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.
Location: This is a remote-first role based in the U.S. While we embrace flexible, distributed work, we also value in-person connection. Team members are expected to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsites throughout the year.
Every donation that moves through the GiveCampus platform passes through the Online Giving team's code. This team owns the giving experience itself: mobile-first Giving Forms and Giving Pages, payment processing across Stripe, ACH, and Digital Wallets, recurring giving, Memberships, and the tools schools use to build and personalize their fundraising campaigns.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help lead that work. You'll take on larger projects within the pod, partner with the Product Manager and Designer to architect solutions and break down the work, and ship code that schools depend on to fund scholarships, programs, and facilities. It's full-stack work where correctness genuinely matters—donations have to balance to the penny—and where a conversion improvement on a giving form translates directly into dollars raised for education.
What you'll do- Build and maintain donor-facing giving forms, giving pages, and admin tools with a focus on conversion, accessibility, and mobile-first design.
- Build and harden payment flows—one-time, recurring, and memberships—across Stripe, ACH, and Digital Wallets, with strong reliability and observability.
- Work across the full stack, from UI components to backend services to database tuning and performance.
- Own projects end to end: architecture, coding, automated testing, deployment, and support in production.
- Partner closely with your pod's Product Manager, Designer, and fellow engineers to turn user needs and business goals into technical solutions.
- Mentor engineers earlier in their careers and help them grow in their craft.
- Contribute to team-wide initiatives including coding standards, technical debt refinement, and system security monitoring.
- Participate in interviewing and onboarding, and help us keep improving how we hire.
- Support the platform on a rotational basis, including team-based support and a paired 24/7 on-call rotation. Support work includes payment and deposit reconciliation, recurring-gift issues, reporting fixes, and partner configuration requests.
There's also an opportunity to step into a Tech Lead role, which means working with the PM on implementation trade-offs and work breakdown, proposing and validating the technical approach for the pod's roadmap, and helping set schedules and milestones.
What we're looking for- 6+ years of hands-on, real-world development experience.
- 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). Rails and React experience is preferred.
- System design experience, with a focus on solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye on scale and resilience.
- Strong SQL database skills: schema design, query optimization, and a real concern for data integrity.
- API design and integration experience with RESTful services.
- A test-driven mindset: unit, integration, and end-to-end testing as part of how you build.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Sharp debugging instincts, including in production, and the judgment to balance shipping quickly against long-term maintainability.
- Clear communication, comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and genuine ownership from conception through deployment and maintenance.
- A user-focused mindset: you think about how engineering decisions land for donors, school administrators, and fundraising results.
- Payments experience: Stripe or a comparable platform, ACH, digital wallets, webhooks, idempotency and retries, reconciliation, and testing against third-party services. This is the single strongest signal for this team.
- Deep expertise with Ruby on Rails and RSpec.
- Experience building high-conversion, consumer-facing checkout or donation flows.
- Experience on a fundraising, crowdfunding, fintech, or e-commerce product.
- Postgres administration experience, or familiarity with caching, networking, and triaging performance and stability issues.
- Experience shipping code that supports tens of thousands of users, including enterprise customers.
- A good eye for intuitive, user-friendly front-end design.
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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.
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