Staff Software Engineer - Payments

September 17, 2024

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GoFundMe. org is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates independently from GoFundMe, Inc and the GoFundMe fundraising platform. It focuses on rapidly raising and distributing funds to assist people and communities in times of crisis, such as natural disasters and social injustices. Since its inception in 2017, GoFundMe. org has raised and distributed over $160 million across more than 150 funds, providing over 15,000 grants to meet urgent needs and support critical social change. The organization collaborates with a wide range of community and corporate partners to drive philanthropic priorities and social impact goals, leveraging GoFundMe, Inc’s technology and resources. GoFundMe. org also accepts various forms of donations, including checks, crypto, donor-advised funds, and wire transfers, to maximize its impact.

11 - 50 employees

Founded none

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Collaborate with a team of engineers, product management and external partners to identify and implement improvements and new features for the GoFundMe Payments Platform. • 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. • Participate in code reviews to maintain internal standards for style, maintainability, and excellence. • Contribute to the growth of the Payments organization by looking for opportunities to improve efficiency, processes and productivity. • Ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. • Participate in on-call rotations to assist in solving urgent engineering issues. • Recognize technical debt, propose and implement solutions. • Provide mentorship to junior developers through chat and pair programming. • Advocate for improvements to the codebase, and provide leadership to others within your team.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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. • Employee resource groups. • Your work has a real purpose and will help change lives on a global scale. • You’ll be a part of a fun, supportive team that works hard and celebrates accomplishments together. • We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose. • We are a certified Great Place to Work, are growing fast and have incredible opportunities ahead!