Software Engineer

Raisely helps nonprofits across the world bring their fundraising ideas to life. We’re a purpose-driven remote team, spread across 7 countries and 17 cities. 

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to ship robust and performant javascript that underpins the ambitions of charity fundraisers around the world. By joining our team, you’ll not only get to deepen your software development & architecture skills but save lives, uplift climate action, and support the most vulnerable people in our society.

As part of a small feature team with 4-6 others with the support of your technical lead, you’ll be responsible for developing our product, adding new features, paying down tech debt, and ensuring code works well in production. While our engineers might specialise in front-end, or back-end, as they grow into their role they will pitch in across the full stack. Most of our code is Node on the backend (with Postgres) and React on the frontend.

Raisely aims to cover all the core needs of a fundraiser. Our product covers donation processing, page builder, CRM, fundraising management and marketing automation. Our engineering team has the task of balancing the need to realise our ambitions while managing increasing sophistication of our codebase.

We already facilitate millions of API requests each day, and expect that to continue growing, so you’ll be supported to write code that scales.

Like all roles at Raisely, you should be an excellent communicator, believe in the values behind our customer screen, and leave your ego at the door (amplifying others is one of our 3 core values).

This is a full-time, permanent role. You’ll be expected to do 5 days/38hrs a week while you’re getting up to speed, then within 3 months will be eligible to move to 4 days/30.4hrs as part of our 4 Day Work Week policy.

We can employ you in Australia, or engage you as a contractor with equal terms anywhere in the world.

You can work from anywhere provided you can comfortably meet the following requirements:

• You can comfortably work 3 hours overlap with AEST/AEDT mornings
• You can attend weekly meetings at 12 noon on Tuesdays and 11am Thursdays (AEST/AEDT).

Here’s some things that you might tackle in your first few months. Importantly, we’ll be here to support you along the way.

• Upgrade our donation form experience based on feedback from our data and design teams to improve conversion and fundraising for charities large & small
• Build a new React component that customers can drop into their website to engage fundraisers
• Create a new dashboard to give our clients the actionable insights they need to improve their fundraising performance
• Optimise the performance of database queries associated with a new feature to ensure it’s performant and stable under high load when we release it
• Upgrading security features so our customers accounts are adopting best practices by default, allowing them to  focus on what they do best
• Jump into an incident call and be willing to help out if our monitoring alerts us to high latency in our API
• Give constructive and practical feedback to your fellow engineers in PR reviews

Requirements

You enjoy solving problems with code

You have high technical competence. You're a capable engineer, you produce high quality code and consider the various permutations and edge-cases.

You're a manager-of-one

You don't need a manager to check in and direct your workflow, you'd prefer to work to broad expectations and manage your own time within that framework. You can identify when you need a hand, and won't hesitate to ask.

You ship code and see it through to production

You understand that there's a balance between writing perfect code and actually shipping code and you finish what you start. You're happy to adjust that code in response to feedback, and prompt the team to help you see that code through to production.

You care about making a difference

Yeah, we’re all here because we want to make the world better (and by that we mean a utopian paradise where humanity is at peace with our neighbours, nature, and ourselves and we actively support one another to thrive together). So you’ve gotta want that too!

And we’re looking for experience.

You don’t need to have been writing javascript since before the birth of the Internet, but this is not an entry level role, we’re looking for someone who’s experienced writing and shipping code in a paid role.

Benefits

This ain't no NFTs for rainforests pyramid scheme. In your first week with us, you’ll be a part of helping vetted charities raise 2.5 million dollars for everything from responding to crisis to curing cancer. 

So we can make this happen, we’ve made working here different. You’d be joining a fully remote, global team of compassionate, generous experts – from engineering to sales. We’re async, avoid busywork and keep meetings to a minimum. We work 4 days a week, for full-time pay, and full-time productivity. Once you’re up to speed, a regular week here is 32 hours.

Working at Raisely is unique. You’ll be able to build a product that supports people working on the things that matter: health, climate justice, human rights, equality.

If you needed more convincing, here’s the rest of it:

💵 Salary – We benchmark salaries based on similar roles in Sydney, Australia. This role will pay between $115-135k + super depending on your experience.

⏰ 4 Day Week & Flexible Hours – Working here is about getting your work done, not clocking hours. You’ll be eligible to work a 4 Day Week at full pay once you’re past onboarding. We’ll work with you to figure out hours that work with you, and we’re flexible when life gets in the way.

💻 Technology – The usuals. We’ll get you a laptop and screen when you start, plus help you set up your home office.

✈️ ‘In-Person’ Retreats – Every 18 months or so, we fly you somewhere pretty for our team retreats. Our next one is in the Hunter Valley in NSW.

🗺 Annual Leave – Everyone gets 4 weeks paid leave plus 11 days of public holidays, to be taken when you like. Plus, you are entitled to generous paid sick leave.

🌴 Work remotely – We’re a remote-first company - live and work wherever you’re happiest. We’ll cover a coworking space if you’d like to work there.

😌 Calm Company – ⅓ of us are parents, another ⅓ are parents to fur babies, and the other ⅓, well, they have lives too, so we strive to respect each others personal time.

🤷 Training – We’ll support you when you want to learn new skills or pay for conference or course tickets.