or apply directly on GiveDirectly's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days GiveDirectly's roles stay open a median of 62 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 4% of GiveDirectly's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at GiveDirectly
- high 27 stale, 0 reposted of 28 open
- Hiring momentum
- 52 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from GiveDirectly's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for GiveDirectly.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer at GiveDirectly, you'll be responsible for designing and building scalable systems that support cash transfer operations. This hands-on role involves end-to-end development of features, improving developer workflows, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to address real-world challenges. You'll have the opportunity to shape the tech roadmap while advocating for sustainable engineering practices in a mission-driven environment.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of GiveDirectly as an employer.
What you need
- 4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems
- Experience with backend architecture: databases, cloud services, APIs
- Experience building infrastructure to deploy software
- Experience with strongly-typed, object-oriented programming such as Java, C#, Go, etc. and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, etc.
- High degree of ownership and autonomy
- Strong analytical skills and communication
Nice to have
- Experience using Python and AWS in a production environment
- Experience with payments/financial software and/or experience with microservice/serverless architecture
What you get
- Competitive salary, including bonus
- Annual Benefits Stipend
- Unlimited PTO
- Desk allowance and flexible work location
- Robust health benefits plan
Worth weighing
- Must overlap with East Africa Time and US Eastern Time by at least 3 hours
- Only certain countries are eligible for employment
- No sponsorship for employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time
- Travel requirement of 1-2 times per year to countries of operation
Summarised from GiveDirectly's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by GiveDirectly on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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