Posted:2 hours ago
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Non-Profit Organization Management
Description:
GiveDirectly is the first — and largest — nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world’s poorest. We believe people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives — cash enables that choice.
,Since 2009, we’ve delivered over $140 million in cash directly into the hands of over 130,000 families living in poverty.
,We read the research. We read more research. Then we did our own research. And it turns out, people use cash on medicine; cows and goats and chickens; school fees; water; solar lights; tin roofs; irrigation; motorcycles to jumpstart taxi services; businesses to generate income; and more.
Job Description
What you’ll do:
- 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.
- Own end-to-end development of new features and services, from architecture through deployment and monitoring.
- Improve our developer workflows by strengthening CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual steps, and increasing test coverage.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, ops, data) to understand real-world needs and ship tools that directly support program delivery in the field.
- Debug and resolve production issues across our stack, with a focus on root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
- Advocate for sustainable engineering practices, including testing, documentation, and monitoring
- Help shape our tech roadmap with an eye toward scale, maintainability, and recipient experience
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
- Experience with backend architecture: databases, cloud services, APIs
- Experience building infrastructure to deploy software
- Experience with strongly-typed, object-oriented programming such as Java, C#, Go, etc. and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, etc.
- 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)
- Bonus: Experience using Python and AWS in a production environment
- Bonus: experience with payments/financial software and/or experience with microservice/serverless architecture
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
