virtuous - Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

United States1mo ago

Remote Senior NA Cloud Computing Software Senior Software Engineer Python Django C#.NET Full Stack

Requirements

• 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 https://virtuous.org/company/about/. • 6+ years building modern web applications, including meaningful time spent running and scaling them in production • Proficiency in Python and frameworks like Django (or similar) • Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) as part of your regular development workflow • Experience operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g., Terraform) • Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks such as React or Vue • Strong understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL — not just querying them, but tuning them: indexing, query optimization, and strategies for scaling (read replicas, partitioning, connection pooling, etc.) • Experience integrating with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs • Solid DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure monitoring, and hands-on experience scaling applications under real load • Comfort with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) and a habit of using it to debug and prevent production issues • A love for building quality products that delight users and solve real problems • Strong communication skills and a team-first mindset • Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes) or modern PaaS deployment • Experience defining and working against SLOs/SLIs, or otherwise formalizing reliability targets • 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

Responsibilities

• You'll own meaningful, high-impact areas of the platform end to end — not just contribute to them. Specifically, you can expect to: • Own the performance and scalability of our data layer as we onboard larger and more complex organizations — indexing, query optimization, read replicas, partitioning, and connection pooling — so onboarding and day-to-day usage stay fast and reliable even at enterprise scale • Own our asynchronous and background-processing infrastructure (e.g., Celery), keeping it healthy, observable, and able to keep pace with growing data volume • Design, build, and ship net-new, revenue-driving features across the full stack — from messaging and bulk-sending capabilities to richer reporting, analytics, and email experiences • Help reinforce and extend our move to a server-side, HTMX-based frontend, improving both developer velocity and front-end reliability • 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, and help foster a culture of learning and improvement • Own the reliability, performance, and observability of the systems you work on — instrument them well, set meaningful alerts, and treat production health as a first-class part of the work • Provide thoughtful feedback on technology choices as we evaluate changes across our stack • Support a culture of experimentation, iteration, and continuous delivery

Benefits

• 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 http://virtuous.org domain. If you receive a message from other domains, even if they look similar (e.g., virtuouscareers.org http://virtuouscareers.org or virtuousjobs.com http://virtuousjobs.com), they are not legitimate and we recommend disregarding it immediately.