Current openings at Velora, home of Raisely, Keela and Aplos

About the role: Location: Canada Provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta only With Aplos, nonprofit groups of every shape, size, and mission can seamlessly run their finances and operations, manage their business and bottom line, and proactively engage their communities and donors when it matters most. We’re a remote team, spread across North America (with peers all over the world). Aplos is the largest nonprofit & church management software on the market. We’ve served over 40,000 organizations since our inception in 2009. Our all-inclusive platform provides a dynamic CRM, fundraising & giving tools, online donations & payment processing, built-in fund accounting system, integrated payroll, email marketing, website builder, and much more. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team. 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 buildscalable distributed solutions, prioritizing performance, reliability and observability to ensure the customer’s user experience above all. Aplos is evolving our engineering practice from AI-assisted to AI-native development. In this role, AI is treated as a first-class capability within the software delivery lifecycle, supporting design, implementation, testing, debugging, and ongoing maintenance. We are seeking anengineer who already incorporates AI into their workflow — or is actively developing that capability — to deliver higher-quality software with greater velocity. What will you be doing (your role)? Collaborate on designing and building high-quality architecture for core platform systems. Tackle ambiguous problems and define clear, robust solutions.  Create technical designs and present them for peer and stakeholder feedback. Communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Prioritize work, set and meet realistic commitments, and be accountable for successful delivery. Adapt to and work across diverse architectures and technologies. Debug and contribute to unfamiliar or legacy code. Maintain and gradually transition legacy monolith systems to modern microservices architectures.  Build and maintain scalable, reliable microservices and APIs. Use AI-native workflows to accelerate delivery while improving quality, applying strong engineering judgment and verification.  Incorporate AI into iterative development (plan → build → test → observe → refine), including AI-assisted design exploration, implementation scaffolding, test generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation. Use AI tools effectively during incident response, performance investigations, and root-cause analysis. Monitor, analyze, and optimize system performance and reliability.  What we’re looking for (requirements): Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior-level role. Expertise in high-level programming languages; Node.js required and Java a strong plus. Deep understanding of modern architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven design, reactive systems, and domain-driven design. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure beneficial) and solid understanding of cloud-native design principles. Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools as a consistent part of day-to-day engineering work.  Strong interest in the emerging practice of AI-native software development, where AI is embedded directly into engineering workflows and not just an assistant. Ability to verify and validate AI output (tests, instrumentation, careful review, reproduction steps) and to recognize when AI requires more guardrails or introduces risk. Experience working in Agile environments, with the ability to decompose work and deliver incrementally on a schedule. Exceptional communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to align technical and business stakeholders. Why work with us? If you need more convincing, here’s the rest of it: 💵 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. 🏝️ Paid Time Off 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. Plus, 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- We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on Retirement.  

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 (your role)? Operates at a high technical level, leading initiatives and complex projects. Influences technical direction and architectural decisions. Owns projects that have a high impact on the company or product. Partners with product management to align engineering work with business goals. Mentors multiple engineers, focusing on technical excellence and team culture. Contributes to on-call / pager duty, taking responsibility, accountability and ownership during a high impact incident. Proactively contributes to team discussions, code reviews and strategic decisions. Writes 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 their solutions and ideas through documentation, diagrams, and RFCs. Further detail: 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? If you need more convincing, here’s the rest of it: 💵 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. Plus, 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. If you have any questions or require accommodations in the interview process, please reach out to recruitment@joinvelora.com. Aplos, Keela and Raisely’s Commitment to Equal-Employment, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity We know with diversity comes strength. Aplos, Raisely and Keela provides 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.