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GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions, trusted by 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. The company is backed by Y Combinator, has been profitable 9 of the last 10 years, made the Inc. 5000 list for five consecutive years, and recently closed a $140 million growth investment with employee liquidity events.
You'll join a lean, autonomous business unit building GC Gift Officer, a product that helps professional fundraisers, student programs, and AI agents manage donor relationships and raise money for education. The product is rapidly gaining adoption and combines substantial technical depth with evolving product direction. Operating with startup-like urgency and adaptability, the team is working toward product-market fit.
In this role, you'll own problems end-to-end: from discovery and problem definition through implementation, deployment, and customer impact. You'll build full-stack features across the entire stack—frontend, backend services, integrations, data, and infrastructure. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams to understand problems, challenge assumptions, and ship improvements quickly. Your responsibilities include helping decide what to build and why, experimenting and learning rapidly through prototypes and customer feedback, staying close to customers through interviews and onboarding shadowing, evolving the product architecture, maintaining reliability and performance, and mentoring teammates as the business unit grows.
The company operates as a remote-first, distributed team across 30+ US states with a 12,000 sq ft office in Washington, DC available for optional use. Team members are expected to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsites throughout the year. The engineering organization values craft, autonomy, and impact, with a culture emphasizing deep work, clear priorities, and rolling up sleeves to get things done.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience building software in startup-like environments
- Full-stack engineering experience: proficiency in JavaScript, Ruby, or Python; experience with Rails or comparable web framework; experience with React or another frontend framework; PostgreSQL; RESTful APIs; cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Passion for building with users—comfortable with user interviews, onboarding shadowing, metrics analysis
- Clear, asynchronous communication skills (critical in distributed environment)
- Proven ability to prioritize ruthlessly, ship continuously, and solve problems creatively
- Comfort operating with autonomy, wearing many hats, and solving first-time problems
- Comfort and curiosity using AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Code Interpreter, Claude, etc.)
BONUS:
- Production experience with Ruby on Rails
- Founding or early engineer role experience
- Familiarity with education, fundraising, or donor engagement platforms
- Low-code tools, internal platforms, or scrappy MVP development experience
- Product design, GTM strategy, or customer success contributions
- Workflow automation or AI-powered systems experience
