Top Social Impact Software Engineer Jobs

Leads a domain of GiveDirectly’s cash delivery platform, managing 5–7 senior engineers while owning technical outcomes, reliability, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with product and organizational stakeholders on roadmaps, technical debt, infrastructure, incident response, and engineering culture. Recruits, coaches, and retains a high-performing team; sets technical quality standards; and scales payment, core platform, or offline-first data collection systems to support billions in annual cash delivery.

Leads a software development team building full-stack web and mobile applications. Oversees architecture on Azure, API integrations, secure-by-design practices, DevOps automation, testing, deployments, documentation, code reviews, and incident response. Collaborates with stakeholders and creative teams to translate requirements into reliable digital solutions, mentors developers, improves existing applications, and aligns technical delivery with organizational goals.

Leads full-stack engineering strategy, architecture standards, development quality, secure coding, HIPAA compliance, AI-enabled implementations, incident response, reliability, project delivery, and team development. Partners with organizational stakeholders, coordinates with AI/ML, IT, and information security teams, oversees testing and training, communicates technical changes, and fosters a collaborative engineering culture.

Develop and manage application integrations, REST and SOAP APIs, automated jobs, database extracts, and reporting solutions. Provide Tier 2 application support, troubleshoot performance issues, conduct root cause analysis, and support upgrades, migrations, deployments, and disaster recovery exercises. Translate business requirements into technical specifications, maintain documentation, collaborate with vendors and security teams, and participate in application-related project planning and delivery.

Own end-to-end product engineering initiatives across web, mobile, integrations, and backend services. Participate in product discovery, prototype technical solutions, shape tradeoffs, write production code and tests using TDD, maintain system quality, and manage cross-cutting integrations. Establish coding and testing patterns, resolve dependencies, mentor junior engineers, use AI tools responsibly, and ensure reliable, maintainable delivery in partnership with product and design peers.

Own the quality and user experience of Chariot’s web application. Build polished, accessible, performant interfaces with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS; translate Figma designs into production-ready implementations; develop reusable components and design systems; improve usability, accessibility, performance, and frontend architecture; prototype rapidly with AI tools; and collaborate across Product, Design, and backend engineering.

Develops, deploys, supports, and documents enterprise applications and business solutions for public health programs. Responsibilities include integrating LLM and AI tools, building web applications, reports, forms, workflows, and integrations; defining requirements; testing solutions; troubleshooting systems; supporting enterprise applications; training users; managing projects; and identifying automation opportunities while following data governance and AI policies.

The Staff Software Engineer will drive the technical vision for the Integrations platform, focusing on APIs, system connectivity, and architecture. Responsibilities include designing integration components, mentoring engineers, and managing AWS services to support scalable workflows.

Design and deliver improvements to Wikipedia’s wikitext processing infrastructure, write PHP and JavaScript, maintain internet APIs, instrument components, and use caching and persistence technologies. Collaborate across engineering, product, design, client, and volunteer communities; own complex technical projects, make architectural decisions, maintain reliable high-performance software, write tests, address security feedback, and mentor engineers.

Develop and operate highly scalable backend systems and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining Python HTTP services, working with DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis, provisioning cloud resources through infrastructure as code, reasoning about distributed systems, and owning software from design through monitoring. The role also focuses on reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, observability, technical roadmaps, and collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders.