Senior Software Engineer (Fundraising) — Remote

About GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid. Our work has been covered by The Economist, NPR, TED, and The Washington Post. We are one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026.

Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth.

About this role

This role is about using engineering to support fundraising: delighting our donors; helping our fundraisers; getting donations recorded and safely started on their journey to our recipients; telling donors and the public about what happens to their gifts. A bit of website development. A lot of plumbing.

The good news about this position:

• You will make a difference to people in extreme poverty
• You will work independently, with few constraints
• You will work directly with lovely people from across our fundraising teams

The trade-offs:

1. There is only one other fundraising engineer and mostly you will be working on your own
2. Our technology is a mixture of boring (Laravel, PHP, plain JS, HTML and CSS) and legacy (Salesforce, Wordpress, wrangling CSV files sent by our partners)
3. We’re growing, but this is a role for someone who values depth and impact over a fast title ladder

The maybe good maybe bad news about the role depending on who you are:

• We are all in on AI where it allows us to get more $ to people in extreme poverty

This role is right for you if:

• You care about our mission
• You agree with our values
• You have the right to work in one of the countries we’re able to hire from
• You’re happy working remotely, and taking meetings across East Africa Time and US Eastern Time
• You are happy to travel to meet your colleagues in the US, Europe and Africa a few weeks a year
• You are fluent in English
• You have 4+ years of engineering experience
• You’re happy working autonomously: defining what needs doing, doing it, getting it tested and launched, fixing the bugs, and hustling to make progress every day
• You’re comfortable being on-call on peak donation days (Giving Tuesday and the last weeks of the year), including owning an incident: working out what matters, communicating with fundraisers, and debugging on legacy and others’ code, sometimes when no other engineers are available
• You are happy with our boring and legacy technologies (Laravel, PHP, plain JS, HTML, CSS, Salesforce, Wordpress, SQL, wrangling csv files etc). You don’t have to be experienced in all of them, but you do have to be genuinely happy to use them
• You are happy and skilled at working directly with non-engineers on messy, poorly defined, rapidly changing, sometimes boring tasks

Compensation

At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.

United States

• Base Salary: $181,130
• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$27,170, with potential for upside)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $208,300+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393

United Kingdom

• Base Salary: £124,370
• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~£18,656, with potential for upside)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £143,026+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760

Kenya

• Base Salary: $112,350
• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$16,853, with potential for upside)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $129,203+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $8,453

Why work at GiveDirectly?

• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement
• A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
• A competitive salary, including bonus
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Unlimited PTO (that we encourage staff to take!)
• Desk allowance and flexible work location

About this specific hiring process

• Take-home coding assignment
• Live Coding (60 mins)
• Systems Design (60 mins)
• Project Deep Dive + Behavioral (60 mins)