Senior Software Development Engineer

World Vision USA; Federal Way (WA); On-site; USD 114,600 - 166,750; Full time

Job summary

World Vision USA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to enhance its digital experiences. The role involves developing backend services, APIs, and integrations while ensuring the scalability and maintainability of solutions. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, experience in building cloud-based applications, and a solid grounding in engineering best practices. The position offers a salary range of $114,600 - $166,750 based on experience and geographic location.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building scalable, cloud-based applications.
• Proven ownership of services end-to-end from design to production support.
• Experience working on business-critical systems like payments.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services, APIs, and integrations.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members.

Skills

C#

.NET

Azure

APIs

Event-driven architectures

System-level thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science

8+ years of advanced application programming experience

Job description

World Vision is seeking a talented and motivated engineer who has a passion for quality software and will take our websites and web apps to the next level. As a Senior Software Development Engineer on our Enterprise Services team, you will develop the backend services, APIs, and integrations that power our digital experiences. The right candidate is always willing to collaborate and do what it takes to deliver highly scalable, reliable enterprise services. As a developer for World Vision, you are building the tools that will lead to a better life for thousands of children in the most vulnerable places around the world. At World Vision we are going to the ends of the earth, often where no one else goes, to pull up the roots of poverty and plant the seeds of change. Help us carry out our Christian organization's mission, vision, and strategies by building customer-facing websites, web apps, and other digital properties.

At a Glance

Role: Senior Software Development Engineer

Reports to: Software Development Manager

Location: Federal Way, Washington

Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field or equivalent (four years) relevant work experience. In addition to education or education equivalent, requires work experience including advanced application programming and analysis, 5-7 years. Experience designing, developing and testing applications using proven or emerging technologies required. Must have a broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and application architecture standards, and a demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes that span multiple business areas, identify and understand requirements, and develop alternate solutions.

Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the U.S.A for any employer.

The Job

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping, designing, and delivering scalable, high-quality software solutions that power World Vision’s core digital experiences. You will contribute to business-critical systems, including payment processing, e-commerce platforms, and middleware services that directly support mission delivery and revenue generation. You will take end-to-end ownership of services, ensuring solutions are thoughtfully designed, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and long-term technology strategy. Operating with a high degree of autonomy and influence, you will contribute to architectural decisions and help shape system design, engineering standards, and long-term technical direction. This role requires strong system-level thinking. You will look beyond individual components to understand cross-system dependencies, integration patterns, and long-term scalability across the broader platform. You will play a critical role in maintaining continuity and guiding the team through change. This includes quickly building context, exercising sound judgment, and providing technical leadership that stabilizes delivery and reinforces team confidence. You will also help elevate the team by fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and shared ownership, contributing to both the systems we build and the people we develop.

Responsibilities

Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life; actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and leadership of devotions); incorporate WV Core Values into decisions within scope of role.

Help carry out our Christian organization’s mission, vision, and strategies. Personify the ministry of World Vision by witnessing to Christ and ministering to others through life, deed, word and sign.

Application Team Support

• May participate in all project planning processes.
• May develop work plan timelines and manage workflows to meet project time frames.
• Works with team, Operations and IT leaders to mitigate risk and enable application retirement through strategies like “de-coupling” and phasing of work.
• Participate in planning sessions to define, plan, analyze, implement and operationalize enterprise data models.
• Participate in shaping application and integration strategy to leverage investments.
• Work with team and IT leaders to define, review and revise company’s standard development process (SDLC) in alignment with changes in business and IT objectives.
• May prepare and present training to IT staff, as needed.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to team members.
• Provide technical guidance or system process expertise.
• Guide a small team to create or redesign applications that contribute to business unit’s needs.
• Work closely with Architects and Technical program Managers to assure all systems are in line with long-term IT strategy.
• Lead application team in planning sessions to define, plan, analyze, implement and operationalize business requirements.
• Promote effective use of enterprise services by educating users on system functionality.

Application Development

• Evaluate existing applications and provide recommendations for improving application performance, stability, scalability, etc. resulting in proposals of options.
• Identify technical requirements.
• Code applications using a disciplined development process and in accord with World Vision's development process (SDLC).
• Develop, execute, and document test plans.
• May lead the deployment of new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment.
• Ensure software is production ready by following appropriate processes.
• Assist in the development of user guides and training documentation for systems.
• Evaluate new application packages and tools, performs research on best practices resulting in improvement.
• Provide recommendations for the solutions that result in appropriate business and technical constraint optimization.
• Adhere to standards and procedures.
• Create technical user stories and review technical user stories created by junior engineers.
• Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms outside the enterprise.

Application Maintenance

• Provide ongoing maintenance of applications.
• Lead review sessions where patterns of development and break/fix metrics are reviewed as part of standard process for optimizing IT development processes resulting in improved quality and lower operational cost.
• Provide Level 1 and 2 production support.
• Troubleshoot existing information systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develop solutions resulting in appropriate improvement.
• Document functions and changes to new or modified modules, test activities/results and other areas such as error handling and backup/recovery procedures.
• Review modules for quality assurance and checks compliance with application architecture standards and SLAs.

Work collaboratively with team members when assigned to work as a member of a team.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Maintain awareness of corporate goals, objectives, organizational announcements, and activities. Reference and follow organizational policies and procedures, seeking clarity as needed.

You Bring These Skills

Strong experience building scalable, cloud-based applications using technologies such as C#, .NET, and Azure, with a focus on APIs and event-driven architectures

Ability to design systems with a system-level mindset, considering integration, scalability, and long-term maintainability

Proven ownership of services end-to-end, from design through production support

Experience working on business-critical systems such as payments, e-commerce, or middleware platforms

Solid grounding in engineering best practices such as simplicity, modular design, and maintainability

Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and contribute to technical discussions and design decisions

Experience mentoring others and elevating engineering standards within a team

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity

Alignment with World Vision’s Christian mission and values

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or related field required. Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of degree based on relevancy to position. In addition to education or education equivalent, requires work experience including advanced application programming and analysis, 8 or more years. Requires work experience in leading projects, and work experience designing, developing, and testing applications using proven or emerging technologies. Must have a broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and application architecture standards, and a demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret very-complex problems or processes that span multiple business areas, identify and understand requirements and develop alternate solutions.

Salary & Benefits

Estimated hourly hiring range: $114,600 - $166,750

The posted hiring salary range reflects pay for U.S. locations and is determined using market data and internal compensation guidelines. Actual compensation may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, and applicable laws. A different range may apply in certain locations. For information about World Vision U.S’ comprehensive benefits package, please visit this link.