Vacancies at GiveDirectly

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and test software systems for fundraising, including the core checkout flow for online donations and Impact Dashboard where donors can see the impact of their personal donations
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with the product team to design and build a compelling and smooth donor experience
• Partner with product to balance feature development with addressing tech debt, infrastructure investments, and other efforts to improve velocity and drive compounding progress
• Partner with data to enable metrics collection and measurement, and provide information for website performance analysis
• Debug issues across multiple layers of our stack
• Own large projects end-to-end, including scoping, estimating costs, and design and architecture decisions
• Advocate for engineering-driven investments with a vision for keeping our systems flexible and maintainable to meet the evolving needs of our donors and team

What You’ll Bring

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values 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.
• Language Requirement: English
• 4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems
• Full stack experience
• Strong proficiency in software development and coding in various languages such as Python, Go, Javascript, C#, Java, PHP, etc.
• Experience building infrastructure to deploy software
• 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
• 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)
• Strong knowledge of security best practices for web applications

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What You’ll Do
Own finance tech systems

• Own the administration, configuration, and integration of finance tech systems (including accounting, expenses, timesheets, and payments)
• Lead development of finance tech systems strategy to ensure the finance team has the right software tools to operate productively and securely, and lead initiatives to implement that strategy
• Build a deep understanding of finance needs, and use that to anticipate and remove obstacles and leverage tech to drive improvements

Provide user support to org-wide users

• Respond to user requests through our ticketing system, such as adding new vendors or troubleshooting access
• Ensure effective user access and permissions management, and timely onboarding and offboarding of users
• Provide training and support to users across the organization

Ensure trusted, reliable financial data

• Create and uphold data quality contracts for core finance data
• Interface with engineers and data architects on integrations and ensure that finance data is available and usable for reporting org-wide

What You’ll Bring

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values 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.
• Language Requirement: English
• 4+ years of relevant professional experience in financial systems management, accounting/finance, or IT systems with a focus on financial applications
• Knowledge of IT security best practices and secure configuration of cloud-based software tools
• Deep expertise with accounting software (Sage Intacct a bonus)
• Knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting standards
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
• Deep expertise with Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets; strong ability to extract, clean, and manipulate large data sets
• Strong initiative and ability to drive process improvements that impact multiple teams
• High attention to detail and to high quality customer service
• Systematic approach to troubleshooting technical problems and finding the root cause
• Strong project management experience; comfortable managing complex timelines and multiple stakeholders
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, including finance, programs, and fundraising teams
• Bonus but not required: accounting experience
• Bonus but not required: experience working with relational databases (e.g. SQL)