GoFundMe is searching for a Staff Software Engineer to design and develop innovative infrastructure from the ground up to support large-scale, mission-driven fintech products that empower millions of people globally. The goal is to build seamless, user-friendly experiences that enable individuals to contribute to causes and make meaningful change in the world.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience across various technical domains such as scalable backend systems, complex infrastructure, APIs, or distributed systems.
- 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.
- Have strong experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools.
- Experience in areas such as financial transaction systems, digital wallets, ledgering, reconciliation, compliance (e.g., KYC), and payment infrastructure is a plus.
- Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin or Java, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- You’ll collaborate with a team of engineers, product management, designers and external partners to identify and implement improvements and new features for the GoFundMe fintech products.
- You’ll take ownership of the entire product development life cycle which includes architectural design, development, deployment, documentation and maintenance of new and existing backend services and tools.
- You’ll own the technical roadmap for these new products, prioritizing features based on cutting-edge technology, user needs, and technical feasibility to deliver high-value solutions.
- Conduct deep technical exploration to stay ahead of industry trends, and leverage that knowledge to design systems that stand up to market demands, while pushing the boundaries of innovation.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for your products, using data-driven insights to iterate, optimize, and enhance the overall user experience and technical performance.
- Lead the engineering efforts for product launches and own the post-launch technical strategy to ensure products scale and perform successfully in the market.
- Contribute significantly to system reliability and operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and leading the troubleshooting and resolution of incidents.
Other
- You’ll provide mentorship to junior developers, advocate for improvements to the codebase, and provide leadership to others within your team.
- Can navigate through ambiguity and assist the product team with scoping and discovery, helping to shape solutions and define clear paths forward.
- Are skilled at leading projects from conception to completion, ensuring timely delivery by balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, while communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and keeping teams aligned with project goals.
- This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with 2–3 days per week of in-office collaboration.
- Candidates considered for this position will be located in: San Francisco, CA
