Staff Software Engineer, GoFundMe
Payments
$185-250k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
Open for applications
Social fundraising platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$185-250k
+ 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
- You are a seasoned engineer with deep expertise in payment systems with a track record of building and shipping impactful features. 8+ years of relevant experience in some or many of the following areas: Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding
- You have experience architecting services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to enable future scaling. You anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future change
- You are skilled at leading projects from conception to completion, ensuring timely delivery by balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and ensuring teams stay aligned with project goals
- You have strong experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic
Desirable
- Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes
What the job involves
- At GoFundMe, we are expanding our Payments engineering team with a mission to revolutionize how payments work at scale
- We are seeking a highly motivated software engineer to help us build and scale a next-generation payments infrastructure capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions, empowering millions of people to create meaningful change in the world
- In this role, you’ll design and implement cutting-edge solutions that ensure secure, efficient, and seamless payments on a global scale
- Join us if you're excited to grow both personally and professionally while making a direct impact on GoFundMe’s products, users, and the causes that matter most
- You'll refine and execute our multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases, and bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house
- You'll design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payment solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration
- You’ll collaborate with engineers, product management, designers, and external partners to design and implement the next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe, creating impact in service of our customers, mission, and business
- You’ll mentor junior developers through chat and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within your 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.
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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 values
- Consider everything
- Do the right thing
- Spread empathy
- Delight the customer
- Give back
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
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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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