Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

About Us

Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving. Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits. We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join our growing Engineering team. This role will report directly to Engineering leadership and collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across Product, Design and Engineering. You'll help us build, scale, and maintain the web applications that power the Virtuous platform — keeping them fast, reliable, and observable as our traffic and data grow, while also shipping the net-new features that win deals and deepen the value customers get from the product.

Responsibilities

• 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

What You Must Have

• 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 strong understanding of market trends and a passion for innovation

What We Offer

• 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
• 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 value our employee’s work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PT
• We pride ourselves on Community and host exciting company outings and events