Director of Engineering, GoFundMe
Payments
$260-350k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
Open for applications
Social fundraising platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$260-350k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
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
- Experience: 10+ years as an Engineering Leader, overseeing mid-sized organizations, and driving successful outcomes
- Payments Expertise: 5+ years of experience leading teams in one or more key payment areas: checkout/payment methods, payouts, ledgering, reconciliation, interchange, or KYC/onboarding. Proven ability to ship impactful features within complex payment ecosystems
- Technical Skills: Deep expertise in system architecture, with a track record of designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions in high-transaction environments
- Leadership: Strong experience growing teams, leading cross-functional projects, and ensuring timely delivery. Skilled at aligning technical priorities with business goals and communicating effectively across all levels of the organization
- Adaptability: Equally comfortable diving into the technical details of payment systems and presenting to executive leadership
- Mission-Driven: Passionate about creating solutions that empower individuals and communities around the world
Desirable
- Experience with global payments systems and scaling payment infrastructures in high-growth organizations
- Familiarity with emerging payment technologies and trends
- Strong connections with payment providers and industry networks
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll spearhead the strategy, design, and execution of GoFundMe’s global payments infrastructure
- You will drive innovation, ensure seamless and secure payment experiences, and empower your team to deliver solutions that scale with our mission to help people help themselves
- Team Leadership: Build, inspire, and lead a high-performing engineering team across the U.S. and Buenos Aires, fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and innovation
- Payments Strategy: Shape and execute a multi-year roadmap to grow our platform’s giving potential through innovative payment solutions and increased internal capabilities
- Technical Vision: Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to architect and implement scalable, next-generation payments infrastructure. Ensure performance, reliability, and security in a high-transaction environment
- Collaboration: Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to deliver secure and efficient payment capabilities, including checkout, payout, ledgering, reconciliation, and onboarding (KYC)
- Execution: Drive cross-functional projects from concept to completion, balancing technical trade-offs with business needs and maintaining alignment with organizational goals
Our take
One of the most well-known fundraising platforms in the world, GoFundMe makes raising money online exceptionally easy. The platform started initially with a focus 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 democratize fundraising through the medium of 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.
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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 values
- Consider everything
- Do the right thing
- Spread empathy
- Delight the customer
- Give back
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Margaret Richardson
(Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, not founder)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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