Senior Software Engineer at GiveDirectly (GD)

Job Details

• We’re looking for exceptional talent to grow our collaborative, diverse team. Joining GiveDirectly provides the opportunity to work alongside individuals who come from 21 different countries and speak 69 different languages.
• We’re actively working toward an equitable and inclusive environment for all team members, and seek candidates who will bring diverse perspectives and experiences to our organization.
• We recruit from organizations across all industries: our team has hailed from sectors including start-ups, government, consultancies, investment banks, and nonprofits.
• Across our global offices, our culture is candid, analytical, non-hierarchical, and fast-paced. We value ability, adaptability, and willingness to learn. We offer competitive salary and benefits, as well as performance-based bonuses.

Role Overview

• Technology will play a critical role in enabling the next generation of cash delivery: from identifying recipients without needing to knock on doors to a modern payments infrastructure that gets dollars in recipients’ hands faster and more scalably.
• We are seeking a software engineer to help design and build our systems for identifying, enrolling, and paying recipients. 
• You’ll have the opportunity to wear many hats, from driving architecture decisions to building out robust test infrastructure. Your work will directly help scale GiveDirectly’s capacity to give cash to more people, across more countries, more quickly, while maintaining a high quality recipient experience.  
• This role will report to the Director of Field Technology and work closely with Technical Program Management and Data teams, as well as cross-functionally with engineers on the Growth team. 

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and test software systems for enrolling and paying recipients, including API integrations with payments providers and other external systems
• Contribute to deployment infrastructure and devOps
• Debug issues across multiple layers of our stack.
• Design, build, and run tools and automations used by the operations team and data associates to launch programs across at least seven countries.
• Mentor data associates in Python automation.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems
• Experience with backend architecture: databases, cloud services, APIs
• Experience building infrastructure to deploy software.
• Experience with strongly-typed, object-oriented programming such as Java, C#, Go, etc. and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, etc.
• Bonus: experience with payments/financial software and/or experience with microservice/serverless architecture.
• Strong analytical skills and communication - able to break down complex problems, describe trade-offs, and communicate recommended next steps
• Alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.

Why Work at GiveDirectly?
At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:

• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement 
• A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
• A competitive salary
• A monthly benefits allowance that covers Health, Dental, and Vision monthly premiums.
• Unlimited PTO (that we encourage staff to take!).
• Desk allowance and flexible work location.