Senior Software Engineer, Advancement Services

• Pipelines at real volume. 6+ years building and running production backend systems, including a distributed ETL or sync pipeline that moved tens of millions of records. You can explain how your consumers handled redelivery, backpressure, and replay.
• Third-party integration scar tissue. You've built against APIs you didn't control and handled auth, token expiry in the middle of long pagination, rate limits, retries, and upsert semantics. You know what breaks when the other system changes without warning.
• Careful data modeling. You think in external IDs, timezone-safe bulk writes, and safe schema changes to busy core tables. Data integrity matters to you because someone on the other end reconciles every record.
• Clear, written communication. You write design docs and PR descriptions that a distributed team can act on without a meeting, and you're comfortable explaining a sync failure to a school's IT staff.

• AI-native, with receipts. You've made coding agents more reliable for a team by writing context files, building skills, or adding checks and evals. You can tell us about a time you didn't trust an agent's output and the check you added afterward.
• Infrastructure you can operate. You ship on AWS (or an equivalent cloud) with infrastructure as code, and you've owned the deploy, monitoring, and on-call side of what you built.

• Experience integrating with fundraising or nonprofit CRMs: Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT or its SKY API, Salesforce (including Ascend or Affinaquest), or school systems like Ellucian, Veracross, or Slate.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and RSpec.
• You've built a public or partner-facing API product with OpenAPI documentation.
• You've worked in higher education advancement, nonprofit fundraising, or a nearby domain.

You don't need to know advancement data on day one. In your first 90 days, you'll learn Raiser's Edge NXT, the Blackbaud SKY API, and the Salesforce products we support. You'll also learn the building blocks of school fundraising data:

• Constituents: anyone a school tracks, such as alumni, parents, and donors.
• Hard and soft credits: who gave a gift, and who else gets recognized for it, like a spouse or a company that matched it.
• Recurring gifts and designations: gifts that repeat on a schedule, and the fund each gift goes to, such as financial aid or athletics.
• Opportunities and assignments: large gifts a fundraiser is working toward, and which fundraiser owns each donor relationship.
• Events: reunions, galas, and other gatherings, along with who registered and attended.

You'll get to know our pipeline codebase and our tools (Metabase for reporting, New Relic, and the Rails console). If you come from another backend framework, you'll pick up Rails along the way.

• Ruby on Rails and React
• Postgres and Redis
• AWS, including SQS, Aurora, S3, and EKS
• REST APIs documented with OpenAPI, plus the Blackbaud SKY API, Salesforce, and other CRM APIs
• Sentry and New Relic for observability
• AI coding agents across the workflow, with shared context files, skills, and evals

• You go deep on the other system's quirks. You'd rather read the SKY API changelog than guess at why a sync broke, and you want to know how a system got the way it is.
• You use AI agents by default and verify what they produce. You've built the checks that catch when they're wrong.
• You write it down. Design docs, PR descriptions, and incident notes that let a distributed team act without a meeting.
• Strong opinions, loosely held. You argue hard for your approach, then commit fully once the team decides.
• You care about the people on the other end: the advancement services staff reconciling every record, the fundraisers relying on the data, and the donors behind it all.

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