Staff Software Engineer, GoFundMe
$219.6-268.4k
+ Equity
Social fundraising platform
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Social fundraising platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$219.6-268.4k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help people fundraise for the personal, business, and charitable causes that matter most to them.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience operating as a staff engineer or equivalent, with measurable impact across multiple teams or systems
- Excellent understanding of distributed systems, including debugging distributed systems with high data loads
- Demonstrated successful leadership of complex technical projects with cross-team collaboration and clear business impact
- History of improving back-end and front-end application performance metrics
- Track record of identifying and implementing best practices in software systems
- Strong experience with React, ES6, TypeScript, Node.js, and front-end frameworks
- Expertise in schema design and data modeling in SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience designing and evolving APIs (REST, GraphQL), including authentication and security best practices
- Significant experience working with AI agents, agent orchestrators, and MCP servers
Desirable
- High impact: Your work directly helps nonprofits raise more money and expand their reach, contributing to GoFundMe’s mission and business metrics
- Broad scope: Influence systems and strategy across Onboarding and the broader GoFundMe Pro platform
- Technical depth: Work across AI, data, and distributed systems at scale
- Ownership: Lead ambiguous, high impact initiatives with visibility across the organization
What the job involves
- Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Staff Software Engineer to help GoFundMe Pro team
- One of GoFundMe’s fastest growing business segments is GoFundMe Pro, a platform that enables Non Profit Organizations (NPOs) to fundraise, host events, connect with donors, and leverage deep data insights to maximize their impact
- The GoFundMe Pro Onboarding team is hiring a full stack staff software engineer to accelerate time to value for new NPO users coming to our platform. You’ll guide a team of engineers to shape how NPOs get started. You’ll give NPO administrators deep and actionable data insights, AI driven tools, and help them successfully launch fundraising campaigns tailored to their needs
- Own and evolve the technical strategy for the Onboarding team, and influence the technical direction of GoFundMe Pro
- Partner with product, design and data to solve the team’s hardest problems with clear business outcomes
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives, driving alignment on architecture, APIs, and platform capabilities
- Act as a technical multiplier: Mentor senior engineers, raise engineering standards, and guide complex technical decisions
- Design and build scalable full-stack systems across web applications, back end services, and data pipelines
- Drive improvements in system performance, reliability, observability, and developer velocity, and AI adoption
- Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions to promote collaboration and define best practices for fullstack development
- Identify and drive simplification of systems to accelerate delivery across teams
- Create an environment that encourages innovation and collaboration
Our take
One of the most well-known fundraising platforms in the world, GoFundMe makes raising money online exceptionally easy. The platform initially focused on charity and good causes, but its scope has now expanded to include start-up business funding. What makes the platform attractive is its ability to democratise fundraising through the medium of the online.
GoFundMe's rapid rise in popularity has been helped by its social media integrations and the speed at which individuals can start funds. With strategic foresight, the company launched its GoFundMe Guarantee in 2016, a pledge to protect donors from fraud or platform misuse - knowing that its continued growth could only be hampered by security issues or donor deception.
This guarantee is what has enabled the company to remain the largest crowdfunding platform in the world. Notably, it stands amongst the likes of Airbnb, Facebook, and Netflix in being backed by tech investors TCV.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Wide range of health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision (GoFundMe covers 100% of employee premiums, and 80% of spouse and dependents)
- $600 annual fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Weekly massages
- Standing desks
- Fully-stocked kitchens & daily lunches
- Team off-sites & monthly social events
- Many of our offices are dog friendly
- 10 paid holidays, 17 days of accrued vacation per year, unlimited sick time & three volunteer days
- Enhanced parental leaves
- $50/month for employees commuting to and from work (public transit and/or parking)
- Caltrain GoPasses for our Bay Area commuters
- "Gives Back" program, where employees nominate fundraisers weekly for donations from GoFundMe
- Quarterly volunteer events in each office to give back to our local communities
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- Access to learning tools and resources, including a subscription to Udemy, guest speakers, and internal brown bag sessions
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Margaret Richardson
(Chief Marketing & Corporate Affairs Officer)Formerly worked at Airbnb as Vice President of Trust and Director of Global Policy. They worked in Trust & Safety at Apple prior to becoming a Member of Pipeline Angels.
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