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About the Role

GoFundMe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments organization on the Payouts team. This role will focus on building and scaling next-generation payments infrastructure, handling billions of dollars in transactions, and bringing core payments capabilities in-house. The ideal candidate is a seasoned technical leader experienced in solving complex problems in payments, setting architectural direction, and contributing hands-on.

Responsibilities

Refine and execute GoFundMe's multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases, and bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house.
Design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration.
Collaborate with engineers, product management, designers, and external partners to design and implement next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe.
Own critical technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, anticipating future use cases and designing to minimize the cost of future change.
Mentor other engineers through chat, code review, and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase.
Lead projects from conception to completion, balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and keeping teams aligned with project goals.

Requirements

Seasoned engineer with deep expertise in payment systems and a track record of building and shipping impactful features.
8+ years of relevant experience in areas such as Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding.
Experience architecting services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to enable future scaling.
Anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future change.
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.
Strong experience analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic.

Skills

Checkout/Payment methods
Payouts
Ledgering
Reconciliation
Interchange
KYC/Onboarding
Spring Boot
Kotlin
AWS
Kafka
Kubernetes
GraphQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

8+ years of relevant experience

Salary/Compensations

$195,000–$293,000

Benefits

Competitive pay
Comprehensive healthcare benefits
Equity
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
401(k) savings program
Financial assistance for hybrid work
Family planning assistance
Generous parental leave
Flexible time-off policies
Mental health and wellness resources
Learning, development, and recognition programs

About the Company

GoFundMe is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other.
By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place, GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causes—for themselves and each other.
Together, our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.
We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose.
We’re proud to partner with GoFundMe.org, an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change.

Equal Opportunity

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, or military or veteran status.