Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Want to help us, help others? We’re hiring! 

GoFundMe is a global community of over 150 million people who come together every day with the common purpose of helping one another. Our mission is to help people help each other through our best in class technology. In 2022, GoFundMe joined together with Classy, a leading nonprofit fundraising software company that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Together, we have empowered people and organizations to raise more than $30 billion since 2010. Our vision is to become the most helpful place in the world - join us!

GoFundMe is looking to build out our Payments engineering team. We are searching for a dedicated software engineer who’s interested in changing the lives of millions of people for the better, personal and professional growth, and having a real impact on our products and users!

This is a hybrid position; candidates considered for this role will be located in San Francisco.

The Job…

• You’ll collaborate with a team of engineers, product management and external partners to identify and implement improvements and new features for the GoFundMe Payments Platform 
• You'll be an active contributor to 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 participate in code reviews to maintain internal standards for style, maintainability, and excellence.
• You’ll contribute to the growth of the Payments organization 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 solving 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.

You…

• 8+ years of professional experience working with backend programming languages, with at least 3+ years in payments or fintech.
• Professional experience with relational database design.
• Professional experience developing REST APIs using any standard framework. 
• Strong professional experience with performance and optimization problems and the ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Experience with event driven architecture at scale
• Strong understanding of design patterns, and architectural best practices covering software architecture, development, testing, and delivery.
• Strong professional experience with analyzing and diagnosing performance problems and the ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Experience using Git in a workplace environment.
• Experience working in an agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and log analytics tools. We use New Relic and Sumo Logic.

Preferred...

• Experience with Kubernetes, Graphql, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with async processing. We use SQS/SNS, Kafka

Why you’ll love it here...

• Market competitive pay.
• Rich healthcare benefits including employer paid premiums for medical/dental/vision (100% for employee-only plans and 85% for employee + dependent plans) and employer HSA contributions. 
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Hybrid workplace with fully remote flexibility for many roles.
• Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, family planning, and commuting expenses.
• A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees.   
• Generous paid parental leave and family planning stipend.
• Company provided life and disability coverages.
• Supportive time off policies including vacation, sick/mental health days, volunteer days, company holidays, and a floating holiday.
• Learning & development and recognition programs.
• “Gives Back” Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.
• Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are vital to our priorities and we continue to evolve our strategy to ensure DEI is embedded in all processes and programs at GoFundMe. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team is always finding