About Us

Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.

Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits 

We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do. 

The ideal candidate for Virtuous embodies our values by:

• Asking questions with a spirit of curiosity

• Giving feedback freely with candor & grace, welcoming it in return

• Displaying a passion for philanthropy and technology 

• Serving with joy. Everyone is willing to make the coffee!

• Celebrating the wins & milestones of others 

• Assuming good intent & demonstrating trust in others 

• Pursuing relationships with people different from themselves & creates space to be human

Find our core values & more here.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Engineering to join our engineering leadership team. Reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, this role will partner closely with the VP to oversee our 25-person engineering organization, spread across four squads. This is primarily a people management and team leadership role; focused on developing mid and senior-level engineers while staying close enough to the work to coach effectively, facilitate technical discussions, and drive engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the VP of Engineering to provide day-to-day leadership and oversight of our engineering organization.

• Manage and mentor ~10 mid and senior-level engineers, helping them grow their technical skills, leadership capacity, and career development.

• Support team leads in improving delivery, collaboration, and execution across four engineering squads.

• Help mature engineering practices, with an emphasis on:

  • Improving CI/CD pipelines and automation

  • Driving quality initiatives that reduce bug escape velocity

  • Strengthening cross-squad collaboration

  • Partnering with DevOps, QA, and Release functions to improve reliability and efficiency

• Facilitate technical discussions, including occasional code reviews and architectural conversations, to ensure high-quality and scalable solutions.

• Participate in attracting, hiring, retaining, and managing performance of your team.

• Be growth-minded and coach your team and demonstrate a willingness to lean into tough, but necessary conversations for performance improvement.

• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within engineering.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and other cross-functional partners to align on priorities and deliver customer value consistently.

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering squads are delivering with increased predictability and velocity.

• Acts as a right-hand to the VP of Engineering; shaping strategy and helping translate this into execution with your team.

• Quality initiatives lead to measurable reductions in escaped bugs and improved customer experience.

• Engineers feel supported, challenged, and are advancing in their careers.

• CI/CD processes are streamlined, reducing manual overhead and accelerating time-to-deploy.

• Collaboration between engineering squads and partner teams is smooth, transparent, and productive.

You Must Have

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including at least 3+ years in a management or leadership role.

• Strong people leadership skills with proven experience mentoring and developing engineers.

• Solid technical foundation in modern web application development. Our stack includes C#, .NET, Azure, React, TypeScript, and Postgres.

• Comfortable facilitating technical discussions and guiding engineers through design reviews and code quality improvements.

• Demonstrated experience maturing engineering practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, QA, or release management.

• Strong collaborator who thrives in a cross-functional environment, partnering well with Product, Design, and business leaders.

• Excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate goals, challenges, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Passion for building high-performing, distributed teams in a remote-first culture.

What We Offer

• Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data

• Employee recognition through Bonusly (birthdays, anniversaries, achievements, etc.)

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days

• We value our employee’s work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PTO

• Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays

• Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

• 12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well)

• We pride ourselves on Community and host exciting company outings and events.

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