Senior Software Engineer (Fundraising) — Remote New

GiveDirectly, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 208,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

GiveDirectly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Fundraising) to work remotely with overlap to East Africa Time and US Eastern Time. You will contribute to fundraising systems, donor experience, and essential data pipelines while maintaining legacy platforms.

The role emphasizes autonomy, impact, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The position requires at least 4 years of engineering experience, experience with Laravel/PHP/JS, and comfort partnering with non-engineers on

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Must overlap with East Africa Time and US Eastern Time by 3+ hours.
• Comfort with legacy and boring technologies (Laravel, PHP, JS, HTML/CSS, Salesforce, Wordpress, SQL).

Responsibilities

• Support fundraising engineering to delight donors and aid fundraisers.
• Record donations and safely start journeys to recipients.
• Handle website plumbing and integration tasks across platforms.

Skills

4+ years engineering

Remote work

Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Laravel

Tools

Laravel

PHP

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

Salesforce

Wordpress

SQL

CSV files

Job description

Senior Software Engineer (Fundraising) — Remote

Remote

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, with the research to back it up. 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. Curious about what it's really like to work here? Read our values and hear from the people who do . If they resonate, this could be a great fit!

Location: This role is fully remote but you must overlap with East Africa Time and US Eastern Time (8am-6pm) by at least 3 hours. As an example, 6PM East Africa Time is 11AM US Eastern time in the summer and 10AM in the winter. In practice, if you are in the Eastern US timezone, that means being regularly available for 8AM meetings and some 7AM ones. We know people have commitments like school drop-offs, so you’re encouraged to set a schedule that works for you -- as long as there’s sufficient overlap with the team. Please note that we can only employ people in certain places at the moment, so it's worth checking our current list of eligible countries to see if yours is included. If you're based elsewhere, it's not an automatic no, but do flag it early with your recruiter.We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.

About this role:

Are you an experienced engineer at the stage of your career where, above all, you want to do good?

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:

• There is only one other fundraising engineer and mostly you will be working on your own
• 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)
• 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

If you want a role where you will be part of a bigger engineering team, working in Python or working on more complex tasks, then please take a look at our other engineering roles .

• You have the right to work in one of the countries we're able to hire from (you can check the current list here ).
• 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 (many engineers are not…).
• 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. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.

Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.

United States

• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$27,170, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be ~$31,789 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $208,300+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393

United Kingdom

• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~£18,656, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be ~£21,827 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £143,026+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760
• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$16,853, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be ~$19,717 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $129,203+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $8,453

This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.

Why work at GiveDirectly?