Staff Software Engineer, GoFundMe
Pro Donate
3 days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
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Social fundraising platform
1001+ employees
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3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people fundraise for the personal, business, and charitable causes that matter most to them.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years building, testing, and shipping complex, customer-facing web applications, including 2+ years at Staff or Lead scope (or equivalent technical leadership)
- Deep, hands-on expertise with React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Proven ownership of frontend architecture that scales across teams and codebases, and a track record of setting engineering standards others adopt
- Advanced frontend testing experience, with a proven ability to drive meaningful coverage in business-critical flows
- Strong command of client-side performance and frontend observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, and log analytics) to diagnose, prevent, and optimize issues in production
- Ability to turn high-fidelity designs into pixel-perfect, responsive, and accessible interfaces using design systems and modern CSS
- Secure-by-default practices in payment-adjacent flows that handle sensitive user data
- Fluency with Git, CI/CD, and agile, iterative development
Desirable
- Experience with payments or checkout flows, and operating applications through seasonal or event-driven peak load
- Demonstrated use of AI development tooling (agentic workflows, AI-assisted review or test generation) in production
- Experience defining observability standards or shared monitoring frameworks for a frontend organization
- Backend familiarity and integrating frontend apps with modern API layers (GraphQL or REST)
- Infrastructure and delivery tooling: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, orchestration, and cloud platforms
What the job involves
- Join us! The GoFundMe Pro team is looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to join the Donate team as a senior technical leader
- The Donate team builds the hosted and embedded checkout experiences for GoFundMe Pro, our fundraising platform for nonprofits and social-good organizations
- You will lead several projects at once, help shape the frontend technical roadmap, and set the engineering standards the team builds to, treating code quality, test coverage, and observability as first-class parts of the product rather than afterthoughts
- It is a role for someone who is energized by clean architecture, strong testing, and sharp observability, and who wants that craft to have a direct impact on causes that matter
- Lead several concurrent projects and help shape the frontend technical roadmap for the team's checkout experiences, working with a high degree of autonomy
- Own frontend architecture: design component systems, state management, and module boundaries that stay scalable, testable, and maintainable, and drive down the technical debt and performance bottlenecks that slow the team
- Set and uphold the team's engineering standards for code quality, patterns, and code review, and continually raise the bar
- Own and evolve the team's testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, driving high-value coverage in payment-critical flows
- Build and mature frontend observability (monitoring, alerting, and log analytics), and own incidents end-to-end through resolution and postmortems, so problems are caught and fixed before they reach donors
- Champion AI-assisted development practices, such as agentic workflows and AI-assisted review and test generation, to raise both velocity and quality
- Mentor and grow the engineers around you, and partner with product, design, and backend stakeholders to shape priorities and represent frontend engineering across teams
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.
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.
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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 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.
Tim Cadogan
(CEO)CEO since 2020. Previously CEO at OpenX, where they now serve as Chair of the Board. Has also served as Board Director at a number of businesses - they still hold this position at LiveRamp.
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