GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers

GiveCampus is the world's starring fundraising level for non-profit acquisition institutions. Trusted by millions of donors and 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools, our ngo is to thief beforehand the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education. At our existent pace, we will facilitate $100 cardinal successful charitable giving complete the adjacent decade–enough money to nonstop much than 1 cardinal students to college, tuition-free.

GiveCampus is backed by starring investors including Y Combinator, but we’re besides practitioners of Sustainable Growth: we’ve made the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing backstage companies each of the past 5 years and we’ve been profitable 9 of the past 10. In 2025, we celebrated a $140 cardinal maturation investment that included a awesome liquidity arena for GiveCampus employees–the 2nd successful little than 3 years. 

Our purpose-driven squad of 130+ is located successful 30+ states crossed the US: squad members activity from anyplace they choose. We person a beautiful 12,000sf agency successful Washington, DC that is disposable for group to usage whenever they want, and we regularly shape squad meet-ups, sojourn partner institutions, and big retreats successful various locations. 

While we run astatine meaningful scale, we’re still mini comparative to the commercialized and societal bully opportunities successful beforehand of us. Every GiveCampus worker plays a meaningful domiciled successful shaping what comes next, and we're increasing the squad successful support of our eager plans–including a $100 cardinal finance successful AI merchandise development. If you judge successful the transformative powerfulness of acquisition and want to subordinate a fast-growing, mission-driven company, you’ll fresh correct in.

Location: This is simply a remote-first domiciled based successful the U.S. While we clasp flexible, distributed work, we besides worth in-person connection. Team members are expected to be aggregate company-wide and team-specific onsites passim the year.

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We are looking for a smart and technically focused Engineering Dev Manager to subordinate GiveCampus and thief america return the level to the adjacent level. You will beryllium a cardinal personnel of our team, making method and staffing decisions that will style the company’s future. As 1 of 2 Dev Managers connected a increasing squad of 30+ Engineers, you will beryllium responsible for managing 2 aliases much engineering pods which dwell of a Tech Lead and 2-5 engineers moving intimately pinch a PM from the Product team. You will lead the teams and thief scheme and present connected the merchandise roadmap while assisting successful the master improvement of the squad members. You will study to the VP of Engineering and lead hiring, onboarding and capacity guidance of your team, mounting clear goals and expectations for capacity and quality. We are headquartered successful Washington, DC, but are hiring crossed the US (we are a afloat distant workforce but we besides judge successful getting together astatine times successful personification - beryllium that onboarding arsenic good arsenic institution and section retreats 2-3 times a year).

Responsibilities will include: 

• Pod and group guidance - making judge the pods are humming on pinch good system interactions/schedule and clear goals. For individuals connected pods, this includes maturation & development, capacity management, onboarding arsenic good arsenic making difficult decisions (moving retired group who aren't a fit), and retention
• Act arsenic a multiplier and unblocker to thief your pods quickly build caller features from commencement to decorativeness and backmost extremity to beforehand end
• Work intimately pinch Tech Leads and Product Managers to thief specify and refine projects - weighing successful connected architecture, activity breakdown, scheduling and merchandise planning.
• Communicate position and advancement connected transportation objectives to elder management
• Work intimately pinch and supporting your teammates successful an agile improvement situation and helping reenforce and proceed to amended our agile practices
• Contribute to the activity successful progress, including architecture and PR reappraisal and updating shared documentation.
• Mentor inferior and mid/senior unit to thief them turn successful their craft
• Drive efforts astir the interviewing and onboarding caller squad members to your pods and assistance successful the refinement of our team-wide interviewing processes
• Contribute to team-wide initiatives including coding standards, method indebtedness refinement and strategy information monitoring
• Work intimately pinch the VP of Engineering and CTO connected team-wide master improvement initiatives
• Participate successful the support of the level connected a rotational ground (pod based support and 24/7 connected telephone rotation for incident lead to support engineers who are connected call)

What we are looking for: 

• Have lead 1 aliases much teams arsenic some a method lead and group head successful a fast-paced, agile improvement environment
• System creation acquisition pinch a attraction connected architecting solutions that tin beryllium implemented incrementally while keeping an oculus towards standard and resilience
• Leadership skills which equilibrium some group guidance and method excellence. Someone who tin coach squad members connected method and agile practices while still weighing successful connected PR reviews astir high-risk codification changes
• Functional, existent world programming acquisition (vs. theoretical) successful 1 of the following: Ruby, Python aliases Javascript/node.js
• Experience pinch MVC frameworks specified arsenic Rails, Django, Pyramid, etc
• Experience pinch modern front-end frameworks for illustration React and Vue.js
• SQL database acquisition (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite).
• 3 positive years successful a head role, 10 positive years of hands-on improvement experience

Bonus points if you have: 

• Managed teams that shipped codification supporting tens of thousands of users, including enterprise/business customers.
• Deep expertise pinch Ruby/Ruby connected Rails and automated testing (rspec aliases minitest).
• Experience pinch deployments to Heroku, AWS, aliases similar.
• Operations acquisition and really it pertains to tract reliability/speed.
• Familiarity pinch networking, caching, database, and really to triage capacity and stableness issues (ideally pinch Postgres aliases MySQL)
• Experience moving connected a fundraising/crowdfunding platform.
• Experience moving connected a fintech aliases payments exertion product.

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At GiveCampus, we worth diverseness and we promise to foster an situation of support, inclusivity, and learning, some connected the occupation and passim the exertion process. In this spirit, we promote candidates of each backgrounds to apply.

GiveCampus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and labor are not discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, intersexual orientation, gender personality aliases expression, age, religion, nationalist origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, seasoned status, aesculapian information aliases immoderate protected class prohibited by local, authorities aliases national laws.

If you consciousness for illustration you don't meet each of the requirements for this role, please use anyways. We cognize assurance gaps and imposter syndrome often get successful the measurement of connecting pinch unthinkable people, and we don't want them to forestall america from gathering you.