<div>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.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>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!<br><br></div><div><strong><br>Location: </strong><strong><em>This role is fully remote but must be available to meet with East Africa timezone by at least 2 hours a couple of times a week. </em></strong><em>We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.<br></em><br></div><div><strong><br>About this role<br></strong><br></div><div>Technology plays a central role in how GiveDirectly delivers cash—whether that’s identifying recipients in hard-to-reach places, sending payments quickly after disasters, or powering the platforms our donors use to give.<br><br></div><div>We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build the systems behind this work. Our engineering team still operates like a startup within GiveDirectly—lean, fast-moving, and high-autonomy. You’ll lean into product thinking, help shape the roadmap, and collaborate closely across disciplines to solve real-world problems. The specific team you’ll join is still being finalized—it could be:<br><br></div><ul><li>Our <strong>Programs Engineering</strong> team (getting cash in the hands of people experiencing extreme poverty),</li><li>Our <strong>Fundraising Engineering</strong> team (raising more money for recipients), or</li><li>Our <strong>International Rapid Response</strong> team (getting cash to disaster-affected communities within 5 days of a crisis—anywhere in the world)</li></ul><div><br>No matter the team, you’ll play a central role in scaling our impact: getting more money, to more people, more efficiently.</div><div><br>This is a hands-on role with real ownership. You’ll help shape architecture, ship production-ready code, and work side-by-side with teammates across product, data, and operations. We’re looking for someone excited to wear multiple hats, move quickly, and define what great engineering looks like in a mission-driven org<br><br></div><div><strong>Level: Senior Software Engineer<br></strong><br></div><div><strong>Travel Requirement: </strong>Must be able to travel ~1-2 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats or field visits.<br><br></div><div><strong>What you’ll do:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Design and build scalable, reliable systems that power our core operations—whether that’s donor platforms, systems that deliver payments directly to recipients, or crisis response tools reaching hundreds of thousands of people globally.</li><li>Own end-to-end development of new features and services, from architecture through deployment and monitoring.</li><li>Improve our developer workflows by strengthening CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual steps, and increasing test coverage.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, ops, data) to understand real-world needs and ship tools that directly support program delivery in the field.</li><li>Debug and resolve production issues across our stack, with a focus on root cause analysis and long-term fixes.</li><li>Advocate for sustainable engineering practices, including testing, documentation, and monitoring</li><li>Help shape our tech roadmap with an eye toward scale, maintainability, and recipient experience</li></ul><div><strong><br>What you’ll bring:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values</strong> and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.</li><li>Language Requirement: English</li><li>4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems</li><li>Experience with backend architecture: databases, cloud services, APIs</li><li>Experience building infrastructure to deploy software</li><li>Experience with strongly-typed, object-oriented programming such as Java, C#, Go, etc. and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, etc.</li><li>High degree of ownership and autonomy - you proactively advocate for ways to improve systems and constantly leave our codebase in a better state than you found it</li><li>Strong analytical skills and communication - able to break down complex problems, describe technical trade-offs, and collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. technical program managers, product managers)</li><li>Bonus: Experience using Python and AWS in a production environment</li><li>Bonus: experience with payments/financial software and/or experience with microservice/serverless architecture</li></ul><div><strong><br>Compensation<br></strong><br></div><div><br>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 <strong>here</strong>.<br><br></div><div><br>Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.</div><div><strong><br>United States<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $157,500</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~$23,625, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $27,641 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $181,125+</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> $21,393</li></ul><div><strong><br>United Kingdom<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> £108,150</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~£16,223, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be £18,981 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £124,373+</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> £2,760</li></ul><div><strong><br>Kenya<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $91,500</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~$13,725, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $16,063 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $105,225+</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> $8,453</li></ul><div><br>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.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong><br>Why work at GiveDirectly?<br></strong><br></div><div><br>At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:<br><br></div><ul><li>A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement&nbsp;</li><li>A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow</li><li>A competitive salary, including bonus</li><li>A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)</li><li>Unlimited PTO (that we encourage staff to take!)</li><li>Desk allowance and flexible work location</li></ul><div><strong><br>About this specific hiring process<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Take-home coding assignment</li><li>Live Coding (60 mins)</li><li>Systems Design (60 mins)</li><li>Project Deep Dive + Behavioral (60 mins)</li></ul><div><br>*It’s possible that there will be adjustments to this interview process. Any changes will be communicated to you during the process.</div>

Senior Software Engineer

<div><strong>Help Us Build the Relational Operating System for Churches and Ministries</strong></div><div><br>Most churches serve hundreds, if not thousands, of people.</div><div><br>Yet, very few people in these communities feel truly known.</div><div><br>People drift away from faith communities every day not because they reject belief — but because nobody notices they disappeared.</div><div><br>At Called, we’re building the relational operating system for churches and ministries.</div><div><br>Our platform helps ministry leaders know their people, build stronger community, and foster deeper discipleship throughout the week — not just on Sundays.</div><div><br>We’re a small, high-trust team building meaningful software with modern tools, AI-assisted workflows, and a strong sense of mission. We move fast, care deeply about product quality, and believe technology should strengthen human relationships, not replace them.</div><div><br>If you want to work on another ad platform or optimize clicks, this probably isn’t for you.</div><div><br>If you want to help rebuild community in a disconnected world, keep reading.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>About the Role</strong></div><div>We are looking for an Associate Full Stack Product Engineer with a frontend focus to help build and maintain thoughtful, reliable, and easy-to-use product experiences across the Called platform.</div><div><br></div><div>This role will spend much of its time building user-facing features using React, React Query, TypeScript, and modern frontend best practices while also contributing to backend APIs, services, and data models using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.</div><div><br></div><div>This is an ideal role for someone who has already built and shipped software in a professional, internship, freelance, startup, or meaningful project environment and is ready to grow into greater ownership and responsibility.</div><div><br></div><div>You’ll help shape real product decisions, ship features used by ministries across the country, and grow quickly as both an engineer and product thinker.<br><br></div><div><strong>What You'll Do<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Build and maintain frontend features using React, React Query, CSS Modules, and modern frontend best practices.</li><li>Create responsive, accessible, and user-friendly interfaces.</li><li>Work with backend APIs to fetch, update, and manage application data.</li><li>Help QA new and existing product features by testing user workflows, identifying bugs, documenting issues clearly, and verifying fixes before release.</li><li>Contribute to backend services and APIs using Python, Django, and related tools.</li><li>Debug and troubleshoot issues across the frontend and backend.</li><li>Participate in code reviews, testing, and team knowledge-sharing.</li><li>Grow toward owning features from planning through implementation and release.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong>Our Engineering Philosophy</strong></div><div>We believe modern engineers should be dramatically amplified by AI.</div><div><br>Our team actively uses AI-assisted workflows for development, debugging, prototyping, testing, documentation, and rapid product iteration.</div><div><br>We care far more about builders who can move fast, learn quickly, and solve problems than developers obsessed with rigid specialization.</div><div><br><strong>We value:</strong></div><ul><li>Ownership over bureaucracy</li><li>Shipping over perfectionism</li><li>Curiosity over ego</li><li>Product thinking over ticket completion</li><li>Mission and craftsmanship equally<br><br></li></ul><div><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></div><ul><li>1-3 years of software development experience, including professional experience, internships, freelance work, experience, or a strong portfolio of relevant projects.</li><li>Experience using AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to support coding, debugging, documentation, automation, or developer productivity.</li><li>Experience building web applications with React.</li><li>Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and responsive design.</li><li>Experience working with APIs and understanding how frontend applications communicate with backend systems.</li><li>Basic backend development experience, ideally with Python, Django, REST APIs, or similar frameworks.</li><li>Experience using Git and working in a collaborative development environment.</li><li>A willingness to learn, ask questions, receive feedback, and grow as part of a team.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills.</li><li>A passion for building technology that supports a mission-driven organization.</li></ul><div><br><br></div><div><strong>People Who Thrive Here</strong></div><ul><li>Builders who like ownership over bureaucracy</li><li>Engineers who care deeply about user experience</li><li>Developers excited by AI</li><li>Curious learners who move fast and adapt quickly</li><li>Mission-driven people who still love great product craft</li><li>Team players with low ego and high standards</li></ul><div><strong><br>Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)</strong></div><ul><li>Familiarity with Docker, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, or automated testing.</li><li>Experience with authentication, permissions, or role-based access control.</li><li>Interest in performance, accessibility, and frontend polish.</li></ul><div><br><strong>What You’ll Love About Us</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li>100% remote position</li><li>Small team with real ownership and influence</li><li>Fast decision-making and minimal bureaucracy</li><li>AI-forward engineering culture</li><li>Strong work/life boundaries</li><li>Generous PTO and 12 paid holidays</li><li>Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s</li><li>Health benefits</li><li>Opportunity for rapid growth and mentorship</li><li>Mission-driven work with real-world impact</li></ul><div><br></div><div><em>Newman Ministry is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.</em></div>

Associate Full Stack Product Engineer

<div><strong>Opportunity Description</strong><br>Are you committed to the development of clean, well documented and tested software solutions that can meet the demanding requirements of a fast growing company?</div><div><br></div><div>If so, we're currently looking for a software developer to join our team. In this role, you'll help develop, deploy, and maintain the software and infrastructure used by thousands of Catholic parishes, dioceses, schools, and ministries.<br><br></div><div><strong>What You'll Be Doing</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Key responsibilities for this role:</strong></div><ul><li>Build services and APIs that enable the functionality required for both new and existing eCatholic products</li><li>Collaborate with team members to develop software solutions</li><li>Help refine and enforce coding standards and policies</li><li>Participate in weekly developer and company meetings</li><li>Conduct ongoing analysis and refactoring to ensure we can meet future performance, security, resilience, and scalability requirements</li><li>Participate in the design of code architectures using sequence and entity relationship diagrams</li><li>Maintain our high coding standards for production code by implementing coding patterns, and participating in code reviews</li><li>Be a part of a team that focuses on building reusable zero defect components using industry best practices to design solutions that meet and exceed the needs of the Catholic Church</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></div><div>Below is the list of qualifications we are looking for in the ideal candidate.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Required</strong>:</div><ul><li>Bachelors or Masters in computer science, natural sciences, engineering, mathematics or comparable work experience</li><li>3+ years of developing with a major language (golang preferred) on online applications</li><li>Experience developing an API (REST, GRPC, etc.)</li><li>Experience using a RDBMS (MySQL, PostGres)</li><li>An desire for learning new programming languages, skills, and technologies</li><li>Thrive working in remote agile development environment</li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Proven organizational and time management skills</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Big plus if you also have these:</strong></div><ul><li>Experience with writing GoLang</li><li>Experience with writing Python</li><li>Experience with writing unit and integration tests</li><li>5+ years experience in development of online SaaS applications</li><li>Experience creating and deploying solutions in AWS</li><li>Experience using a NoSql Implementation (BigTable, DynamoDB)</li><li>Experience working with EDA or Lambda architectures</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Technologies You will be Using:</strong></div><ul><li>GoLang</li><li>Python</li><li>GRPC</li><li>Claude</li><li>Aurora (MySQL)</li><li>Kinesis</li><li>DynamoDB</li><li>Redis</li><li>Docker</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Benefits and Location</strong><br>This role is a full-time position with salary (commensurate to the responsibilities of the role and qualifications of the candidate) and includes retirement benefits. The candidate will work remotely within the US and must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. eCatholic is a remote company with team members spread out around the country.</div>

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