Responsibilities
- Lead several concurrent projects and shape the frontend technical roadmap for checkout experiences.
- Own frontend architecture, including component systems, state management, module boundaries, technical debt reduction, and performance improvements.
- Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, patterns, and code review.
- Own and evolve unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategy for payment-critical flows.
- Build and mature frontend observability through monitoring, alerting, and log analytics.
- Own incidents through resolution and postmortems.
- Champion agentic workflows and AI-assisted review and test generation.
- Mentor engineers and partner with product, design, and backend stakeholders on priorities.
- Represent frontend engineering across teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building, testing, and shipping complex customer-facing web applications, including 2+ years at Staff or Lead scope or equivalent technical leadership.
- Deep hands-on expertise with React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
- Proven ownership of scalable frontend architecture and experience establishing engineering standards adopted by others.
- Advanced frontend testing experience across business-critical flows.
- Strong command of client-side performance and frontend observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and log analytics.
- Ability to implement pixel-perfect, responsive, accessible interfaces from high-fidelity designs using design systems and modern CSS.
- Secure-by-default practices for payment-adjacent flows handling sensitive user data.
- Fluency with Git, CI/CD, and agile iterative development.
- Preferred experience with payments or checkout flows and operating applications during seasonal or event-driven peak loads.
- Preferred experience using AI development tooling, defining frontend observability standards, backend integrations, GraphQL or REST, containerization, orchestration, and cloud platforms.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with an in-office expectation of three days per week in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- 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.
About GoFundMe
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