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As the Nonprofit Marketing Platform trusted by over 1,300 nonprofits, Feathr is purpose-built to help our customers unlock more results, time, and confidence.

Feathr's software marketing platform equips nonprofits with the tools they need to build purposeful connections with their community and grow impact with confidence.

We're working on building an amazing culture at Feathr, where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you're ready to grow and "help the helpers" you've come to the right place.

Compensation: $90,000 base, and a bonus potential of up to 12%
Benefits: Fully Remote, Health/ Dental/ Vision, Paid Holidays/ Vacation/ Sick time, and more!

Feathr's SaaS platform is a critical component of the value we deliver to our clients. As a Backend Software Engineer, you contribute to the technical systems that meet the advertising, marketing, and analytics needs of our diverse customer base. You write and ship code that makes a real impact—collaborating with your team to develop features, fix bugs, improve performance, and learn the ins and outs of a production system. You're supported by senior engineers and expected to grow toward increasing independence and ownership over time.

• 2+ years of backend software engineering experience

• Professional experience contributing to software that ships to real users

• Working knowledge of Python, Flask, and at least one of: Elasticsearch, MongoDB, or Redis

• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor); we use these daily and consider them core to our workflow

• Solid knowledge of key data structures and algorithms

• Comfortable writing and maintaining automated unit tests and integration tests

• Working knowledge of MongoDB queries and data modeling

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch or similar search/analytics engines

• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and services (S3, SQS, or EC2)

• Awareness of security and compliance considerations in enterprise software

• Able to work in both synchronous and asynchronous environments with guidance

• Effectively leverage AI coding assistants to accelerate development, debug issues, and explore unfamiliar codebases

• Nice to have: Experience with Docker, event stream processing, Kubernetes, or distributed systems

• Pragmatic and customer-oriented—you build software to help customers solve real problems

• Curious and eager to learn; you dig into unfamiliar systems and ask good questions

• A methodical problem-solver who isn't afraid to say "I don't know yet" and work through it

• Clear communicator; you can explain what you're working on and ask for help when you need it

• Collaborative team player invested in Feathr's success, the product team's goals, and your own growth

• Receptive to feedback and motivated to improve your craft

• Adaptable and comfortable shifting priorities when critical issues arise

• Design and implement backend features and services that ship to real users

• Solve technical problems and document their solutions for the team

• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other teams to design and develop features

• Write clean, testable, performant code and review code written by your teammates

• Debug and resolve backend issues—performance bottlenecks, data consistency problems, production incidents

• Deploy your changes to production and monitor them for correctness and performance

• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing

• Ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of Feathr's data and operations

• Iterate on feedback and continuously improve technical solutions
  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Compensation:

Compensation for this position is $90,000 annually with the potential to earn an additional 12% of base salary.

Location:

This role is open to remote candidates located within the United States, with a preference for those in the EST or CST time zones. There is also an option to work from our headquarters in Gainesville, FL. If you aren’t familiar, Gainesville is a hip, mid-sized city with a highly innovative population and an attainable standard of living.

Interview Process:

As a part of our commitment to creating a fair, equitable, and positive interview experience for all candidates, we offer full transparency of our interview stages to give applicants an idea of the time and effort involved. Additionally, each interview stage consists of standardized questions and rubrics with a scoring system to ensure a consistent and fair assessment practice of all candidates.

• HR Information Screen - The Talent Acquisition Team will invite candidates that move forward to a 20-30 minute virtual interview. This conversation will be focused on relevant work experience, compensation, role overview, and answering any questions the candidate has.

• Hiring Manager Interview- 45 minute virtual meeting with to answer role-specific questions and dive deeper into your background and experience.

• Work Assignment - Candidates will be given a work assignment prompt to complete a project that is relevant to the work they can expect in the role. You are given ample amount of time to complete this project before turning in.

• Panel Interview - 1 hour interview with two to three key members of the team. This interview will dive deeper into the role, technical knowledge, and requirements of the position. You will also utilize this time to review any questions related to your work assignment.

• Offer - The Talent Acquisition Team will reach out with the details of the offer to discuss with the candidate.
  

Interviewing at Feathr

We've prepared a comprehensive candidate resource that provides valuable insights and tips for interviewing at Feathr. It covers everything from common interview questions to helpful advice on how to make the most of your interview experience with us. Access the resource here.

We encourage all applicants to take advantage of this resource to help prepare for their interviews and gain a deeper understanding of what to expect when applying to join our Flock.

Benefits & Perks for full-time employees

We love our Flock and the work they do! But let’s be honest, life isn’t just about work. So we created a perks and benefits package that aims to help our team grow by including their wellness, families, passions, and personal time. 

• Fully remote

• Full vision, dental, and ~99% health insurance for employees

• Sick time off

• Vacation time off

• Extended Wintr Break

• Parental Leave

• Wellness Reimbursement Credit

• Home Office Stipend

• Professional Development Budget

• Team hangouts and events 

Culture:

Feathr defines culture as the secret sauce that makes our flock members want to come to work everyday and do their best work. Like every company, we have an acronym that conveys the most important aspects of the culture we strive to have. 

• Practicality: Progress Over Perfection

• Ambition: When Feathr wins, We all win

• Candor: Better communication, Better results

• Trust: Assume the best, Share openly

• Service: We exist to fix

This acronym is only as useful as the integrity of the people who reference it and believe in it. Every person at Feathr will face challenges, the most important quality is a commitment to work through those challenges with self-awareness and honesty. 

Feathr is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, if you think you’d drive value in this position, please apply.