We're excited to share that Aplos, Raisely, and Keela have come together to form one unified company, Velora, with a shared mission: to help nonprofit organizations thrive. While we continue to offer the products you know and love, we now operate as one team, dedicated to making nonprofit work easier, more impactful, and more sustainable.

Together, our combined expertise spans fundraising, donor management, financial tracking, and communications—offering a powerful suite of tools designed to reduce complexity so nonprofits can focus on what matters most: making a difference.

We're one company with 3 products all servicing customers in the impact space. Working at Velora means that you have the opportunity to build one or across all our products.

We have a combination of merged teams and also teams dedicated to one specific product and you can find details about the work through our job descriptions under the "about the role" section.

About the role:

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team for Aplos. The ideal candidate will have proven Senior level experience in software development. They will utilize their skill set to collaborate with other senior technical leaders to design and build scalable distributed solutions, prioritizing performance, reliability and observability to ensure the customer's user experience above all. This person will be joining the Platform Team, consisting of a team of engineers dedicated to creating and integrating a robust and scalable platform architecture to support our feature-based development teams. They will participate in design and build a strong foundation for our teams by providing shared services, frameworks and patterns that enable them to focus on delivering high-quality features to our users.

Your role:

Collaborate to develop high-quality software designs and architecture for core platform systems
Develop and maintain scalable and reliable micro-services and APIs
Maintain and transition legacy monolith platform
Ensure patterns for instrumentation and observability
Monitor and optimize system performance
Prioritize, set and meet commitments
Share technical expertise, mentor and provide technical guidance to the feature teams
Ensure compliance of design specifications and engineering standards via code reviews

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 in a Senior level role
Mastery of high-level programming languages (NodeJS essential, Java beneficial)
Strong understanding of modern software architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven programming, 12-factor app, reactive systems, C4 model diagrams, domain-driven design, etc
Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and understanding of cloud design principles
Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Comfortable working with Agile methodologies
Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Benefits

Salary - The salary range for this role is between $145,000 - $165,000 CAD. Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and geographic location
Remote work & leave - We're a remote-first company. We also have generous PTO plans (4 weeks of vacation, volunteer time off, plus an office closure from Christmas to New Year's Day!) and support paid parental leave (12 weeks)
Health Coverage & RRSP - We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on RRSP

If you have any questions or require accommodations in the interview process, please reach out

to recruitment@joinvelora.com.

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We know with diversity comes strength. We strive to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.