Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Company: GoFundMe
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 20, 2024

Job Description:

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 , 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!
At GoFundMe, we are expanding our Payments engineering team with a mission to revolutionize how payments work at scale. We are seeking a highly motivated software engineer to help us build and scale a next-generation payments infrastructure capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions, empowering millions of people to create meaningful change in the world.
In this role, you'll design and implement cutting-edge solutions that ensure secure, efficient, and seamless payments on a global scale. 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 position will be located in the following location: San Francisco, CA
The Job---

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• You'll refine and execute our multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases, and bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house.
  
• You'll design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payment solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration.
  
• You'll collaborate with engineers, product management, designers, and external partners to design and implement the next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe, creating impact in service of our customers, mission, and business.
  
• You'll mentor junior developers through chat and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within your team.
  
  You---
  
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  • You are a seasoned engineer with deep expertise in payment systems with a track record of building and shipping impactful features. 8+ years of relevant experience in some or many of the following areas: Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding.
    
  • 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, communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and ensuring teams stay 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.
    
    Preferred...
    
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    • Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.
      
      Why you'll love it here...
      
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      • 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 remote flexibility.
        
      • 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.
        
      • 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.
        The total annual salary for this full-time position is $185,000 - $250,000 + equity + benefits. The salary range was determined by role, level, and possible location across the US. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range based on your location during the hiring process.
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