Senior Software Engineer

About Aplos, Keela & Raisely

Keela, Aplos, and Raisely are on a mission to empower nonprofits worldwide with the technology they need to drive change.  By providing powerful, purpose-built tools, we aim to transform how nonprofits operate.  Together, we are creating the first fully integrated cloud platform tailored for nonprofits—delivering seamless solutions for accounting, fundraising, and CRM, all in one place.  Our team is dedicated to building a sustainable, ethical business that creates a lasting global impact.

Purpose of Position:

We are seeking a dedicated Senior Software Engineer with a passion for engineering across both back-end and front-end technologies.  You will have a proven track record in leading, mentoring, and empowering your team to produce clean, stable, and technically sound code.  With a keen eye for detail and extensive experience in writing high-quality code, creating thorough tests, and conducting in-depth peer code reviews, you excel in problem-solving and are motivated by the chance to support nonprofit organizations.  Your curiosity and commitment drive you to find innovative solutions, whether working independently or collaboratively.  You thrive on feedback, viewing it as a chance to learn and enhance your skills both as a developer and as an individual.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirements

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. 
• 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.

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 7 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.

Benefits

• 💵 Salary – Pay range depends on location and is $135,000 - $165,000 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@aplos.com.

Aplos, Keela and Raisely’s Commitment to Equal-Employment, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

We know with diversity comes strength. Aplos provides 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.