Senior Software Engineer

About Velora:

We’re excited to share that Aplos, Raisely, and Keela have come together to form one unified company, Velora, with a shared mission: to help nonprofit organizations thrive. While we continue to offer the products you know and love, we now operate as one team, dedicated to making nonprofit work easier, more impactful, and more sustainable.

Together, our combined expertise spans fundraising, donor management, financial tracking, and communications—offering a powerful suite of tools designed to reduce complexity so nonprofits can focus on what matters most: making a difference.

We’re one company with 3 products all servicing customers in the impact space. Working at Velora means that you have the opportunity to build one or across all our products.

We have a combination of merged teams and also teams dedicated to one specific product and you can find details about the work through our job descriptions under the “about the role” section.

About the role:

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Feature Team at Raisely. The ideal candidate will have proven Senior level experience in software development. They will utilize their skill set to collaborate with other senior technical leaders to design and build scalable distributed solutions, prioritizing performance, reliability and observability to ensure the customer’s user experience above all. They will participate in design and build a strong foundation for our teams by providing shared services, frameworks and patterns that enable them to focus on delivering high-quality features to our users.

Your role:

- Operates at a high technical level, leading initiatives and complex projects.
- Influences technical direction and architectural decisions.
- Owns projects that have a high impact on the company or product.
- Partners with product management to align engineering work with business goals.
- Mentors multiple engineers, focusing on technical excellence and team culture.
- Contributes to on-call / pager duty, taking responsibility, accountability and ownership during a high impact incident.
- Proactively contributes to team discussions, code reviews and strategic decisions.
- Writes good and clear documentation to express solutions and design systems.

- 5 - 7 years minimum industry experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Ability to build complex tech design, to high degree of competency, unassisted.
- Strong sense of ownership of projects and delivery.
- Able to decompose projects into component pieces with confidence.
- Respected contributor and mentor.
- Drives process change across teams.
- Effectively communicates with all stakeholders across the business (technical and non-technical).
- Contributes to patterns + architecture.
- Effectively balances business needs with potential solutions.
- Ability to express their solutions and ideas through documentation, diagrams, and RFCs.

Further Details:

Technical Expertise

- Mastery in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, and Java preferred).
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and NoSQL (MongoDB) a plus.
- Familiar with modern full-stack frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Express, Django) and front-end frameworks (React preferred).
- Strong understanding and desire to perform full-stack development, including design, development, testing, scaling, and observability/monitoring.
- Proficient with tools and technologies such as Git, Postman, command line/shell, SQL, HTML/CSS, and browser developer tools.
- Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and application containerization (Docker) a plus.

Leadership and Collaboration

- Demonstrated ability to lead projects, mentor team members, and drive best practices across teams.
- Experience decomposing complex projects into actionable components and contributing to architectural patterns.
- Effective communication skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders across business units.
- Ability to build complex tech design, to a high degree of competency, unassisted.

Work Methodologies

- Experienced in Agile/Scrum development practices.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, accountability, and ability to drive projects to completion independently.

Additional Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer with at least 2 in a Senior role. Preference for experience in a SaaS product company.
- Proficiency in English (written and spoken).
- Experience with tools such as Linear, Notion, GitHub, Slack, and Python.
- Experience with fundraising software is a plus.

- Salary – The salary range for this role is between $145,000 - $170,000 CAD. Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and geographic location.
- ️ Remote work & leave – We’re a remote-first company. We also have generous PTO plans (4 weeks of vacation, volunteer time off, plus an office closure from Christmas to New Year’s Day) and support paid parental leave (12 weeks).
- Health Coverage & RRSP - We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on RRSP.

If you have any questions or require accommodations in the interview process, please reach out

to recruitment@joinvelora.com.

Velora's Commitment to Equal-Employment, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

We know with diversity comes strength. We strive to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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