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!
Join us! GoFundMe is searching for a passionate and driven Staff Engineer with a strong background in building scalable, high-performance systems. In this high-impact role, you will design and develop innovative infrastructure to support large-scale, mission-driven products that empower millions of people globally. Your work will directly contribute to building seamless, user-friendly experiences, enabling individuals to contribute to causes and make meaningful change in the world.
As a key technical leader, you'll have the opportunity to shape the architecture and direction of our systems, driving impact for both the company and the users we serve. Join us if you're excited to grow both personally and professionally while making a direct impact on GoFundMe's products, users, and the causes that matter most.
Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Job… You'll play a critical role in driving the strategy for new and innovative products within our Incubation team, aligning with the company's bold vision and growth objectives. You'll take ownership of the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch and beyond, building solutions that have the potential to reshape the way people interact with financial tools and services. Collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and designers, you'll ensure that your solutions are built with precision, scale, and impact. 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. You… You are a seasoned engineer with a track record of building and shipping impactful features. You have 8+ years of relevant experience across various technical domains such as scalable backend systems, complex infrastructure, APIs, or distributed systems. You can navigate through ambiguity and assist the product team with scoping and discovery, helping to shape solutions and define clear paths forward. You 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. You 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. You have strong experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic. Experience in areas such as financial transaction systems, digital wallets, ledgering, reconciliation, compliance (e.g., KYC), and payment infrastructure is a plus. Preferred... Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin or Java, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes. Why you'll love it here... Market competitive pay. Rich healthcare benefits and supportive time off policies. Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, and family planning. A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees. 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. 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! GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to providing diversity, equity, and inclusion training to all employees, and 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.
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