Givecloud

About Givecloud: 

We're an early-stage software start-up based in Ottawa, Canada. Our team is made up of industry experts and C-Suite Fortune 500 advisors bent on using their collective experience, skills and industry knowledge to disrupt and rescue an underserved market: the non-profit sector.  

 

Our software enables non-profit staff and volunteers to focus more of their time and money on their mission, and less on dated systems and painful admin. Our best-in-class donor experience drives engagement, relationships and ultimately, healthier fundraising, enabling our customers to build trust and credibility with their donors and stakeholders.  

 

The Role: 

We’re searching for a Senior or Intermediate Laravel Developer who is passionate about writing and shipping great code, and making the best product possible.  

 

As a key early hire for our Engineering team, you’ll be instrumental in growing and building out the core Givecloud platform, ensuring that it is performant, high-quality, predictable, and aligned with Givecloud’s mission to untie the hands of World-changers. 

 

Who You Are: 

• You’re continuously learning and increasing your knowledge and skills. 

• A true team player: supportive, collaborative, easy to work with. 
• Highly self-motivated; well-suited to thrive in a remote environment. 
• You care deeply about the developer experience; eg, writing great documentation. 

 

What You’ll Need: 

• 3+ years experience as a Laravel developer. 
• A sophisticated understanding of the main components of Laravel: Eloquent, Queues, Jobs, Service Providers, etc. 
• Soilid database skills (preferably in MySQL, but also one of: Postgres/PostGIS, SQLite, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis). 
• Experience building out APIs / connections to 3rd party applications. 
• Experience using testing frameworks (PHPUnit and Dusk). 

• Experience with our development tooling (Github, Composer, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Command Line). 
• Experienced in, and well-suited to, an environment that develops in quick iterations,  balancing shifting priorities and using retrospection for process improvement. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

 

Why Work Here? 

• We have an amazing culture (high level of trust, asynchronous work, remote-done-right) 
• You’ll be heard, valued, and empowered to leave your mark.  
• You’ll have the opportunity to apply your skills to creative, challenging work, and do something great.  
• You’ll own your tasks and your success, and even a piece of the company.  

• We’re a virtual team, so you can work from home. 

Givecloud values diversity and is committed to creating and fostering a diverse team and an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process.