Senior Software Engineer - Keela

About Velora

Check out our company website: joinvelora.com

Our product websites:

• keela.co
• raisely.com
• aplos.com

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

Location

• Canada Provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta only

Keela is a cloud-based CRM platform tailored specifically for nonprofits, designed to streamline donor management, fundraising, and communication efforts. It offers a suite of tools that enable organizations to manage donor relationships, automate routine tasks like gift acknowledgments and tax receipts, and execute targeted email campaigns. With features such as AI-driven donor insights and customizable dashboards, Keela empowers nonprofits to make data-informed decisions and enhance their fundraising strategies.

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Keela's product. In this role, you’ll lead high‑impact, end‑to‑end projects, partner closely with product and design to ship features that matter to our customers, and influence the technical direction of our stack. You’ll work across the full application lifecycle—from architecture and implementation to observability and incident response—while mentoring other engineers and levelling up how we build. If you’re excited by modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Vue, and building well‑designed systems that make a real difference for mission‑driven organizations, this role is for you.

What will you be doing?

• Operate at a high technical level, leading initiatives and complex projects.
• Influence technical direction and architectural decisions.
• Own projects that have a high impact on the company or product.
• Partner with product management to align engineering work with business goals.
• Mentor multiple engineers, focusing on technical excellence and team culture.
• Contribute to on‑call pager duty, taking responsibility, accountability, and ownership during a high impact incident.
• Proactively contribute to team discussions, code reviews and strategic decisions.
• Write good and clear documentation to express solutions and design systems.

What we’re looking for (requirements)

• 5‑7 years minimum industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Ability to build complex tech design, to high degree of competency, unassisted.
• Strong sense of ownership of projects and delivery.
• Able to decompose projects into component pieces with confidence.
• Respected contributor and mentor.
• Drives process change across teams.
• Effectively communicates with all stakeholders across the business (technical and non‑technical).
• Contributes to patterns + architecture.
• Effectively balances business needs with potential solutions.
• Ability to express solutions and ideas through documentation, diagrams, and RFCs.

Technical Expertise

• Mastery in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, and Java preferred).
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and NoSQL (MongoDB) is a plus.
• Familiar with modern full‑stack frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Express, Django, Laravel) and front‑end frameworks (Vue preferred).
• Strong understanding and desire to perform full‑stack development, including technical design, development, testing, scaling, and observability/monitoring.
• Proficient with tools and technologies such as Git, Postman, command line/shell, SQL, HTML/CSS, and browser developer tools.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and application containerization (Docker) is a plus.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects, mentor team members, and drive best practices across teams.
• Experience decomposing complex projects into actionable components and contributing to architectural patterns.
• Effective communication skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders across business units.
• Ability to build complex tech design, to a high degree of competency, unassisted.

Work Methodologies

• Experienced in Agile/Scrum development practices.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, accountability, and ability to drive projects to completion independently.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer with at least 2 in a Senior role. Preference for experience in a SaaS product company.
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken).
• Experience with tools such as Linear, Notion, GitHub, Slack, and Python.
• Experience with fundraising software is a plus.
• Experience with Cursor and AI agents software development is a plus.

Why work with us?

• Salary – The salary range for this role is $145,000 – $165,000 CAD. Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and geographic location.
• Paid Time Off
  • Canada: Everyone gets 4 weeks paid leave plus 11 days of public holidays, as well as an ‘end of year shutdown’ which is an extra 2 week company holiday. You are entitled to generous paid sick leave.
• Work remotely – We’re a remote‑first company – live and work wherever you’re happiest.
• Training – We’ll support you when you want to learn new skills or pay for conference or course tickets.
• Health Coverage & Retirement
  • Canada: We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on Retirement.

Equal Employment and Diversity Commitment

Aplos, Raisely and Keela 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 and leaves of absence, compensation and training.