<div>GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world's poorest households. In doing so, we aim to accelerate the end of extreme poverty globally.</div>

<div>GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by The Economist, NPR, TED, and The Washington Post. We are one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026. <br><br></div><div>Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth. Curious about what it's really like to work here? Read our values and hear from the people who do. If they resonate, this could be a great fit!<br><br></div><div><strong>Location: Remote, with a requirement to overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours. </strong>We can only employ people in certain places at the moment, so it's worth checking our <strong>current list of eligible countries</strong> to see if yours is included. If you're based elsewhere, it's not an automatic no, but do flag it early with your recruiter. <strong>We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.</strong><br><br></div><div><strong>About this role</strong></div><div>GD moves cash directly into the hands of people living in poverty, often in contexts with limited infrastructure and oversight. Protecting that cash from fraud — whether attempted by external bad actors, field staff, or recipients — is core to our mission and to donor trust. Internal Audit is GD's second line of defense against fraud, and this role sits at the center of it.<br><br></div><div>We're looking for a Data Analyst who can turn raw operational, payments, and enrollment data into a clear picture of where fraud risk is emerging across our programs, translate those patterns into recommendations that change how projects are designed, and partner with our Product team to build the tools that help us catch fraud earlier and more reliably. You'll move fluidly between deep analysis, clear storytelling to stakeholders who aren't data specialists, and hands-on collaboration with engineers and product managers.<br><br></div><div>This role sits within Internal Audit but has a dotted reporting line to the Director of Data in order to ensure we meet the organisational technical quality bar and standardise analytical and engineering practises and ways of working across the organisation. Internal Audit owns fraud-risk questions, indicator definitions, investigative analysis, and interpretation, while the central Data team owns shared data infrastructure, production pipelines, governed data models, and platform standards. The analyst bridges the two: contributing domain requirements, validation, and quality assurance, and ensuring this work aligns with organization-wide analytical and engineering practices. <br><br></div><div>You are as comfortable in a spreadsheet or SQL console as you are in a room with country program leads explaining why a trend matters and what to do about it. You default to evidence over instinct, but you know that a good insight is only useful if someone acts on it.<br><br></div><div><strong>What you'll do</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Analyze fraud risk trends:</strong> Mine enrollment, payment, survey, and field-operations data to identify patterns, anomalies, and emerging fraud typologies (e.g., duplicate enrollments, collusion, identity fraud, diversion of funds) across GD's programs and geographies.</li><li><strong>Design and oversee fraud-risk indicators:</strong> Build, validate, and maintain recurring monitoring in partnership with central data and operational control owners.</li><li><strong>Identify data quality issues</strong> in data currently collected by Internal Audit, and help design and implement process improvements to resolve them.</li><li><strong>Embed data-driven thinking into IA design:</strong> Identify fraud-related decisions where GiveDirectly should be more data-driven, and incorporate this into Internal Audit process design.</li><li><strong>Translate findings into action:</strong> Package analysis into clear, credible briefs and presentations for country teams, operations leadership, and senior management, with concrete recommendations for reducing fraud risk.</li><li><strong>Support fraud investigations:</strong> Provide data pulls, quantify exposure, and help reconstruct events for specific cases — ensuring analysis is reproducible and audit-ready, with documented queries, data lineage, assumptions, exclusions, and QA checks.</li><li><strong>Partner with Product and Central Data on fraud-detection tooling:</strong> Translate validated risk signals into product requirements, contribute domain expertise and acceptance criteria, and test whether controls operate as intended — while maintaining clear ownership and independence boundaries.</li><li><strong>Partner with Data Engineering</strong> on upstream data quality and pipeline improvements, while owning the downstream analytical layer.</li><li><strong>Strengthen methodology over time:</strong> Back-test risk indicators against investigated cases, monitor precision, coverage, and false-positive rates, and refine based on outcomes and emerging risks.</li><li><strong>Communicate uncertainty honestly:</strong> Distinguish confirmed fraud from suspicious-but-unconfirmed patterns, helping stakeholders make decisions without overstating findings.</li></ul><div><strong>What you'll bring</strong></div><ul><li>4+ years of experience in data analysis, audit, risk, or a related analytical role; experience in internal audit, fraud/forensics, or a nonprofit/development context is a plus but not required.</li><li>Strong SQL skills and comfort working directly in large, sometimes messy operational datasets (Salesforce data, payments data, survey data).</li><li>Experience using Python for reproducible analysis, automation, record linkage, anomaly investigation, or data-quality testing is strongly preferred.</li><li>Familiarity with analytical notebooks, version control, and documenting analysis so it can be reviewed and reproduced by others is a plus.</li><li>Experience with visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Power BI) and/or Python/R for analysis.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous, exploratory analysis into a clear, defensible narrative for non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Experience or strong interest in working cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to translate analytical needs into product requirements.</li><li>Sound judgment on evidence quality: knowing the difference between a real signal and noise, and communicating that distinction transparently.</li><li>High integrity and discretion — this role will have visibility into sensitive information about staff, recipients, and active investigations.</li><li>Alignment with GiveDirectly's values, including prioritizing recipient wellbeing above all else.</li></ul><div><strong><strong>Compensation</strong></strong></div><div>At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy <strong>here</strong>.<br><br></div><div>Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.<br><br></div><div><strong>United States</strong><br><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $107,070</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 10% (~$10,707, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $12,527 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $117,777</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> $21,393</li></ul><div><strong>United Kingdom</strong><br><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> £70,250</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 10% (~£7,025, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be £8,219 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £77,275</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> £2,760</li></ul><div><strong>Kenya</strong><br><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $72,550</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 10% (~$7,255, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $8,488 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $79,805</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> $0</li></ul><div>This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process. <br><br></div><div><strong><strong>Why work at GiveDirectly?</strong></strong></div><div>At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:<br><br></div><ul><li>A supportive team that works hard and cares hard</li><li>A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)</li><li>Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take</li><li>Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development</li></ul><div> #LI-REMOTE<br><br></div><div><strong>Working at GiveDirectly</strong><br><br></div><div>GiveDirectly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to the person’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.<br><br></div><div><em>Flagging for US applicants:</em> We invite you to "Know Your Rights" as an applicant.<br><br></div><div><strong>Commitment to Safeguarding</strong><br><br></div><div>As a global organization working with communities to eliminate extreme poverty, GiveDirectly takes the safeguarding of its recipients, staff, and partners seriously. To that end, GiveDirectly is a member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and will systematically check with previous employers about any abuse or misconduct related matters involving potential new hires. We may also employ other robust pre-hire screens, including in-depth reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens.<br><br></div><div>These efforts help us continue to build and maintain trust with the communities we work with, and prevent abuse to our recipients and staff.<br><br></div><div>**GD is committed to observing all local, national and international laws that protect people and basic human rights of all. GD is committed to a policy of “zero tolerance when it comes to preventing, reporting, or responding to any form of abuse or exploitation.” and expects anyone who works for GD to uphold the protection and safeguarding of our recipients as a priority.**<br><br></div><div><strong>Reasonable Accommodations</strong><br><br></div><div>We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the role, please email us at careers@givedirectly.org with the email subject “Accommodation Needed”. We will work with you to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to support your needs.<br><br></div><div><strong>Want to put your best foot forward on your GiveDirectly application?</strong> Take a look at our Candidate Application Prep Guide<strong>!</strong><br><br></div><div><strong><strong>Referrals</strong></strong></div><div>Know the right person for this role? Please consider <strong>referring them</strong>. We offer a reward of $3,000 for a Senior Manager or above role, and $500 for a Manager role, paid if we end up hiring your referral. Thank you for sending great people our way!<br><br></div> Departments: Internal Audit

Data Analyst, Internal Audit

<h3>About GiveDirectly</h3>
<p>GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by The Economist, NPR, TED, and The Washington Post. We are one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026.</p>
<p>Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth. Curious about what it's really like to work here? Read our values and hear from the people who do. If they resonate, this could be a great fit!</p>
<p>We’re growing at incredible speed, and expect to hit $1B in revenue in 2026 with significant growth forecast for 2027. We’re hiring a <strong>Chief Technology Officer</strong> to lead the building and rebuilding of the technology, systems and ways of working that will enable a sustained $5B+ p/a operation.</p>
<p>You will build software that safely and securely moves billions of dollars to millions of vulnerable people in some of the poorest and highest need parts of the world. This will require applying excellent engineering, team building and organizational judgment to complex, high-stakes operations: identity and fraud management, machine learning on large but imperfect datasets (cell phone data, satellite imagery, government registries), mobile money integrations, low-connectivity environments, rapidly evolving requirements all in diverse regulatory environments and country contexts. You’ll need to keep our legacy technology stack stable and performant, while in parallel building new systems from the ground up for our next level of scale.</p>
<p>You will lead engineering, data, security and enterprise technology – with a small, mighty and rapidly growing engineering team of ~15, and the expectation that this can at least double to ~30 in the next 12 months if you want it to. You’ll report to a CEO with deep experience running technology companies, and partner with our VP Product.</p>
<p>This role is remote, with working hours between US Eastern Time and East African Time, and some preference for candidates in our office hubs of New York, London, or Nairobi.</p>
<h3>What we’re looking for:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>An exceptional hirer, manager and organizer of technical talent.</strong> Proven record identifying, hiring, developing and retaining excellent engineers and engineering leaders, and creating team processes that consistently deliver software with quality and velocity.</li>
<li><strong>Deep technical judgment, applied close to the work.</strong> You can evaluate major designs, pressure-test architecture and build-vs-buy decisions, and recognize when a team is heading the wrong way, without becoming the primary implementer. Low-ego: you’ll investigate a problem yourself when that’s what the situation requires.</li>
<li><strong>Business judgment and decisiveness under ambiguity.</strong> You’re not just a technical leader, you’re also a business executive. You understand the business, are a strong cross-functional partner, and have a history of good judgment when navigating tradeoffs of long vs. short term, speed, reliability, security, flexibility, cost, technical quality, and user impact.</li>
<li><strong>AI first.</strong> You have a point of view on where AI meaningfully changes engineering productivity and organizational capability, and you’ve moved a team from experimentation to real, measured use. You can set the tools, culture, goals, and guardrails that leverage the opportunities and mitigate the risks of an AI first engineering culture.</li>
<li><strong>Embody and set an example for GD values.</strong> We take our values incredibly seriously, and expect our leaders to embody, nurture, and promote them in the way they work and the teams they build.</li>
<li><strong>Advantages, not requirements.</strong> Experience in an operationally complex or regulated domain (fintech, payments, humanitarian response, global development); systems involving financial controls, fraud risk, identity, or sensitive recipient data; operating across multiple countries, particularly lower-income or infrastructure-constrained ones; leading both modern product engineering and enterprise technology.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What you’ll do</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Define our technology vision and target stack.</strong> Own the technical strategy for technology-first delivery at $5B+/year: architecture, platforms, build-vs-buy, and what we retire. Work with executive, product, finance, risk, and data leaders to turn program and product strategy into a sequenced, credible portfolio of technical investments.</li>
<li><strong>Balance a demanding portfolio.</strong> You'll manage six workstreams that all matter and won't all move at once: (1) building our new cash delivery stack (remote-first verification, fraud prevention, massive volume) (2) stabilizing our legacy stack until switchover, then managing the migration; (3) donor-facing fundraising products; (4) our global emergency cash system (and eventual white-labelling of that product); (5) enterprise technology; (6) internal tooling, platform, and cybersecurity. Deciding sequencing and staffing across these (and saying "not yet" credibly) is the job.</li>
<li><strong>Build and grow an exceptional technology organization.</strong> Recruit outstanding engineering and technology talent, design the org GiveDirectly needs at its next stage of scale (engineering, product, data, security, infrastructure, enterprise systems), and create the accountability, decision rights, and career paths to sustain high talent density. Grow the engineering team from 15 to ~30 with a lean but durable management structure.</li>
<li><strong>Own the technical direction and quality bar.</strong> Guide consequential decisions on integrations, data, security, reliability, and technical debt. Ensure our systems can safely support a major increase in transaction volume, geographic reach, and organizational dependence on technology. Set a pragmatic quality bar appropriate to high-stakes financial delivery while preserving speed.</li>
<li><strong>Lead across organizational boundaries.</strong> Serve as a member of GiveDirectly’s executive team, reporting to the CEO and bringing technology into major strategic and operating decisions. Help non-technical leaders understand technical constraints and costs, build credibility with country and functional leaders by understanding their realities, and force clarity when priorities, ownership, or tradeoffs are ambiguous.</li>
<li><strong>Travel.</strong> Approximately 4–6 trips per year, including visits to GiveDirectly countries of operation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compensation</h3>
<p>At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy so pay is consistent across comparable roles.</p>
<p><strong>Total Compensation (US) of $366,000 – $518,000</strong><strong> comprised of:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Base Salary: $300,000 – $375,000</li>
<li>Bonus: $45,000-$112,000 (bonus is % based and decided based on org-wide performance, we will share full methodology during the hiring process)</li>
<li>Annual Benefits Stipend: ~$21,000</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Total Compensation (UK) of £225,000 – £317,000 comprised of:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Base Salary: £193,400 – £241,700</li>
<li>Bonus: £29,000 – £72,500 (bonus is % based and decided based on org-wide performance, we will share full methodology during the hiring process)</li>
<li>Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Total Compensation (Kenya) of $333,000 – $467,000 comprised of:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Base Salary: $282,500 – $353,100</li>
<li>Bonus: $42,000 – $106,000 (bonus is % based and decided based on org-wide performance, we will share full methodology during the hiring process)</li>
<li>Annual Benefits Stipend: $8,453</li>
</ul>

Chief Technology Officer

<div><strong>Location: </strong><strong><em>This role is fully remote but will directly manage team members spanning East Africa Time to US Pacific Time. You must overlap with East Africa Time by at least 3 hours. As an example, 6PM East Africa Time is 11AM US Eastern time in the summer and 10AM in the winter. In practice, if you are in the Eastern US timezone, that means being regularly available for 8AM meetings and some 7AM ones. We know people have commitments like school drop-offs, so you’re encouraged to set a schedule that works for you—as long as there’s sufficient overlap with the team. </em></strong><em>We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.</em></div><div><br><strong>About this role</strong></div><div>We’re hiring a Director of Engineering to build a best-in-class engineering department in a moment of rapid growth; we’ve more than doubled our engineering team in the last year and are continuing to hire.</div><div>Your initial focus will be on our cash delivery platform: you'll own the technical systems that deliver the next $4B to people in extreme poverty, our goal for the next nine years, with scenarios on the table that would require us to scale much faster. We recently launched a platform rebuild as a greenfield project, and the work ahead is scaling it from initial launch to delivering billions. This role is deliberately sequenced: you'll start close to the ground — directly managing engineers, partnering with our platform product lead on roadmap and delivery, and getting deep in the operational details (on-call, incident response) — because we believe the leader who builds that context firsthand is the one who can design the right organization for the next level of scale.</div><div><br>You will own maintaining and scaling a strong engineering culture through rapid growth: shaping how we hire and structure teams, recruiting and retaining a high talent density team, and building strong operating processes and culture that encourage open debate in search of the best outcomes for recipients rather than attachment to being right or looking good; continuous learning, improvement, and adoption of new tools; deep product ownership in service of impact for recipients; and strong judgment about tradeoffs. You'll set a high technical quality bar, pressure-testing designs and tradeoffs while still giving a very senior team high autonomy.</div><div><br>You’ll shape our multi-year technical strategy: where the platform should be shared across product lines versus split or modular, when to build versus buy versus extend, how to sequence major architectural transitions, and how to balance investment with feature development. You optimize for recipient impact, not the most interesting technical problem. We're not driven by hot new technical trends; we're building the hard tech that matters to recipients — integrations with mobile money rails and delivery in low-connectivity contexts.</div><div><br>You'll represent engineering at the senior leadership level and own the interface between engineering and team members who haven't worked heavily with a product development organization before. That means learning our programs and the realities of our field teams, and working with partner teams to build our development practices, whether building trust that an MVP is a starting point rather than a final answer, or helping teams see why it’s worth taking time out of their urgent delivery goals to give feedback on a demo or try something new.</div><div><br>As GiveDirectly scales, technology is what allows us to reach more people without breaking. Your leadership means getting more cash to the people who need it most.</div><div><br><strong>Reports to: VP of Technology</strong></div><div><strong>Level</strong>: Director</div><div><strong>Travel Requirement: </strong>Must be able to travel ~2-3 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats or field visits</div><div><br><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></div><ul><li>Own the engineering organization for our cash delivery platform: its structure, staffing strategy, and operating model — and redesign these as the team grows, including deciding when and how to build out a management layer (today: 6 engineers on the cash delivery platform, 11 engineers total; additional hires planned this year)</li><li>Own multi-year technical strategy for the platform: defining interfaces and boundaries between domains, determining when to build versus buy versus extend, and how to sequence major architectural transitions — driving the biggest bets to a decision with the Platform Product Lead, VP of Technology, and leadership</li><li>Protect and scale the culture as we grow: open debate, product ownership, continuous improvement, and strong engineering foundations</li><li>Own engineering delivery — the commitments leadership and stakeholders plan against, platform reliability, and the trade-offs between roadmap speed and platform investment — in close partnership with the Platform Product Lead</li><li>Drive operational excellence, including on-call, incident response, code quality, testing, AI, and deployment practices</li><li>Represent engineering at the leadership level: translate technical realities into business decisions and vice versa, and partner with diverse stakeholders to create the enabling environment for product development</li><li>Coach and develop engineers through 1:1s, feedback, career planning, and performance management; hire, onboard, and retain a strong, inclusive team</li><li>Set the technical quality bar: stay close enough to the technical work to weigh in on architecture, review designs, and help the team make sound trade-offs, without becoming the bottleneck</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>What you’ll bring:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values</strong> and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.</li><li>Language Requirement: English</li><li>5+ years managing engineers, including experience leading multiple teams or a larger engineering organization through full delivery cycles</li><li>10+ years of overall industry experience building production software, with a strong backend foundation (databases, cloud services, APIs)</li><li>Demonstrated ability to recruit, coach, develop, and retain engineers, building and retaining a talent-dense and inclusive team during periods of high growth</li><li>Track record of building a strong engineering culture including candid, ego-free debate, deep product ownership, and continuously raising the bar on craft and tooling (including agentic engineering)</li><li>You enable speed through focus and create clarity in ambiguity: cutting through complexity to the strategic kernel and shielding the team from distraction, so a senior team can move fast and autonomously</li><li>Strong technical judgment driven by the mission, not ego: you can pressure-test architecture decisions with very senior engineers, have made consequential calls and lived with the results, and weigh technical and non-technical tradeoffs by recipient impact</li><li>Energized to build product-development fluency in an organization that's relatively new to it: you've successfully partnered with non-technical stakeholders and leaders, and you’re excited by this, rather than daunted by it</li></ul><div><br><strong>Compensation</strong></div><div>At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.&nbsp;</div><div><br>Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.</div><div><br><strong>United States</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $200,000</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~$30,000, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be ~$35,100)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target:</strong> $230,000+</li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> ~$33,427</li></ul><div><br>This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.&nbsp;</div>

Director of Engineering

<div>GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by The Economist, NPR, TED, and The Washington Post. We are one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth. Curious about what it's really like to work here? Read our values and hear from the people who do. If they resonate, this could be a great fit!<br><br></div><div><strong><br>Location: </strong><strong><em>This role is fully remote but must be available to meet with East Africa timezone by at least 2 hours a couple of times a week. </em></strong><em>We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.<br></em><br></div><div><strong><br>About this role<br></strong><br></div><div>Technology plays a central role in how GiveDirectly delivers cash—whether that’s identifying recipients in hard-to-reach places, sending payments quickly after disasters, or powering the platforms our donors use to give.<br><br></div><div>We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build the systems behind this work. Our engineering team still operates like a startup within GiveDirectly—lean, fast-moving, and high-autonomy. You’ll lean into product thinking, help shape the roadmap, and collaborate closely across disciplines to solve real-world problems. The specific team you’ll join is still being finalized—it could be:<br><br></div><ul><li>Our <strong>Programs Engineering</strong> team (getting cash in the hands of people experiencing extreme poverty),</li><li>Our <strong>Fundraising Engineering</strong> team (raising more money for recipients), or</li><li>Our <strong>International Rapid Response</strong> team (getting cash to disaster-affected communities within 5 days of a crisis—anywhere in the world)</li></ul><div><br>No matter the team, you’ll play a central role in scaling our impact: getting more money, to more people, more efficiently.</div><div><br>This is a hands-on role with real ownership. You’ll help shape architecture, ship production-ready code, and work side-by-side with teammates across product, data, and operations. We’re looking for someone excited to wear multiple hats, move quickly, and define what great engineering looks like in a mission-driven org<br><br></div><div><strong>Level: Senior Software Engineer<br></strong><br></div><div><strong>Travel Requirement: </strong>Must be able to travel ~1-2 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats or field visits.<br><br></div><div><strong>What you’ll do:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Design and build scalable, reliable systems that power our core operations—whether that’s donor platforms, systems that deliver payments directly to recipients, or crisis response tools reaching hundreds of thousands of people globally.</li><li>Own end-to-end development of new features and services, from architecture through deployment and monitoring.</li><li>Improve our developer workflows by strengthening CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual steps, and increasing test coverage.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, ops, data) to understand real-world needs and ship tools that directly support program delivery in the field.</li><li>Debug and resolve production issues across our stack, with a focus on root cause analysis and long-term fixes.</li><li>Advocate for sustainable engineering practices, including testing, documentation, and monitoring</li><li>Help shape our tech roadmap with an eye toward scale, maintainability, and recipient experience</li></ul><div><strong><br>What you’ll bring:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values</strong> and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.</li><li>Language Requirement: English</li><li>4+ years of industry experience creating production-caliber software and systems</li><li>Experience with backend architecture: databases, cloud services, APIs</li><li>Experience building infrastructure to deploy software</li><li>Experience with strongly-typed, object-oriented programming such as Java, C#, Go, etc. and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, etc.</li><li>High degree of ownership and autonomy - you proactively advocate for ways to improve systems and constantly leave our codebase in a better state than you found it</li><li>Strong analytical skills and communication - able to break down complex problems, describe technical trade-offs, and collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g. technical program managers, product managers)</li><li>Bonus: Experience using Python and AWS in a production environment</li><li>Bonus: experience with payments/financial software and/or experience with microservice/serverless architecture</li></ul><div><strong><br>Compensation<br></strong><br></div><div><br>At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy <strong>here</strong>.<br><br></div><div><br>Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.</div><div><strong><br>United States<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $157,500</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~$23,625, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $27,641 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $181,125+</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> $21,393</li></ul><div><strong><br>United Kingdom<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> £108,150</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~£16,223, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be £18,981 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £124,373+</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> £2,760</li></ul><div><strong><br>Kenya<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $91,500</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~$13,725, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $16,063 in 2025)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $105,225+</strong></li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> $8,453</li></ul><div><br>This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong><br>Why work at GiveDirectly?<br></strong><br></div><div><br>At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:<br><br></div><ul><li>A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement&nbsp;</li><li>A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow</li><li>A competitive salary, including bonus</li><li>A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)</li><li>Unlimited PTO (that we encourage staff to take!)</li><li>Desk allowance and flexible work location</li></ul><div><strong><br>About this specific hiring process<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Take-home coding assignment</li><li>Live Coding (60 mins)</li><li>Systems Design (60 mins)</li><li>Project Deep Dive + Behavioral (60 mins)</li></ul><div><br>*It’s possible that there will be adjustments to this interview process. Any changes will be communicated to you during the process.</div>

Senior Software Engineer

<div><strong>About GiveDirectly</strong></div><div>GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world’s poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that $70B of cash transfers would be required to eliminate the poverty gap; the aid sector currently spends $135B each year, much of it on evidence-free interventions. GiveDirectly wants to change that, establishing cash transfers as a benchmark for foreign aid – as the index fund is a benchmark for the financial industry – and in the process accelerating the end of extreme poverty.</div><div><br>GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011, delivered cash to more than 1.5 million people in 15 different countries. We’ve also supported large-scale, experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role within it) have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.</div><div><br>Our culture is candid, analytical, agile, and non-hierarchical. Our global team of ~150, and country operations teams of ~650, together come from 21 different countries speaking 69 different languages. From software engineers to seasoned humanitarian workers, former management consultants to public servants, researchers to field operations -- it’s an incredible group of people.</div><div><br>Our values are central and deliberately opinionated. We genuinely center the people we serve in our decision making, and strive to build an ambitious, dynamic and high performing environment. We strongly encourage you to read through our values carefully, if they reflect how you like to work and energize you, this could be a great fit.</div><div><br>We work hard to create an environment in which all our team members can thrive, succeed and grow.&nbsp; We support flexibility, take care of each other, have fun, and create professional growth opportunities.</div><div><br><strong>Level:</strong> Senior Manager<br><strong>Location:</strong> Remote<br><strong>Reports To: </strong>&nbsp;Sr. Director of Communications</div><div><br><strong>About the Role</strong></div><div>We are seeking a Social Content Lead to lead GiveDirectly’s presence across our social platforms, focusing on brand building, audience building, reach/engagement, and lead generation to drive our top level goal: <strong>raise more money to be delivered to people in extreme poverty</strong>. &nbsp;</div><div><br>This senior manager would own execution &amp; strategy across GiveDirectly primary public accounts (LinkedIn, X, Instagram), other platforms( Substack, YouTube, Facebook, BlueSky, TikTok, Reddit, podcast, &amp; newsletter) and paid collaborations with online creators (e.g. Elsa, Blair, Simon), while also supporting our principles with their thought leadership accounts (e.g. Nick, Caroline, Caitlin).&nbsp;</div><div><br>This is a new role that would be asked to answer strategic questions: Which channels should we invest (or divest) in to achieve our top level goal? What content and channels perform best at accomplishing that goal? What new approaches should we test? How can we measure success?&nbsp;</div><div><br>This senior manager would also own execution (with support), ensuring that our channels effectively showcase our unique model, values, &amp; impact in ways that are compelling, credible, human, surprising/funny, and — most importantly — break through the noise.&nbsp;</div><div><br>You’ll collaborate with our Growth, Communications, Research, and Program teams to highlight recipient&nbsp; stories, translate data and findings into accessible content, support giving campaigns, and strengthen how GiveDirectly shows up online.</div><div><br>This role is not an on-camera personality role. Instead, you’ll be behind the scenes, building a strong digital presence and shaping how the world sees our work.<br><br></div><div><strong>This Senior Manager Should Spike On</strong></div><ul><li><strong>💡Creativity &amp; speed: </strong>Comes up many novel ideas for content &amp; collabs, tapping into current trends while they last.</li><li><strong>🛠️High ownership, output, &amp; quality:</strong> Creates high-quality work quickly and reliably, using discretion to represent the organization online.</li><li><strong>📱Digital native storytelling instinct:</strong> Knows what plays best on ever-changing platforms, understanding what makes content resonate emotionally and intellectually.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>🧪Strategic, entrepreneurial, &amp; analytical:</strong> Comfortable testing, iterating, and learning from results – balancing long-term brand strategy with day-to-day execution.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></div><div><br><strong>Social Media Strategy &amp; Brand Management</strong></div><ul><li>Lead GiveDirectly’s social media strategy and posting calendar across all major platforms&nbsp;</li><li>Build and refine a repeatable social playbook &amp; templates that balances storytelling, education, and credibility.</li><li>Define goals for each channel and measurement framework.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Content Creation &amp; Management</strong></div><ul><li>Create and edit content (posts, visuals, short videos, audio) that highlight GiveDirectly’s programs, research, and impact.&nbsp;</li><li>Collaborate with Communications, Research, and Program teams to translate data and stories into compelling, public-facing content.</li><li>Manage publishing cadence, community engagement, and platform optimization.</li><li>Guide tone, messaging, and publishing style for each account, ensuring consistency without homogenizing.</li><li>Ensure all channels move in harmony during product launches, campaigns, and announcements.</li><li>Stay ahead of platform updates, algorithm shifts, and emerging content formats.</li><li>Proactively suggest new ideas, tests, and experiments.</li><li>Capitalize on relevant trends while ensuring all content aligns with brand guidelines and messaging priorities.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaboration with Content Creators</strong></div><ul><li>Identify, approach, and negotiate agreements with highly aligned and impactful content creators for paid collaborations, building a network to activate during rapid-onset emergency responses.</li><li>Pitch and oversee strong creative concepts for collaborators.</li><li>Surface ideas for unpaid collaborators for the surrogate &amp; media team.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Internal Collaboration</strong></div><ul><li>Partner with internal teams - Growth, Communications, Research, and Country Programs - to identify stories, earned media, campaigns, blogs worth sharing.</li><li>Support leadership and surrogates in expanding their thought leadership.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Measurement &amp; Optimization</strong></div><ul><li>Track KPIs across channels (reach, engagement, follower growth, traffic, retention, and authority signals).&nbsp;</li><li>Understand what positive, meaningful engagement looks like, not just vanity metrics.</li><li>Monitor social chatter and sentiment; escalate when needed.</li><li>Provide periodic reporting with clear insights and recommendations.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Qualifications (Must Haves)</strong></div><ul><li>5+ years of proven ability to grow social media presence for a brand, content creator, or public figures with larger engagement than GiveDirectly. &nbsp;</li><li>Strong writing and editing skills, with a clear, confident, and empathetic voice.</li><li>Experience with content design or light editing tools (Canva, CapCut, Adobe Suite, Riverside).</li><li>Demonstrated ability to turn complex or technical topics into clear, engaging content.</li><li>Strong project management skills and ability to prioritize, manage multiple workstreams, and deliver on time.</li><li>Strong strategic thinking, you know how to build a cohesive brand across multiple channels.</li><li>Deep understanding of social algorithms, audience behavior, and content performance.</li><li>Comfort with social analytics tools (ex. Meta Suite, Sprout, Later, Hootsuite).</li><li>Deep alignment with GiveDirectly’s values and mission.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Nice to Haves</strong></div><ul><li>Experience in social storytelling for journalism or social impact sectors.</li><li>Understanding of paid social strategy and how organic content complements it.</li><li>Background or interest in global development, poverty reduction, or social innovation.</li><li>Strong understanding of how to breakthrough with tech &amp; finance audiences in the U.S. + Europe</li></ul><div><br><strong>Where this role sits within GiveDirectly</strong></div><ul><li>This senior manager is part of the Communications team, reporting to the Senior Director of Communications (Tyler) for the first 6 months.&nbsp;</li><li>Their work will be supported by GiveDirectly’s field content, research &amp; insights, growth, surrogates, press, &amp; design staff.&nbsp;</li><li>In addition to run-rate work, they will provide key support for emergency cash responses (e.g.), end of year giving (e.g.), research disseminations (e.g.), and other campaigns.&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br><strong>Compensation&nbsp;</strong></div><div>At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.</div><ul><li>The United States base salary for this role is $109,200.</li><li>The Kenya base salary for this role is $77,500.</li><li>The UK base salary for this role is £71,400</li></ul><div>This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, Kenya or UK, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.</div><div><br><strong>Why work at GiveDirectly?</strong></div><div>At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:</div><ul><li>A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement&nbsp;</li><li>A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow</li><li>A competitive salary, including bonus</li><li>A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)</li><li>Flexible paid time off</li><li>Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development</li></ul>

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