Staff Software Engineer, GoFundMe
AI Products
$181-271k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
Open for applications
Social fundraising platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$181-271k
+ 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
- Have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading projects from scratch
- Have built and shipped zero-to-one products, whether as a startup founder or an early engineer in an incubation team
- Are fluent in Node.js, TypeScript, and comfortable building across backend services and APIs
- Have experience integrating LLMs or AI tools into customer-facing products (OpenAI, Claude, etc.)
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with tight feedback loops and evolving goals
- Are excited to build alongside customers and willing to travel regularly to visit key users and partners
- Communicate clearly and collaborate well with cross-functional teams
- Care about reliability, performance, and building software that solves real human problems
What the job involves
- We’re assembling a founding AI-first engineering team to build a brand-new AI-powered SaaS product from the ground up
- As a Staff Software / AI Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the technical foundation and building core features that solve real problems for nonprofits, organizations, and communities
- This is a zero-to-one opportunity with high visibility and direct impact
- You’ll work iteratively in weekly goal cycles, ship fast, and build alongside customers — including frequent travel to customer sites to understand their workflows and get immediate feedback
- Design and build reliable, scalable backend systems and APIs using Node.js and set up end-to-end CI/CD pipelines from scratch for seamless deployment and iteration
- Develop and integrate LLM-powered product features using frameworks like LangChain or direct LLM API calls
- Own architecture decisions, end-to-end feature delivery, and developer experience within the founding engineering team
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and legal/compliance stakeholders to ship high-quality features quickly
- Partner directly with early customers — including onsite visits — to validate ideas and co-build workflows that matter
- Operate in weekly execution cycles: set goals, build quickly, learn from usage, and iterate with urgency
- Contribute to team culture, engineering standards, and long-term technical vision
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.
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 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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