Staff Software Engineer (Payments)

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GoFundMe is the worlds most powerful community for good dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causesfor themselves and each other. Together our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.

Join us! The GoFundMe team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments organization on the Payouts team helping us build and scale next-generation payments infrastructure capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions.

Youll serve as a Staff IC on the team responsible for ledgering money movement and getting money out to the people who need it. Youll help bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house reducing reliance on external vendors and fintech partners for compliance and control reasons while designing and implementing the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions from ideation to launch and iteration.

This role is ideal for a seasoned technical leader who thrives on solving complex problems in payments setting architectural direction and leading by example through hands-on contributions.

This is a hybrid position. Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires Argentina.

The Job

• Refine and execute GoFundMes multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases and bring more of our 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 management designers and external partners to design and implement next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe creating impact in service of our customers mission and business.
• Own critical technical decisions across ledgering money movement and disbursement anticipating future use cases and designing to minimize the cost of future change.
• Mentor other engineers through chat code review and pair programming and advocate for improvements to the codebase providing leadership to others within the team.
• Lead projects from conception to completion balancing technical trade-offs and business needs communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders and keeping teams aligned with project goals.

You

• Are a seasoned engineer with deep expertise in payment systems and 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Have strong experience analyzing diagnosing and preventing performance problems with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic.

Preferred

• Experience with Spring Boot Kotlin AWS Kafka Kubernetes.
• Experience with GraphQL and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Prior experience on a ledgering payouts or money-movement team at scale.

Why youll love it here

• Make an Impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year.
• Innovative Environment: Work with a diverse passionate and talented team in a fast-paced forward-thinking atmosphere.
• Collaborative Team: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together.
• Competitive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Holistic Support: Enjoy financial assistance for things like hybrid work family planning along with generous parental leave flexible time-off policies and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being.
• Growth Opportunities: Participate in learning development and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow.
• Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity equity and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups.
• Community Engagement: Make a difference through our volunteering program.

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