Staff Engineer

Givebutter is the most-loved nonprofit fundraising and CRM platform, empowering millions of changemakers to raise more, pay less, and give better. Nonprofits use Givebutter to replace multiple tools so they can launch fundraisers and events, use donation forms and donor management (CRM), send emails and text blasts—all in one place. Use of the Givebutter platform is completely free with a 100% transparent tip-or-fee model.

Givebutter has been certified as a Great Place to Work® every year since 2021, and is the #1 rated nonprofit software company on G2 across multiple categories.

Our mission is to empower the changemaker in all of us. We believe giving should be fun, so you’ll want to do it again, and we also believe that work should be fun, so that you’ll have the greatest impact. We are excited to hear from talented people who want to work with other talented people in making the world a butter place—and have fun along the way. 

We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help build and evolve the systems that keep Givebutter safe, fraud detection, risk decisioning, abuse prevention, and the internal tooling our operations team needs to investigate and act at scale. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You'll write code, design systems, debug production issues, and release new features. You'll also have the opportunity to work closely with stakeholders across the company to help set the technical direction for Trust & Safety, and partner teams throughout Givebutter to prioritize and execute on it.

You’ll work day-to-day on our Payments and Trust & Safety team and collaborate closely with our engineering, operations, product and leadership team to solve ambiguous risk challenges into concrete solution.

This role spans the full breadth of how we fight fraud, from building decision systems and investigation tools to hardening our payment infrastructure and working with operations on process. It's as much about understanding the business as it is about writing great code.

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• Experience with PHP/Laravel, or a similar MVC framework like Ruby on Rails, Django, etc. Laravel experience is a plus, but strong fundamentals in any comparable framework translate well.

• Experience leading projects or small teams as a senior IC (e.g., technical lead/staff-level leadership): setting direction, unblocking others, and mentoring.

• Experience with React/TypeScript on the frontend.

• Familiarity with Stripe's APIs, payments, disputes, Radar, or similar payment processor integrations.

• Experience building tools for operations or support teams (internal tooling, case management, review queues).

• Background in fundraising, nonprofit tech, or marketplace platforms where T&S challenges involve campaign legitimacy, donor protection, or platform abuse.

• Exposure to event-driven architectures (CDC, Kafka, event sourcing) for real-time risk signal processing.

• Experience working in AWS (EKS/Kubernetes, RDS, etc.).

Benefits

Below is a high-level outline of our standard interview process

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   Recruiter Screen: A 30-minute conversation to learn more about your background, walk through the role, and ensure mutual alignment on expectations, values, and logistics.

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   Hiring Manager Interview: A deeper dive into your relevant experience, skillset, and working style. This is your first opportunity to connect directly with the person who may be your future manager.

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   Assessment (technical or non-technical): This stage will vary based on the role. It could involve a live coding session, case study, or take-home project. Some roles may include two parts to this stage to evaluate both practical skills and problem-solving approaches

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   Values Interview: A conversation with team members focused on how you align with our core values and leadership principles.

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   References: We connect with a few folks you’ve worked closely with to get a better picture of your working style and impact.

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   Offer: If all goes well, we’ll move to the offer stage!

Please note, we will have an AI note-taking tool join most of our interviews.

Hi potential new butterslice! A recent study from LinkedIn showed that most women apply to jobs only when they meet 100% of the requirements, whereas men will hit the apply button if they hit 60%. Givebutter is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. So to the women and nonbinary folks out there feeling unsure if you're a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply!