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# Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Product at GiveCampus

- **Company:** GiveCampus
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/givecampus/jobs/4422291009

## Job description

GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions. Trusted by millions of donors and 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools, our mission is to help advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education. At our current pace, we will facilitate $100 billion in charitable giving over the next decade–enough money to send more than 1 million students to college, tuition-free.

GiveCampus is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, but we’re also practitioners of [Sustainable Growth](https://go.givecampus.com/blog/reflecting-on-7-years-of-sustainable-growth/): we’ve made the [Inc. 5000 list](https://www.inc.com/profile/givecampus) of America's fastest-growing private companies each of the last five years and we’ve been profitable nine of the last 10. In 2025, we [celebrated a $140 million growth investment](https://go.givecampus.com/blog/our-second-tender-offer-in-three-years-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-givecampus/) that included a major liquidity event for GiveCampus employees–the second in less than three years.

Our purpose-driven team of 130+ is located in 30+ states across the US: team members work from anywhere they choose. We have a beautiful 12,000sf office in Washington, DC that is available for people to use whenever they want, and we regularly organize team meet-ups, visit partner institutions, and host retreats in various locations.

While we operate at meaningful scale, we’re still small relative to the commercial and social good opportunities in front of us. Every GiveCampus employee plays a meaningful role in shaping what comes next, and we're growing the team in support of our ambitious plans–including a $100 million investment in AI product development. If you believe in the transformative power of education and want to join a fast-growing, mission-driven company, you’ll fit right in.

Location: This is a remote-first role based in the U.S. While we embrace flexible, distributed work, we also value in-person connection. Team members are expected to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsites throughout the year.

## About the team

At GiveCampus, 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.

## About the role

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.

## What you'll do

- 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.

## What you bring

- 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.

Bonus points for

- 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.

## What you'll love about us

- 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. Ready to apply?

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At GiveCampus, we value diversity and we pledge to foster an environment of support, inclusivity, and learning, both on the job and throughout the application process. In this spirit, we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

GiveCampus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are not discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

If you feel like you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, please apply anyways. We know confidence gaps and imposter syndrome often get in the way of connecting with incredible people, and we don't want them to prevent us from meeting you.

## About GiveCampus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GiveCampus is the world’s leading fundraising platform built exclusively for nonprofit educational institutions, powering digital giving, donor engagement, and advancement workflows for schools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth-stage; raised $50M minority growth equity in 2022, followed by a $140M growth investment and second employee tender offer; remains founder-led and profitable)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, District of Columbia, USA (fully remote company)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed by name on the company’s about page; the leadership team includes former fundraisers from Stanford, Emory, UVA and engineers from Facebook, LinkedIn, Lyft.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Educational technology (EdTech) / Fundraising software for nonprofits
- **Target customers**: B2B — exclusively nonprofit educational institutions, including 1,500+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools
- **Mission / Purpose**: To advance the quality, affordability, and accessibility of education by helping schools raise more money, from more people, at a fraction of the cost of other fundraising methods.

## Products & Services
- **GiveCampus Fundraising Platform** (SaaS): An end-to-end solution covering the full donor lifecycle — identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Includes:
  - **Online Giving & Crowdfunding**: Delightful donor experiences with campaign advocacy tools.
  - **Event Registration & Ticketing**: Intuitive registration and ticketing for fundraising events.
  - **Donor Engagement (Email & Text)**: Multi-channel outreach to invite, solicit, thank, and steward donors.
  - **Frontline Fundraiser Tools**: Workflows for relationship management across the donor pyramid.
  - **Predictive Analytics & Audience Targeting**: AI/ML-powered predictions to identify who is most likely to give.
  - **Volunteer & Class Agent Management**: Tools to mobilize supporters and extend institutional reach.
- **Services & Expertise**: Professional services and strategic expertise to help schools optimize their fundraising operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric** (Private): Total funding of $190M+ ($50M in 2022 + $140M in subsequent growth investment)
- **Key Metric** (Platform Impact): More than $10 billion donated through the platform in 2025, across 1,500+ schools
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Silversmith Capital Partners (led $50M minority growth equity round in 2022)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Achieved 10x+ growth over the last few years; targeting 100x scale
  - Completed a $140M growth investment and second employee tender offer in three years — while remaining profitable and founder-led
  - Investing $100 million in product development
  - 20% conversion rate improvement for clients
  - Actively hiring across engineering, sales, data, and partner success roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Exclusive focus on education**: Unlike general fundraising platforms, GiveCampus builds software specifically and exclusively for nonprofit educational institutions, leading to deeper domain expertise and tailored features.
- **End-to-end platform**: Covers the entire donor pyramid from small gifts to major/transformative gifts, reducing the need for multiple point solutions.
- **Proven scale and trust**: Trusted by 1,500+ schools and has facilitated over $10B in donations.
- **Profitability + investment**: Profitable while still attracting significant growth capital, enabling aggressive product investment ($100M) without sacrificing financial discipline.
- **Data and AI advantage**: Uses predictive analytics and machine learning to help schools target the right donors with the right asks.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product investment**: $100M committed to product development to further enhance advancement outcomes for schools.
- **Scaling the team**: Hiring aggressively across engineering (Senior/Staff SWE, ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Engineering Manager), sales (Account Executives, Strategic Accounts), and partner success to support 10x to 100x growth.
- **Deepening platform connectivity**: Ensuring all solutions (giving, events, CRM, analytics) work together as a “force multiplier” rather than siloed tools.
- **Maintaining remote-first culture**: Fully remote company with a focus on hiring mission-driven talent regardless of location.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly contribute to making education more affordable and accessible by helping schools raise critical funds.
- **Fully remote**: Remote-first company with inclusive benefits; employees can work from anywhere in the US.
- **Competitive compensation**: Generous packages including equity (tender offer opportunities for liquidity as a private company).
- **Benefits**:
  - Platinum-level medical plans with very low or $0 deductibles, covering 100% preventive care
  - Dental and vision coverage
  - Dependent care FSA
  - Paid family leave (prenatal, bonding, caregiving)
  - 26+ PTO days including 7 public holidays and a company-wide week off (usually July 4th week)
  - Unlimited sick leave
  - Professional development budget (courses, training, conferences)
  - Mental health support via Spring Health
  - Company-sponsored outings
- **Culture**: Values diversity, kindness, ownership, and impact. Described as a place where curious, mission-driven people “move fast, solve hard problems, and celebrate wins together.”
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers from top tech companies (Facebook, LinkedIn, Lyft); focus on elegant code, user experience, and solving meaningful problems in education philanthropy.

## Sources
1. [go.givecampus.com](https://go.givecampus.com/) — Official website, product details, and platform metrics
2. [go.givecampus.com/about-us](https://go.givecampus.com/about-us/) — About Us, leadership, mission
3. [go.givecampus.com/about-us/careers](https://go.givecampus.com/about-us/careers/) — Careers page, benefits, and culture
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/givecampus](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/givecampus) — Current job openings and job descriptions
5. [builtin.com/company/givecampus](https://builtin.com/company/givecampus) — Built In profile with perks, culture, and office details

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