The Intersection of Calling & Career

World Vision is now hiring for Sr. Software Development Engineer.

Job type: Permanent

Location: Remote or hybrid if within 60 miles of USHQ in Federal Way, WA

Experience level: Senior

Role: Full-Stack Web Developer

Industry: Enterprise, non-profit charity

Salary: $107,412.98 – $178,259.84 (typically $110,000 – $150,000). DOE.

Company size: 1,000+

We are looking for talented and motivated engineers who have a passion for quality software and will take our websites and web apps to the next level. As a Senior Software Development Engineer on our Apps team, you will develop code across the whole stack. The right candidate is always willing to collaborate and do what it takes to deliver the highest quality enterprise applications. As a developer for World Vision, you are building the tools that will lead to a better life for thousands of children in the most vulnerable places around the world. At World Vision we are going to the ends of the earth, often where no one else goes, to pull up the roots of poverty and plant the seeds of change. Help us carry out our Christian organization’s mission, vision, and strategies by building customer-facing websites, web apps, and other digital properties.

What You Will Do

• Write high-quality software in technologies like JavaScript with ReactJS, HTML5, CSS, WS, WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Node.js, Azure, Twilio, Auth0, and others.
• Write high-quality, WordPress themes, plugins, and APIs built to standards.
• Take ownership of solutions and project deliverables.
• Advocate and teach less senior developers best practices such as Loose Coupling, KISS, DRY, BDUF, YAGNI, Separation of Concerns, Single Responsibility etc.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of our core, online experiences.
• Contribute to the DevOps process and tool building.
• Collaborate with other engineers to deep-dive solutions before any code is written.
• Collaborate with support team, QA team, and digital solutions team.
• Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life. Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (e.g. Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and leadership of devotions). Incorporate World Vision Core Values into decisions within scope of role. 

Who You’ll Work With

• Other full-stack and front-end developers on the Apps team.
• QA testers.
• DevOps and Oncall for all support, maintenance, and on-call duties.
• Technical Program Managers who will help identify and break down work.
• Product Managers and UX designers envisioning excellent user experiences.
• API developers on our backend enterprise Web Services team.
• Architects of various aspects of our system.

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, relevant work experience (four years).
• In addition to education or education equivalent, requires 5-8 years of work experience in web software development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Expertise working with a team of developers in the same codebase.
• Expertise in JavaScript, ReactJS, HTML, and CSS.
• Expertise in PHP and WordPress.
• Experience with eCommerce.
• Familiar with agile/scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Experience launching consumer-facing software solutions.

Salary Range & Benefits 

Your compensation and benefits are important to you so they’re important to us. The salary range for this role is $107,412.98 – $178,259.84. Applies to locations with a market similar to our U.S. HQ in the Greater Seattle area. A different range may apply based on your work location. The typical hiring range is $110,000 – $150,000. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity. World Vision employees see our Salary Administration Guidelines and My Life My Benefits pages on our organization intranet known as The Vine. Please indicate the range you’re targeting when asked during the application process. In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round out our total compensation package. Click here to learn more (this position is a grade 229). Additionally, merit, auto allowance, and relocation are available to eligible employees based on existing plans. Help improve this content.