СШАSenior Software Engineer, Emerging Product
1 нед. назад
148k–190k USD / годСШАSeniorRemote
full-stackproduct-market fit
Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving a new product for managing donor relationships and fundraising in education, working within a startup-like business unit.
О компании
- At , we build high-impact teams that operate like a startup within the startup—nimble, empowered, and laser-focused on solving specific challenges with real urgency and measurable outcomes. This role is part of one such dedicated Business Unit (BU): a lean, entrepreneurial team pushing a brand-new product from zero to one.
- A mission that matters: helping schools fund futures.
- An engineering org that values craft, autonomy, and impact.
- The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of product incubation inside a mission-driven company.
- Competitive compensation, vacation, wellness benefits, and more.
- A culture that values deep work, clear priorities, and rolling up our sleeves to get things done.
- Ready to build something that matters from the ground up? Apply now—we can’t wait to meet you.
Обязанности
- We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help shape GC Gift Officer, a product that helps professional fundraisers, student programs, and AI agents at schools manage donor relationships and raise more money for education. Used by a rapidly growing number of schools, it combines substantial technical depth with a product direction that’s still evolving. Our small, autonomous business unit operates with the urgency and adaptability of an early-stage startup as we work toward product-market fit.
- You’ll help determine what we build and take responsibility for making it work. That means working closely with product, design, and customer-facing teammates to understand problems, challenge assumptions, and ship useful improvements quickly. Your work might involve building a full-stack feature, prototyping an idea, untangling a difficult production issue, or joining a customer call to understand where a workflow falls short.
- We especially value startup and early-stage experience: you’ve worked with incomplete information, taken ownership beyond a narrowly defined role, and changed direction as you learned. You’re comfortable getting deep into an existing system and resourceful about finding a path forward. You bring the judgment to know when a focused experiment will answer the question and when reliability, performance, or maintainability needs deeper investment.
- This is an opportunity to influence both the software and the business it supports. You’ll stay close to customers, see the results of your work, and help a small team turn early adoption into lasting product-market fit.
- Own problems from discovery through production. Help define the problem, shape the solution, implement and deploy it, and follow through on how it performs for customers.
- Build across the stack. Deliver full-stack features and improvements, contributing wherever the problem takes you — from user interfaces and backend services to integrations, data, and infrastructure.
- Help decide what we build and why. Work with product, design, and business unit teammates to evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions, and identify the useful next step.
- Experiment, ship, and learn quickly. Use prototypes, incremental releases, customer feedback, and usage data to test ideas. Adjust or retire approaches when the evidence points elsewhere.
- Stay close to customers. Join customer conversations and partner with onboarding and customer success teams to understand real workflows, investigate friction, and uncover opportunities.
- Evolve a complex product. Make architecture decisions, simplify existing systems, and address technical constraints that slow delivery or limit what customers can accomplish.
- Keep the product dependable. Investigate production issues and improve performance, reliability, security, and maintainability, using judgment to balance immediate needs with longer-term investments.
- Make the team stronger. Share context, mentor teammates, contribute thoughtful code reviews, and help improve engineering practices and hiring as the business unit grows.
Требования
- 8+ years of experience building software in startup-like environments.
- Full-stack engineering experience: proficiency in JavaScript, Ruby, or Python; experience with Rails or a comparable web framework; and experience with React or another frontend framework, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.).
- Passion for building with users, not just for them—you’re comfortable joining user interviews, shadowing onboarding, or jumping into metrics.
- Clear, asynchronous communication skills — especially important in our distributed environment.
- Proven ability to prioritize ruthlessly, ship continuously, and solve problems creatively.
- Appetite for wearing many hats, operating with autonomy, and solving messy first-time problems.
- Comfort and curiosity using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Code Interpreter, Claude, etc.) to boost speed, reduce toil, and elevate quality.
Будет плюсом
- Experience building and maintaining production applications with Ruby on Rails.
- Previous experience in a founding or early engineer role.
- Familiarity with education, fundraising, or donor engagement platforms.
- Exposure to low-code tools, internal platforms, or scrappy MVP development.
- Past contributions to product design, GTM strategy, or customer success efforts.
- Experience automating workflows or building with/around AI-powered systems.