GoFundMe

Staff Software Engineer (Payments)

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2 months ago
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Refine and execute GoFundMe’s multi-year payments strategy and bring more 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 managers, designers, and external partners to build next-generation payments infrastructure.
  • Own technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement while minimizing the cost of future change.
  • Mentor engineers through chat, code review, and pair programming and advocate for codebase improvements.
  • Lead projects from conception to completion while balancing technical trade-offs, business needs, and stakeholder alignment.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in payment systems, including areas such as checkout and payment methods, payouts, ledgering, reconciliation, interchange, or KYC/onboarding.
  • Deep expertise in payment systems and a track record of building and shipping impactful features.
  • Experience architecting scalable services and systems using established design patterns and anticipating future use cases.
  • Strong project leadership skills, including balancing technical trade-offs and business needs and communicating with stakeholders.
  • Experience analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems.
  • Expertise with application performance monitoring and log analytics tools such as New Relic and Sumo Logic.
  • Preferred experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, GraphQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
  • Prior experience on a ledgering, payouts, or money-movement team at scale is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid position in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
  • Financial assistance for hybrid work and family planning, generous parental leave, flexible time off, and mental health and wellness resources.
  • Learning, development, recognition, diversity and inclusion, employee resource group, and volunteering programs.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSGraphQLKotlinKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLSpring BootSumo Logic

Categories

GoFundMe

About GoFundMe

1,001-5,000 employees

GoFundMe builds a crowdfunding platform for individuals and nonprofits to raise money for personal needs, community projects, and charitable causes. The company generates revenue primarily through optional donor tips and payment processing fees, and also supports nonprofit fundraising through its Classy subsidiary. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the platform’s community has raised more than $40 billion.

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