--- title: 'Software Engineer, Online Giving at GiveCampus' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-online-giving-givecampus-united-states-r5tec38v3w44' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-17' --- # Software Engineer, Online Giving at GiveCampus - **Company:** GiveCampus - **Location:** United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/givecampus/jobs/4409577009 ## 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 role Every donation that moves through the GiveCampus platform passes through the Online Giving team's code. This team owns the giving experience itself: mobile-first Giving Forms and Giving Pages, payment processing across Stripe, ACH, and Digital Wallets, recurring giving, Memberships, and the tools schools use to build and personalize their fundraising campaigns. We're looking for a Software Engineer to help build that work. You'll own features and small-to-medium projects within the pod, partner with your Tech Lead, Product Manager, and Designer to design solutions and break down the work, and ship code that schools depend on to fund scholarships, programs, and facilities. It's full-stack work where correctness genuinely matters—donations have to balance to the penny—and where a conversion improvement on a giving form translates directly into dollars raised for education. Right now the team is migrating ACH payments to modern Stripe APIs, building a new block-based, API-driven campaign builder, growing Memberships out of beta, and shipping Smart Ask Amounts personalization that helps schools ask each donor for the right amount. Online Giving is one of four cross-functional product teams in Engineering. We run Agile, mostly Scrum with one-week sprints, and we ship to production multiple times a day. ## Our stack - Ruby on Rails - React - Postgres and Redis - Stripe, Spreedly, and PayPal for payment processing - AWS with ArgoCD and Kubernetes for hosting and application management ## What you'll do - Build and maintain donor-facing giving forms, giving pages, and admin tools with a focus on conversion, accessibility, and mobile-first design. - Build and harden payment flows—one-time, recurring, and memberships—across Stripe, ACH, and Digital Wallets, with reliability and observability in mind. - Work across the full stack, from UI components to backend services to database queries and performance. - Own features and small-to-medium projects end to end: technical design and work breakdown, coding, automated testing, deployment, and support in production. - Partner closely with your pod's Tech Lead, Product Manager, Designer, and fellow engineers to turn user needs and business goals into technical solutions, and speak up early when you spot blockers or trade-offs. - Participate actively in sprint planning, story scoping, and estimation, including thorough review of acceptance criteria. - Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code, and give and receive thoughtful code review. - Contribute to team initiatives like technical debt refinement and coding standards, and help teammates get unstuck. - Participate in interviewing and onboarding as the team grows. - Support the platform on a rotational basis, including team-based support and a paired 24/7 on-call rotation. Support work includes payment and deposit reconciliation, recurring-gift issues, reporting fixes, and partner configuration requests. This role sits on a clear growth path. Engineers at this level who take on larger projects, deepen their architectural judgment, and start mentoring others grow into Senior Software Engineer roles on the team. ## What we're looking for - 3+ years of hands-on, real-world development experience. - Full-stack proficiency: a modern front-end framework (React or Vue.js) plus a backend language and framework (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, or similar). Rails and React experience is preferred. - Experience contributing to technical design discussions and breaking down features into well-scoped, incrementally shippable work. - Solid SQL database skills: schema design, query writing and optimization, and a real concern for data integrity. - Experience building and integrating with RESTful APIs. - A test-driven mindset: unit, integration, and end-to-end testing as part of how you build. - Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar) and CI/CD pipelines. - Good debugging instincts, including in production, and the judgment to balance shipping quickly against long-term maintainability. - Clear communication, comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and genuine ownership of your work from conception through deployment and maintenance. - A user-focused mindset: you think about how engineering decisions land for donors, school administrators, and fundraising results. Bonus points if you have - Payments experience: Stripe or a comparable platform, ACH, digital wallets, webhooks, idempotency and retries, reconciliation, or testing against third-party services. This is the single strongest signal for this team. - Experience with Ruby on Rails and RSpec. - Experience building consumer-facing checkout or donation flows. - Experience on a fundraising, crowdfunding, fintech, or e-commerce product. - Familiarity with caching, observability tooling, or triaging performance and stability issues. - A good eye for intuitive, user-friendly front-end design. Ready to apply? Be sure to keep an eye on your spam and promotions boxes in case our emails end up there! 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. 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