Senior Software Engineer Manager

Sr. Software Engineering Manager  

Givelify is a fintech-for-good company where brilliant minds come to power the most loved and trusted online and mobile giving app platform. Thanks to over 1.3 million generous donors, we’ve helped 60,000 nonprofits and places of worship raise more than $4 billion. Together, they’re changing their world with kindness and generosity.

Inc. 5000, the Stevies® Awards, Gartner, Forbes, and many more have recognized our story, innovations, and achievements. Our award-winning team builds products and experiences that put more good into the world. We love to take on big challenges because we know our work matters.

Come make an impact at one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. Be part of a talented team of big-hearted individuals, earning competitive pay with excellent benefits.  

About your role:

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our cross-functional Giving Experience Engineering Teams.  In this role, you will champion the iOS, Android, API, and other engineering teams that are responsible for building products that enable millions of donors to give to causes they care about. You will be responsible for the engineering architecture, the quality of our products, and delivering exceptional user experiences.  We're seeking a leader who is truly passionate about technology and committed to leveraging engineering and scientific skills to create positive change. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to empower users, drive social impact, and excel in a fast-paced environment, we invite you to join us in our mission to help good people do more good.

Your team:

The Giving Experience Team comprises a cross-functional group of engineers, designers, product managers, marketers, and data scientists. They play a pivotal role in fulfilling Givelify's mission of connecting people to the causes that matter most to them. This team is entrusted with building innovative products and services for our donors, including our flagship offering, the Givelify Mobile Giving App. Together, they are dedicated to bringing joy and fulfillment into people's lives through beautiful, frictionless giving experiences

The Senior Software Engineering Manager will get to:

• Own the Giving Experience Team’s strategic technology roadmap and collaborate with Technology Leadership to help drive the overall Technology vision for Givelify
• Lead the Giving Experience Team’s end-to-end product development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance, ensuring timely delivery of projects
• Own the technical direction and architectural decisions to ensure software systems' scalability, reliability, and maintainability in the Giving Experience
• Ensure that the quality of software products in your domain and adheres to Givelify’s high bar of engineering quality and design excellence
• Recruit, onboard, grow, and set up engineering teams for success. Mentor and grow future leaders

To be successful in this role, you’ll also:

• Champion engineering best practices, standards, and processes, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact and making recommendations for adoption when appropriate
• Build a culture of engineering excellence focusing on usability, performance, scalability, reliability, and security
• Foster a collaborative, fast-paced, cross-functional culture
• Represent Givelify at conferences, talks, presentations

Your experience:

• B.S./ M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent STEM degree
• 7+ years of experience building and architecting APIs and other systems that allow Android, iOS, or IoT systems to operate on scale with high levels of autonomy and reliability
• Experience planning, executing, and delivering projects with multiple engineers in an agile cross-functional environment 
• Proven track record of building products that allow extreme availability for millions of users 

Your superpowers:

• Someone who is an engineer at their heart and enjoys solving complex problems
• Ability to lead the department strategically while being able to dive into the front lines and guide the team tactically
• Strong communicator both with individual contributors and with senior executive leadership
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Metrics-driven leader

Our culture:

At Givelify, engineering is at the heart of what we do. Our brilliant engineers love solving moon shots, and we're engineering the world's largest giving platform at scale. We have an unrelenting focus on quality, paying close attention to the minutiae of user experience and ensuring reliability, recoverability, and traceability in all our applications. Our culture of robust systems architecture and high performance enables your app to work with extremely high availability for millions of users. We're passionate about engineering and have a desire to help improve the world around us. We enjoy working with great technologists, designers, and product leaders and have a culture of rapid deliverability. Join us and be a part of our mission to make the world a better place through technology. In addition to that, we also take great pride in providing competitive pay, full benefits to help care for you today and in the future, amazing perks (including flexible PTO), and, most importantly, the opportunity to put passion and purpose front and center.  

About Givelify

Givelify is the most loved and trusted online and mobile giving platform. Along with its powerful donation management system, it’s the fastest-growing technology for advancing generosity in the world. We instantly connect people to their heart’s impulse to do good with award-winning products and experiences. A global community of more than 1.3 million generous people support their favorite churches, places of worship, nonprofits and causes with over $4 billion in donations across more than 60,000 organizations. Givelify leads all giving apps on the App Store and Google Play Store with more than 90,000 verified authentic reviews with an average 4.9 out of 5-star rating.

Ready to revolutionize fintech and philanthropy? Apply below.