Remote Senior Backend Engineer – Data Pipelines & AI

GiveCampus; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GiveCampus is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Advancement Services to own and scale data pipelines and CRM integrations. You will build and maintain AWS-based ETL flows that move tens of millions of records, design AI agent checks, and collaborate across Product, Success, and Data teams.

This remote-first role supports a distributed, mission-driven environment. You will work with Ruby on Rails, OpenAPI-documented APIs, and modern cloud tools to ensure reliable donor data flows across

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and running production backend systems with high data volume.
• Experience with distributed ETL/sync pipelines and data integrity.
• Strong API integration experience across CRMs and data sources.
• Proficient in Ruby on Rails and Rails testing (RSpec).

Responsibilities

• Design and ship AWS-based pipelines with idempotent consumers.
• Ensure scalable data syncs across CRMs like Raiser's Edge NXT and Salesforce variants.
• Develop AI agent context, checks, and guardrails for safe data handling.
• Own large components from early on and guide engineering practices.
• Collaborate with PM, Partner Success, Operations, Data Science, and vendor teams.

Skills

Distributed ETL

Data modeling

API integrations

Rails backend

OpenAPI

AI agent checks

SRE concepts

Tools

Ruby on Rails

RSpec

AWS

SQS

Aurora

S3

EKS

PostgreSQL

Redis

OpenAPI

Sentry

New Relic

Job description

GiveCampus is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Advancement Services to own and scale data pipelines and CRM integrations. You will build and maintain AWS-based ETL flows that move tens of millions of records, design AI agent checks, and collaborate across Product, Success, and Data teams.

This remote-first role supports a distributed, mission-driven environment. You will work with Ruby on Rails, OpenAPI-documented APIs, and modern cloud tools to ensure reliable donor data flows across