complex production issues using logs, metrics, and structured debugging approaches.

4. Design for Failure: Build systems that handle partial failures, retries, and third-party API unreliability correctly. Know when idempotency matters and apply it.

5. Code Review and Quality: Conduct and participate in code reviews, raise the quality bar, and help define good engineering practices within the team.

6. Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software that meets user needs.

7. Contribute to Architecture: Participate actively in design discussions, propose solutions to technical problems, and think through trade-offs clearly.

8. Continuous Improvement: Stay current with engineering best practices and apply that knowledge to improve the systems you own.

REQUIREMENTS

MUST-HAVE

- 3–4 years of full-time software engineering experience

- Hands-on experience with backend development in Java, Python, or Go

- Experience with frontend development using React or similar frameworks

- Strong unders