Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Product

GiveCampus is a mission-driven fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help shape and build GC Gift Officer, owning problems from discovery through production, delivering full-stack features, collaborating with customers and cross-functional teams, and improving product reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Own problems from discovery through production. Help define the problem, shape the solution, implement and deploy it, and follow through on how it performs for customers
• Build across the stack. Deliver full-stack features and improvements, contributing wherever the problem takes you — from user interfaces and backend services to integrations, data, and infrastructure
• Help decide what we build and why. Work with product, design, and business unit teammates to evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions, and identify the useful next step
• Experiment, ship, and learn quickly. Use prototypes, incremental releases, customer feedback, and usage data to test ideas. Adjust or retire approaches when the evidence points elsewhere
• Stay close to customers. Join customer conversations and partner with onboarding and customer success teams to understand real workflows, investigate friction, and uncover opportunities
• Evolve a complex product. Make architecture decisions, simplify existing systems, and address technical constraints that slow delivery or limit what customers can accomplish
• Keep the product dependable. Investigate production issues and improve performance, reliability, security, and maintainability, using judgment to balance immediate needs with longer-term investments
• Make the team stronger. Share context, mentor teammates, contribute thoughtful code reviews, and help improve engineering practices and hiring as the business unit grows

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building software in startup-like environments
• Full-stack engineering experience: proficiency in JavaScript, Ruby, or Python; experience with Rails or a comparable web framework; and experience with React or another frontend framework, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Passion for building with users, not just for them—you're comfortable joining user interviews, shadowing onboarding, or jumping into metrics
• Clear, asynchronous communication skills — especially important in our distributed environment
• Proven ability to prioritize ruthlessly, ship continuously, and solve problems creatively
• Appetite for wearing many hats, operating with autonomy, and solving messy first-time problems
• Comfort and curiosity using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Code Interpreter, Claude, etc.) to boost speed, reduce toil, and elevate quality
• Experience building and maintaining production applications with Ruby on Rails
• Previous experience in a founding or early engineer role
• Familiarity with education, fundraising, or donor engagement platforms
• Exposure to low-code tools, internal platforms, or scrappy MVP development
• Past contributions to product design, GTM strategy, or customer success efforts
• Experience automating workflows or building with/around AI-powered systems