Description review

GiveDirectly | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE in select countries (listed here

GiveDirectly · REMOTE in select countries (listed here · back to the listing

HR standards

48/100

poor

Title ↔ description

66/100

needs work

Reads as

Backend Engineer

100% confident

What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

)| $181K base + 15% bonus index

At GiveDirectly, we send cash directly to people living in extreme poverty, no strings attached. It's one of the most rigorously studied ways to address global poverty, with 20+ randomized controlled trials behind it, and we've delivered over $1B to more than 1.5 million people across 15 countries.
Your work will translate directly into money in the hands of people who need it. We're in a phase of tremendous growth (aiming to 5X delivery YoY) and you'll help build the systems for offline data collection in low network rural villages, fraud detection and prevention, KYC, and payments.
Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/givedirectly/jobs/4558349005

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 12 points (from 60 before penalties). Reviewed 2 Oct 2026.