Senior Software Engineer, Online Giving (General Interest)

• Moving payment flows onto modern processor APIs, including our ACH migration to current Stripe APIs.
• Building and hardening one-time, recurring, and membership payments with idempotency, retries, and webhook handling that hold up under giving-day traffic.
• Making payouts, deposits, and reconciliation reliable and explainable, so a school's finance team can trace every dollar from donor to bank account.
• Reducing failed and declined payments, handling disputes and refunds cleanly, and helping us spot fraud and card testing early.
• Keeping our payments footprint secure and compliant as we add processors and payment methods.

• Building donor-facing Giving Forms and Giving Pages with a focus on conversion, accessibility, and mobile-first design.
• Shipping our new block-based, API-driven campaign builder and growing Memberships.
• Bringing personalization like Smart Ask Amounts into the giving flow, so schools can ask each donor for the right amount.

• Owning projects end to end: architecture, code, automated tests, deployment, and support in production.
• Partnering with your pod's Product Manager, Designer, and fellow engineers to turn Partner needs into technical plans you can ship incrementally.
• Joining a team-based support rotation and a paired 24/7 on-call rotation, including payment and deposit reconciliation, recurring-gift issues, and Partner configuration requests.
• Mentoring engineers earlier in their careers and helping us keep improving how we build and how we hire.

• Payments you can trust on the busiest day of the year. Giving days spike traffic for hours at a time, and your flows process every gift once, recover from processor hiccups, and alert the team before a Partner notices.
• Money that reconciles. Every gift, fee, refund, and payout lines up from the donor's receipt to the school's deposit, and support tickets about missing or mismatched funds go down.
• Forms that convert. Changes you ship to giving forms and checkout move completion rates in the right direction, and you can show the numbers.
• Systems the team can grow on. You leave payment and giving code better documented, better tested, and easier for the next engineer to change.

• 6+ years of hands-on, production software development.
• Full-stack proficiency: a modern front-end framework (React or Vue.js) plus a backend language and framework (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, or similar).
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills, with a real concern for data integrity.
• System design experience, with a focus on solutions you can ship incrementally while keeping an eye on scale and resilience.
• RESTful API design and experience integrating with third-party services you don't control.
• A test-driven mindset and sharp debugging instincts, including in production.
• Startup-ready ownership: you're comfortable with ambiguity, set your own direction, and carry work from idea through maintenance.
• Clear written communication for a distributed team.

• Payments experience: Stripe or a comparable processor, ACH, card networks, digital wallets, webhooks, idempotency and retries, disputes and refunds, and reconciliation. This is the single strongest signal for this team.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and RSpec.

• Payouts, ledgers, or double-entry accounting systems.
• Fraud prevention, risk scoring, or PCI scope reduction.
• Running more than one payment processor, or migrating between processor APIs.
• High-conversion consumer checkout or donation flows.
• Experience on a fundraising, crowdfunding, fintech, or e-commerce product.
• Postgres performance tuning, caching, or triaging stability issues at scale.
• Experience making coding agents a reliable part of a team's workflow.

We hire for this team at IC4 and IC5. At IC4, you'll own major features and payment flows with design input from the team. At IC5, you'll own the architecture of a system end to end, set technical direction for the pod's roadmap, and mentor others—and there's room to step into a Tech Lead role. If you're not sure which fits, apply and we'll figure it out together.

• Ruby on Rails and React
• Postgres and Redis
• Stripe, Spreedly, and PayPal for payment processing
• AWS with ArgoCD and Kubernetes for hosting and application management

• You sweat the details where money is involved, and you'd rather prove a fix with a test than hope it works.
• You think about how every decision lands for donors, school administrators, and the finance staff reconciling the books.
• 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.

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