Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety at Givebutter
$170,000–$190,000
Jul 21, 2026
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Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on individual contributor role focused on building and maintaining fraud detection and risk decisioning infrastructure for a nonprofit fundraising platform. Day-to-day work involves designing rule engines, scoring pipelines, and event-driven risk systems, as well as creating internal investigation and case-management tooling for a Trust & Safety operations team. The role suits an experienced backend engineer with a background in fraud, abuse prevention, or adjacent risk domains.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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The role is remote but restricted to one of 10 listed US hub cities (Austin, Denver, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Seattle, Nashville); CBSA is set to Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX as the first-listed hub, though the actual candidate location may vary.
The hard-required skills around fraud detection, risk decisioning, and event-driven systems are stated in firm language under the Requirements section but name no specific named technology — they are captured as domain capabilities rather than named tools. Only concrete named technologies are listed in the skills array.
PHP/Laravel (or comparable MVC framework like Ruby on Rails or Django) is listed under 'Nice to Have'; Laravel is explicitly called 'a plus'.
React/TypeScript, Stripe, Kafka, AWS, and Kubernetes all appear exclusively under the 'Nice to Have' section.
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