# Build the agentic operating system for nonprofit organizations

Most of the world's charities still run 5-6 different fundraising tools together with spreadsheets and CRMs from the 90s. We're changing that with samfora.org, our nonprofit donation platform which has moved 7M+ SEK to 70+ Swedish NGOs in 7 months.

We also develop samfora.io, a CRM/data-platform for nonprofit fundraisers. We're live with 6 customers and store 50 MSEK in past donations on our servers. We're hiring our next founding developer to help us go to 1B. Every line of code you write helps a fundraiser save lives.

## TL;DR

- Sweden's nonprofit sector raised ~10 billion SEK in private donations last year and lost a quarter of every fundraiser's week to tedious admin tasks. Every shipped feature equals hours reclaimed for cancer research, refugee work, and climate action
- 70+ NGOs already use our free fundraising software: samfora.org, we process on avg. 33k SEK / day and 7 MSEK has been donated to date.
- samfora.io (data-platform) is live with 6 NGOs. From day one, your code processes real donations for true causes
- Fintech and AI: payment reconciliation, fuzzy donor matching across sources, GDPR-native workflows, and the delightful UI that makes all of it usable for humans, plus a beautiful semantic layer to make it MCP/API accessible
- Stockholm, in person at Norrsken House. Founder-level equity (0.5-3%) plus competitive base. Infinite AI credits. State your APIs/CLIs/MCPs and we'll provide the tokens
- Backed by 12 angels, including Max Heger (GodEl/GodFond), Mikael Ahlström (Procuritas), Sam Jahanfar (Rule), Per Håkan Börjesson (Spiltan Invest), The Case for Her (Cristina Ljungberg and Wendy Anderson), and operators from Voyado, Salesforce, and more

## Mission: build the data layer that turns every donation into a relationship

You'll own the problems charities face, end-to-end.

- **Donor Data Platform**: the UX NGO fundraisers live in every day. Segmentation, donor cards, campaigns, automations
- **Payment and reconciliation engine**: banks, Stripe, Swish, and CSV imports, so that 100% of every donation reaches the cause and zero hours go to chasing missing transfers
- **Data pipelines that can't fail**: auditable systems for donation processing where mistakes cannot happen
- **AI-powered enrichment layer**: match fuzzy donor data across sources, enrichment APIs (Apollo/Hunter/Clearbit, etc.) for ground truth, so that fundraisers spend 100% of their time on building relationships
- **Backbone**: events, triggers, donor scoring, churn prediction, donor lifetime value, so that small NGOs get the same toolbox as the giants
- **Integrations at scale**: webhooks, OAuth, Open Banking, Gmail/Outlook, MCPs...

## Currently a team of 5 to around ~15 FTE, depending on how you count

- **Philip** (CEO and co-founder): product, sales, CS, design
- **Tetiana**: senior full-stack, 8 years. Queen of architecture, CI/CD, and reliability
- **Richard**: full-stack and AI/ML, 4 years. If you beat him in # PRs/month or token-spend, he'll buy you a Mac mini with a pre-configured Claude
- **Karl** (CTO and co-founder): fractional code reviews, architecture, deep technical calls
- Advisors and consultants within UX, front-end, marketing, product, Customer Success, and more

## Who you are

- You're 1-4 years into your career and hungry. You have the capability to grow into a senior engineer in 18 months instead of 5 years
- You're agentic by default. You have built, and are excited to demo and discuss, agentic workflows and tooling
- You ship multiple meaningful things per week. You know the balance, however: when donations are on the line, you don't make mistakes
- You're a vibe-coder who still reads every line of code. You move fast in CC/Codex, Conductor, etc., but you also know what's happening in the scripting-lang layer, and the layer below that...
- You're paranoid about data quality: you've seen what happens when bad matching pollutes migrations, and you have the instinct for audit trails, flags, versioning, rollbacks

### Bonus points

- Payments, fintech, or financial data
- Open-source contributions, hackathon wins, side-projects
- CRM, marketing automation
- Speaks Swedish, English, or Ukrainian
- AWS
- Event handling
- Believe that generosity is the greatest of all deities

## How we work

- **Mission first**: every shipped feature is measured in fundraiser hours reclaimed or increase in funds raised
- **Own the problem end-to-end**: everyone owns our partners' problems, everyone is accountable for outcomes
- **AI-native, no approvals**: infinite tokens. Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Warp, all four if you want. State your toolbox and we'll provide the tokens
- **Stack**: Next.js, Postgres, AWS, GitHub Actions

## Sub specie aeternitatis (under the aspect of eternity)

- **Impact**: help charity workers become more strategic and creative as fundraisers
- **Timing**: just closed our angel round with 12 angels
- **Learning**: gnarly problems with real architectural latitude at the intersection of fintech, AI, and data privacy
- **Stress and joy**: we put insane pressure on ourselves to deliver. We also know that the glimmering view from the top of the mountain will be worth it

## Compensation and location

- **Equity**: 0.5-3% founder-level options set by experience and trajectory
- **Base**: competitive developer salary. Specific numbers discussed with finalists
- **Vacation and wellness**: 30 days paid vacation, generous yearly wellness allowance (friskvårdsbidrag)
- **Location**: in person, Norrsken House, Stockholm

## Process

1. Intro call (30 min)
2. Tech interview / pair (90 min, Richard / Tetiana)
3. Founder chat (Philip / Karl)
4. One day working together
5. Sign

## Timing

- **Rolling review**: we interview as applications come in
- **Last day to apply**: 29 May 2026
- **Start date**: Jul-Oct 2026

## Apply below and include

- Why this excites you (paragraph, not cover letter)
- The shipped product you're most proud of
- GH / portfolio

Want a digital coffee or a phone call before you apply? Do reach out! And never forget: the dice of fortune, and whether you have the ability to ignore them or throw them, make all the difference.

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**Fora** , /ˈfɔːrə/
Plural of forum. Public, open, multi-functional spaces located in the heart of the city and the center for civic life.

**Amfora** , /ˈæmfərə/
Vessel to store and transport resources like wine, olive oil, honey, and grains.