Senior Backend Engineer: Data Pipelines & CRM Integrations

GiveCampus; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GiveCampus is the world’s leading fundraising platform for educational institutions, backed by key investors and a fast-growing team. We’re hiring two Senior Software Engineers to build the bidirectional data pipelines and integrations that move millions of donor records every day.

This remote-first role is based in the U.S. with occasional on-sites and strong collaboration across product, data science, and CRM partners.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and running production backend systems with distributed ETL or sync pipelines.
• Experience with APIs you didn’t control, including auth, token expiry, rate limits, retries, and upsert semantics.
• Strong data modeling skills with external IDs and timezone-safe bulk writes.
• Clear, written communication for design docs and PR descriptions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS-based pipelines and bidirectional integrations.
• Design for idempotent processing and handle backpressure and rate limits.
• Contribute to AI agent integration and context file checks.
• Collaborate with CRM vendors and data partners; ship multiple times daily.
• Own large components from first month; ensure data flows into CRMs correctly.

Skills

ETL pipelines

Back-end systems

Distributed systems

API integrations

Data modeling

Clear communication

Tools

Ruby on Rails

OpenAPI

Sentry

New Relic

PostgreSQL

AWS

REST APIs

Job description

GiveCampus is the world’s leading fundraising platform for educational institutions, backed by key investors and a fast-growing team. We’re hiring two Senior Software Engineers to build the bidirectional data pipelines and integrations that move millions of donor records every day.

This remote-first role is based in the U.S. with occasional on-sites and strong collaboration across product, data science, and CRM partners.