Senior Design Engineer, GoFundMe
$145-218k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
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Social fundraising platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$145-218k
+ 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
- 6+ years of experience as a front-end engineer with practice building and managing a Design System
- Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React (or a similar JS framework)
- Able to take initiative, prioritize, manage workloads and meet project deadlines
- An excellent communicator and collaborator who can clearly articulate ideas and vision
- Self-driven and comfortable working in highly collaborative, cross functional teams
- Experience publishing shared libraries to NPM or similar
- Experience building and testing accessible (WCAG AA) user interfaces
- Experience working with Responsive Design and mobile-first principles
- Experience writing and maintaining unit tests
- Experience working with Git-based version control
- A proven track record of navigating and interpreting support charts from providers like MDN and CanIUse
- Experience working with tools like Figma, Storybook, and Typescript
What the job involves
- Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for a Senior Design Engineer to help shape and improve our Design System
- In this role, you’ll collaborate directly with designers and engineers to build and enhance reusable components, set best practices, and ensure our platform is accessible and responsive for millions of users
- You’ll have the chance to lead front-end development, mentor teammates, and drive innovation on a product that empowers people to help each other every day
- Work directly with product designers and engineers to implement deliverable features, additions, and improvements to all areas of the product
- Own front-end development from start to finish
- Build new, reusable components and improve the existing components within our Design System
- Create guidance for the entire team by writing and maintaining documentation
- Participate in code reviews regularly to share your work and grow your understanding of the code base
- Provide mentorship to other developers through chat, pair programming, and regular meetings with the entire front-end team
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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