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Senior Software Engineer- Finance & Business Systems

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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 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.

Our purpose-driven team of 130+ is located in 30+ states across the US: team members work from anywhere they choose. We have a beautiful 12,000sf office in Washington, DC that is available for people to use whenever they want, and we regularly organize team meet-ups, visit partner institutions, and host retreats in various locations.

While we operate at meaningful scale, we’re still small relative to the commercial and social good opportunities in front of us. 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. If you believe in the transformative power of education and want to join a fast-growing, mission-driven company, you’ll fit right in.

Responsibilities

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→Working on the full stack, from UI elements to backend services including getting into database tuning and performance.
→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.
→Being adaptable - working closely with and supporting your teammates in a fast-paced, agile development environment (both within your pod and across Engineering as a whole).
→Tackling a wide variety of technical issues throughout our stack and contributing to all parts of the code base and shared documentation.
→Contributing to team-wide initiatives including coding standards, tech debt refinement and system security monitoring.
→Participating in the interviewing and onboarding new team members and assisting in the refinement of our interviewing processes.
→Participating in the support of the platform on a rotational basis (team-based support and paired, on-call rotation).

Strong experience with Ruby on Rails or another mature MVC framework (e.g., Django). System design experience with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye towards scale and resilience.
Comfort working across the stack, including backend services, databases, and light frontend work.
Experience with modern front-end frameworks like React and Vue.js.
SQL database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite).
Experience with deployments to Heroku, AWS, or similar.
Experience balancing swift and long-term code maintainability.
5 plus years of hands-on development experience.
Comfort working with financial concepts such as margins, COGS, pricing, revenue recognition, or unit economics (direct experience or strong interest).
Experience building systems where correctness, auditability, and explainability matter.
Ability to work with non-technical stakeholders and translate ambiguous business questions into concrete technical work.
Ability to handle ambiguity and shaping the problem, not just the solution.

Nice to Have

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Deep expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and RSpec.
Experience with Postgres database administration.
Shipped code that has supported tens of thousands of users, including enterprise/business customers.
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.
Experience working in a start up environment
A good eye for intuitive, user-friendly front end design.
Experience building internal tools or platforms used by Finance or Operations teams

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At GiveCampus, we value diversity and we pledge to foster an environment of support, inclusivity, and learning, both on the job and throughout the application process. In this spirit, we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

GiveCampus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are not discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

If you feel like you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, please apply anyways. We know confidence gaps and imposter syndrome often get in the way of connecting with incredible people, and we don't want them to prevent us from meeting you.