About the role
- As a Laureate Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for Blackbaud’s core products, helping shape the future of our products.. You’ll operate as a senior technical authority, influencing architecture, quality, and long-term technical direction across teams while partnering closely with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leaders.
- This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving complex problems at scale, modernizing legacy systems, and mentoring senior engineers to deliver highly reliable, secure, and performant SaaS solutions—while intentionally leveraging AI-assisted development practices across the full software lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing:
- Help drive the long-term architectural strategy for Blackbaud’s products, balancing scalability, performance, security, and regulatory requirements
- Design and evolve foundational components and services that support event management and fund-raising.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, guiding design decisions and promoting consistent,



high-quality engineering practices
- Partner with Product Management to translate complex requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions
- Lead modernization efforts, including legacy system refactoring, cloud-native architecture adoption, and technical debt reduction
- AI-assisted engineering leadership
- Champion the responsible and effective use of AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, similar tools) across day-to-day development
- Establish expectations for using AI in code reviews, including:
- Identifying defects, edge cases, and performance issues
- Improving readability, consistency, and adherence to architectural standards
- Assisting with risk identification in production and compliance-sensitive code paths
- Promote the use of AI to accelerate and strengthen testing, including:
- Generating and refining unit, integration, and regression tests
- Identifying gaps in test coverage, especially

📌 Laureate, Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Blackbaud
📍 Hyderabad