Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)
Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)
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Want to help us help others Were hiring!
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 searching for our next Senior Software Engineer (Frontend).
What Youll Do (Responsibilities):
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers Product Designers and Backend Engineers to translate ideas and requirements into high-quality user-centric features and improvements on the GoFundMe platform.
- Lead the development of features primarily on the frontend with opportunities to contribute across the full stack as needed.
- Uphold and elevate our engineering standards by actively participating in code reviews providing constructive feedback and mentoring other engineers on best practices for style maintainability and performance.
- Independently drive the development and shipment of brand-new features and complex improvements demonstrating strong ownership from conception through to deployment with minimal guidance.
- Contribute to platform stability and reliability by participating in on-call rotations and effectively troubleshooting urgent engineering issues.
- Proactively identify areas of technical debt and architectural weaknesses; design propose and implement effective solutions to enhance codebase health and scalability.
- Champion continuous improvement within the team by advocating for enhancements to our codebase tools and processes; provide technical leadership and guidance to fellow team members.
What Youll Bring (Required Qualifications):
- 5 years of professional experience developing testing and shipping complex customer-facing web applications.
- Direct professional experience with React and TypeScript.
- Proven ability to translate high-fidelity mockups and designs into beautiful pixel-perfect responsive and accessible web applications using tools such as UI design systems and modern CSS techniques/frameworks.
- Solid experience with frontend testing methodologies and tools (e.g. Jest Playwright) and code quality linters/formatters (e.g. ESLint).
- Strong understanding and practical experience with client-side performance analysis and optimization techniques.
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (branching code reviews pull requests) in a team environment.
- Experience working effectively in an agile intensely iterative software development process.
- Familiarity with application performance monitoring (APM) and log analytics tools to diagnose and address issues.
Preferred:
- Experience with backend development particularly using Java NodeJS or Kotlin.
- Experience integrating frontend applications with GraphQL APIs.
- Hands-on experience implementing and utilizing observability tools (monitoring logging alerting).
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines specifically using GitHub Actions and merge queues.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes / K8s) and cloud platforms (AWS).
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 and Gives Back programs.
We live by our core values: impatient to be great find a way earn trust every day fueled by purpose. Be a part of something bigger with us!
GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences. 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.
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Learn more about GoFundMe:
Were proud to partner with an independent public charity to extend the reach and impact of our generous community while helping drive critical social change. You can learn more about activities and impact in their FY 24 annual report.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
