Staff Software Engineer, GoFundMe

• 8+ years of professional experience developing REST APIs using any standard framework
• Experience working with backend programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, php)
• Professional experience with relational databases design
• Experience using Git in a workplace environment
• Experience working in an agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and the ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Experience with application performance monitoring and log analytics tools. We use New Relic and Sumo Logic

Desirable

• You’ll collaborate with a team of engineers and product management to design, develop and test features and improvements to GoFundMe
• You’ll work across the backend building services
• You will be an active contributor to architecture design of back end systems
• You'll be responsible for the entire product development lifecycle which including architectural design, development, deployment, documentation and maintenance of new and existing features
• You’ll participate in code reviews to maintain internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices
• You’ll contribute to the growth of the platform team by looking for opportunities to improve efficiency, processes and productivity
• You’ll ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members
• You’ll participate in on-call rotations to assist in troubleshooting urgent engineering issues
• You’ll recognize technical debt, propose and implement solutions
• You’ll provide mentorship to junior developers through chat and pair programming
• You’ll advocate for improvements to the codebase, and provide leadership to others within your team