Lead Software Engineer, Bonterra
Payments
$110-145k
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Software for social impact organizations
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Software for social impact organizations
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$110-145k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where the number of individual donors is on the rise, not the decline.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a lead or technical leadership role—owning release cycles, making architecture decisions, or equivalent
- Deep expertise in payments systems and event-driven architecture; experience with payment provider integrations (Stripe strongly preferred)
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js in production; experience with AWS serverless infrastructure (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, Aurora Serverless or equivalent)
- Understanding of financial correctness requirements—idempotency, duplicate detection, reconciliation, and partial failure handling
- AI-first mindset: actively uses AI coding tools, writes specs that enable AI-generated code, evaluates AI output for correctness and technical debt
- Track record of owning end-to-end delivery quality for a platform or product area
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across product and engineering teams
- Passion for empowering the social good sector through technology
Desirable
- Familiarity with PCI compliance requirements in a SaaS context
- Experience with API schema governance or platform-wide contract management
- Experience with fraud detection patterns or payment risk systems
- Background in nonprofit, civic, or political technology
- Experience designing or operating agents in production engineering workflows
What the job involves
- Are you a technical lead with deep expertise in payments infrastructure and event-driven systems
- Do you thrive owning the technical health of a platform—making key design decisions, setting the quality bar, and ensuring the team delivers with correctness and reliability
- Are you ready to own the core infrastructure of a payments platform that processes $3B+ annually?
- At Bonterra, we're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to own technical leadership for our Payments Platform domain
- You'll drive architecture decisions across our API gateway, event infrastructure, webhooks, and reconciliation systems—working closely with the Platform Director and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver a platform that organizations around the world depend on to move money reliably
- Own technical health and quality for the Payments Platform: architecture decisions, sprint processes, release cycles, and release quality
- Set team norms for spec-driven development and AI-assisted delivery; proactively improve specs and practices when AI output falls short of quality standards
- Drive architecture decisions across API gateway and auth, EventBridge/FundraisingBus event infrastructure, webhooks, and Reporting & Reconciliation
- Ensure API and event schemas are designed for durability, extensibility, and idempotency at financial-grade correctness standards
- Partner with the Platform Director on technical sequencing and roadmap delivery
- Collaborate with leads in Online Contribution and Corporate Giving on cross-domain integration points
- Design and build agents to automate repeatable platform engineering workflows, reducing manual overhead for the team
- Ensure team knowledge is structured, current, and consolidated so agents and engineers can operate without ambiguity
- Mentor engineers on the platform team; participate in interviewing and candidate evaluation
- Remove systemic sources of build, test, deployment, and integration friction that limit AI-assisted delivery
Our take
Bonterra is a social good software company supplying an array of solutions to make social impact organizations more efficient, effective, and user-friendly. The company combines products from CyberGrants, EveryAction, Network for Good, Social Solutions, and more into a comprehensive tool suite for everything from case and grant management to fundraising and volunteer work.
As the fastest-growing company of its kind, Bonterra has certainly made a splash and now supports over 180,000 organizations. The company places strong emphasis on keeping "an ear to the ground" to better understand customer needs and continuously improve its platform. This approach is paying off too, with Bonterra now facilitating more than $28B in annual giving while continuing to strengthen its position as a leader in the social good and fundraising space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work in office: Join us in our Austin, Texas, or Washington, D.C. offices if you live nearby
- Work remotely: Enjoy the flexibility of remote work with our work-from-home option. No matter where you live, there's an opportunity for you at Bonterra
- Work hybrid: Reap the benefits of both remote and in-person work with a hybrid approach. Visit the office closest to you and work from home when your schedule allows it.
- Health & wellness: Our robust set of health insurance options will keep you and your loved ones ready for anything. And our holistic wellness program means you can create a plan tailored to what matters most to you
- Generous time off: Our flexible time off policy means you don’t have to worry about a limit on your vacation days. Plus, we offer 15 paid holidays with a focus on DEIB, social justice, and self-care
- Fully paid parental leave: We value your time spent with family. No matter your gender identity, all Bonterra employees can take fully paid parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child
- Development resources: We believe in fostering an environment that encourages growth and development. With access to learning resources, goal-setting activities, and networking opportunities, we work to ensure our workforce is positioned for success
- Giving opportunities: We know that it's imperative for us to live our purpose. Through our employee giving program, Doers of Good, employees have the opportunity to track volunteerism by logging hours and creating events
Company HQ
Stonelake Office Park, Austin, TX
Leadership
Scott Brighton
(CEO)Prior to joining Bonterra in 2023, Scott was the CEO of Auerea Software for 11 years.
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