Senior Software Engineer (Communications)

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

GoFundMe is a global community of over 100 million people with the common purpose of helping one another. Our mission is to help people help each other by making it safe and easy for people to ask for help and support causes—for themselves, each other, and their communities. 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, GoFundMe and Classy have empowered people and organizations to raise more than $25 billion since 2010. Our vision is to become the most helpful place in the world.

Join us! GoFundMe is looking to build out our InfraComms engineering team to help establish a robust communication platform. We are searching for a talented 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!

The Job...

• You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and data science, to define, drive and deliver innovative solutions at GoFundMe.
• You’ll work across the backend building services that support the business & marketing team in providing a seamless experience to our users.
• You'll be responsible for the entire product development lifecycle which include design, development, deployment, documentation and maintenance of new and existing features.
• You’ll ensure the reliability, security, and maintainability of the systems and services owned by the team.
• You’ll contribute to the growth of the team by looking for opportunities to improve efficiency, processes, productivity and provide leadership to others.
• You’ll participate in on-call rotations to assist in troubleshooting urgent engineering issues.

You…

• 5+ years of professional experience building and shipping high performance API infrastructures, as well as consumer facing applications.
• Strong experience working with backend programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, PHP).
• Experience in schema design in relational or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with distributed software architecture and debugging
• Experience working with teams 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 test-driven development and containerization.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and log analytics tools. We use New Relic and Sumo Logic

Bonus Points...

• Experience building event-driven systems on services like SQS/SNS, Kafka, Redis
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience withTypescript, Next,js.
• Experience with CI/CD tools.
• Experience with Localization.
• Experience with email and email delivery.

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
• 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 new ways for our company to uphold and represent the experiences of all of the people in our organization.
• Employee resource groups
• Your work has a real purpose and will help change lives on a global scale.
• You’ll