GoFundMe.org is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join us! As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Integrity team at GoFundMe, you will play a pivotal role in empowering fundraiser organizers to create timely, authentic, and compliant campaigns. Your expertise will help ensure that donors feel confident they are supporting real people and genuine causes.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience developing REST APIs using a backend framework like Spring, or Django on external customer-facing applications
• Professional experience with relational database design
• Professional experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js
• Experience using Git in a workplace environment
• Experience working 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 application performance monitoring and log analytics tools. We use New Relic and Sumo Logic

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to develop and enhance features for GoFundMe
• Work on a combination of backend and frontend, while leveraging third-party vendors to build a robust platform and user experiences
• Participate in code reviews to ensure adherence to internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices
• Independently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance
• Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve urgent engineering issues
• Identify technical debt and proactively propose and implement solutions
• Advocate for codebase improvements and provide leadership and guidance within the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kotlin, Java, and GraphQL
• Experience with React and Next.js
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with CI/CD - specifically github actions and merge queues

Benefits

• 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