Senior Software Engineer

🇺🇸 United States - Remote
💻 Software Development🟣 Senior

Job description

About Us

Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.

Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits

We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That’s why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.

The ideal candidate for Virtuous embodies our values by:

  • Asking questions with a spirit of curiosity

  • Giving feedback freely with candor & grace, welcoming it in return

  • Displaying a passion for philanthropy and technology

  • Serving with joy. Everyone is willing to make the coffee!

  • Celebrating the wins & milestones of others

  • Assuming good intent & demonstrating trust in others

  • Pursuing relationships with people different from themselves & creates space to be human

Find our core values & more here.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a Sr. Software Engineer (Fullstack) to join our growing Engineering team. This role will report directly to Engineering leadership and collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across Product, Design and Engineering.

You’ll help us build, scale, and maintain web applications that power the Virtuous platform. You should feel comfortable working across the full stack—from crafting intuitive UIs to designing robust backend services—and have a strong track record of shipping production-ready code.

Our current tech stack includes Python/Django on the backend and React on the frontend, but we’re also evaluating other tools and frameworks to support our growing platform needs. A willingness to explore new technologies and offer thoughtful input into technical decisions is important to us.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable web applications used by nonprofit organizations around the world

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions

  • Write clean, testable, and efficient code across the frontend and backend

  • Contribute to architectural discussions and help drive technical decision-making across the platform

  • Participate in code reviews, mentor junior team members, and help foster a culture of learning and improvement

  • Deploy applications and support production systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance

  • Provide thoughtful feedback on technology choices as we evaluate changes across our stack

  • Support a culture of experimentation, iteration, and continuous delivery

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building modern web applications

  • Proficiency in Python and frameworks like Django (or similar)

  • Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks such as React or Vue

  • Solid understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL

  • Experience integrating with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs

  • Familiarity with basic DevOps practices (e.g., CI/CD, infrastructure monitoring, scaling applications)

  • A love for building quality products that delight users and solve real problems

  • Strong communication skills and a team-first mindset

  • Openness to leveraging AI tools for productivity, experimentation, and better engineering outcomes

Nice to Haves

  • Experience working in a SaaS or B2B product company

  • Familiarity with C# / .NET

  • Prior experience in the nonprofit tech space

  • Contributions to open-source projects or relevant technical blogs

  • Excitement about helping teams grow and mature their engineering practices

What We Offer

  • Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data

  • Employee recognition through Bonusly (birthdays, anniversaries, achievements, etc.)

  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days

  • We value our employee’s work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PTO

  • Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays

  • Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

  • 12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well)

  • We pride ourselves on Community and host exciting company outings and events.

We’ve recently noticed an increase in recruitment scams where individuals are impersonating recruiters to obtain personal or financial information through fraudulent interviews and job offers.

Please note that all legitimate communication from Virtuous will only come from the @virtuous.org domain. If you receive a message from other domains, even if they look similar (e.g., virtuouscareers.org or virtuousjobs.com), they are not legitimate and we recommend disregarding it immediately.

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