givebutter - Staff Engineer
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Requirements
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent in adversarial domains — fraud, trust & safety, risk, abuse prevention, or similar. • Experience building fraud detection or risk decisioning systems — rule engines, scoring systems, policy frameworks, or investigation platforms. You've built the thing, not just consumed the output. • Strong backend engineering fundamentals. You can design scalable, event-driven systems and reason about distributed architecture tradeoffs. You've debugged production issues across multiple layers of the stack. • Collaborative influence. You've helped drive technical initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders. You're comfortable building consensus and working through ambiguity with others. • Good judgment and prioritization. You can take a vague problem like "our dispute rate is climbing" and work with your team to break it down into a concrete plan with clear next steps. • Experience with PHP/Laravel, or a similar MVC framework like Ruby on Rails, Django, etc. Laravel experience is a plus, but strong fundamentals in any comparable framework translate well. • Experience leading projects or small teams as a senior IC (e.g., technical lead/staff-level leadership): setting direction, unblocking others, and mentoring. • Experience with React/TypeScript on the frontend. • Familiarity with Stripe's APIs, payments, disputes, Radar, or similar payment processor integrations. • Experience building tools for operations or support teams (internal tooling, case management, review queues). • Background in fundraising, nonprofit tech, or marketplace platforms where T&S challenges involve campaign legitimacy, donor protection, or platform abuse. • Exposure to event-driven architectures (CDC, Kafka, event sourcing) for real-time risk signal processing. • Experience working in AWS (EKS/Kubernetes, RDS, etc.). • 2. Hiring Manager Interview: A deeper dive into your relevant experience, skillset, and working style. This is your first opportunity to connect directly with the person who may be your future manager. • 3. Assessment (technical or non-technical): This stage will vary based on the role. It could involve a live coding session, case study, or take-home project. Some roles may include two parts to this stage to evaluate both practical skills and problem-solving approaches • 4. Values Interview: A conversation with team members focused on how you align with our core values and leadership principles. • 5. References: We connect with a few folks you’ve worked closely with to get a better picture of your working style and impact. • 6. Offer: If all goes well, we’ll move to the offer stage! • Please note, we will have an AI note-taking tool join most of our interviews. • Hi potential new butterslice! A recent study from LinkedIn https://business.linkedin.com/content/dam/me/business/en-us/talent-solutions-lodestone/body/pdf/Gender-Insights-Report.pdf showed that most women apply to jobs only when they meet 100% of the requirements, whereas men will hit the apply button if they hit 60%. Givebutter is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. So to the women and nonbinary folks out there feeling unsure if you're a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply!
Responsibilities
• Build the fraud platform. Design and implement fraud detection and risk decisioning systems, rule engines, scoring pipelines, event-driven risk signals, and backtesting infrastructure. • Build for operators. Create investigation and review tooling that helps our Trust & Safety operations team triage, investigate, and resolve cases efficiently. You care as much about internal UX as external. • Help shape what we build next. You'll work closely with your manager, product, operations and leadership stakeholders to identify where we're exposed, propose solutions, and help prioritize the roadmap. Your domain expertise matters here — we want your perspective on what we should be doing. • Think like an adversary. Develop a deep understanding of fraud vectors in the fundraising and payments space: stolen cards, synthetic identities, friendly fraud, campaign abuse, and help us build systems that adapt as threats evolve. • Strengthen payment integrity. Work across our payment systems to harden the transaction lifecycle against abuse. You don't need to be a payments expert on day one. • Mentor and grow the team. Help engineers on your team develop Trust & Safety domain expertise. Share what you know, pair on hard problems, and help raise the bar for how the team approaches adversarial challenges.
Benefits
• Remote Work: Work remotely from one of our 10 hubs (Austin, Denver, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Nashville). • Health Insurance: We offer Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance covered 100% for employees as well as HSA and FSA accounts. • Dependent Care Coverage: We offer coverage for dependents, with 50% of Medical, Dental, and Vision premiums covered for all eligible dependents. • Mental Health: Givebutter health insurance plans come with access to a TalkSpace membership. • 401k: We offer a 3% 401k match for all eligible employee's. • Vacation and Holidays: Givebutter offers a Flexible PTO policy with uncapped vacation days and company-recognized holidays. • Wellness Week: Givebutter closes for one week each summer to prioritize rest and recharge for the entire team. • Parental Leave: We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all parents and comprehensive leave planning management through Aidora. • Family Care Support: Access a company-paid UrbanSitter membership plus care credits to book trusted, background-checked caregivers for childcare, senior care, pet care, and household support when you need it most. • Coworking Stipend: Enjoy a monthly stipend that gives you the freedom to work from coworking spaces or cafés whenever you need connection, community, or a change of scenery. • Charitable Giving: Employees are encouraged to donate up to $50/month to any verified nonprofit they wish to support on Givebutter. • Professional Development: We offer learning and development reimbursement opportunities. • Love What You Do: We are a mission-driven company serving the charitable sector. Feel good about the work you're doing and the company you work for.
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