Senior Software Engineer (Platform) - Aplos

Aplos/Raisely/Keela; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aplos, Raisely, and Keela are uniting to transform nonprofit operations, seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform Team. In this remote role, you will design and develop scalable solutions while mentoring junior engineers. Known for innovative software services, the position promises growth in a supportive, diversity-focused environment.

Benefits

Generous PTO plans

Support for paid parental leave

Robust health coverage

4% RRSP match

Remote work options

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 in a Senior role.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns and cloud principles.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality software designs and architecture for core platform systems.
• Maintain scalable micro-services and APIs, while optimizing system performance.
• Share expertise and mentor feature teams.

Skills

NodeJS

Java

Microservices

Cloud Services

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About Aplos, Raisely and Keela:

We’re excited to share that Aplos, Raisely, and Keela have come together to form one unified company with a shared mission: to help nonprofit organizations thrive. While we continue to offer the products you know and love, we now operate as one team, dedicated to making nonprofit work easier, more impactful, and more sustainable.

Together, our combined expertise spans fundraising, donor management, financial tracking, and communications—offering a powerful suite of tools designed to reduce complexity so nonprofits can focus on what matters most: making a difference.

We’re one company with 3 products all servicing customers in the impact space. Working at Aplos, Raisely and Keela means that you have the opportunity to build one or across all our products.

We have a combination of merged teams and also teams dedicated to one specific product and you can find details about the work through our job descriptions under the “about the role” section.

About the role:

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team for Aplos. The ideal candidate will have proven Senior level experience in software development. They will utilize their skill set to collaborate with other senior technical leaders to design and build scalable distributed solutions, prioritizing performance, reliability and observability to ensure the customer’s user experience above all. This person will be joining the Platform Team, consisting of a team of engineers dedicated to creating and integrating a robust and scalable platform architecture to support our feature-based development teams. They will participate in design and build a strong foundation for our teams by providing shared services, frameworks and patterns that enable them to focus on delivering high-quality features to our users.

Your role:

• Collaborate to develop high-quality software designs and architecture for core platform systems
• Develop and maintain scalable and reliable micro-services and APIs
• Maintain and transition legacy monolith platform
• Ensure patterns for instrumentation and observability
• Monitor and optimize system performance
• Prioritize, set and meet commitments
• Share technical expertise, mentor and provide technical guidance to the feature teams
• Ensure compliance of design specifications and engineering standards via code reviews

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 in a Senior level role
• Mastery of high-level programming languages (NodeJS essential, Java beneficial)
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven programming, 12-factor app, reactive systems, C4 model diagrams, domain-driven design, etc.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and understanding of cloud design principles
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Comfortable working with Agile methodologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Benefits

• Salary – Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and geographic location.
• Remote work & leave – We’re a remote-first company. We also have generous PTO plans (4 weeks of vacation, volunteer time off, plus an office closure from Christmas to New Year’s Day!) and support paid parental leave (12 weeks).
• Health Coverage & RRSP - We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on RRSP.

If you have any questions or require accommodations in the interview process, please reach out

to [e-mail].

Aplos, Raisely and Keela's Commitment to Equal-Employment, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

We know with diversity comes strength. We strive to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.