Senior Software Engineer, GoFundMe
Checkout Experience, Frontend
$156-234k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
Open for applications
Social fundraising platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$156-234k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- 5+ years of professional experience developing, testing, and shipping complex, customer-facing web applications
- Direct professional experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Proven ability to translate high-fidelity mockups and designs into beautiful, pixel-perfect, responsive, and accessible web applications using tools such as UI design systems and modern CSS techniques/frameworks
- Solid experience with frontend testing methodologies and tools (e.g., Jest, Playwright) and code quality linters/formatters (e.g., ESLint)
- Strong understanding and practical experience with client-side performance analysis and optimization techniques
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (branching, code reviews, pull requests) in a team environment
- Experience working effectively in an agile, intensely iterative software development process
- Familiarity with application performance monitoring (APM) and log analytics tools to diagnose and address issues
Desirable
- Experience with backend development, particularly using Java, NodeJS or Kotlin
- Experience integrating frontend applications with GraphQL APIs
- Hands-on experience implementing and utilizing observability tools (monitoring, logging, alerting)
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, specifically using GitHub Actions and merge queues
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes / K8s), and cloud platforms (AWS)
What the job involves
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Backend Engineers to translate ideas and requirements into high-quality, user-centric features and improvements on the GoFundMe platform
- Lead the development of features primarily on the frontend, with opportunities to contribute across the full stack as needed
- Uphold and elevate our engineering standards by actively participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback, and mentoring other engineers on best practices for style, maintainability, and performance
- Independently drive the development and shipment of brand-new features and complex improvements, demonstrating strong ownership from conception through to deployment with minimal guidance
- Contribute to platform stability and reliability by participating in on-call rotations and effectively troubleshooting urgent engineering issues
- Proactively identify areas of technical debt and architectural weaknesses; design, propose, and implement effective solutions to enhance codebase health and scalability
- Champion continuous improvement within the team by advocating for enhancements to our codebase, tools, and processes; provide technical leadership and guidance to fellow team members
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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