Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
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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 (Backend).
What Youll Do (Responsibilities):
- Lead the end-to-end development lifecycle including design implementation testing deployment documentation and maintenance for new and existing backend services APIs and tools.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management fellow engineers (frontend backend SRE) and other stakeholders to define requirements architect solutions and deliver impactful features.
- Architect robust scalable and maintainable backend systems considering factors like performance security and fault tolerance.
- Uphold and elevate engineering standards through active participation in code reviews providing thoughtful feedback and promoting best practices in coding testing and system design.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers within the team fostering a culture of technical excellence learning and collaboration.
- Contribute significantly to system reliability and operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and leading the troubleshooting and resolution of urgent production issues.
- Proactively identify technical debt performance bottlenecks and areas for architectural improvement; design propose and implement effective solutions.
- Advocate for improvements to the codebase infrastructure and development processes demonstrating technical leadership.
What Youll Bring (Required Qualifications):
- 5 years of professional backend software development experience including building deploying and operating customer-facing applications at scale.
- Strong proficiency and hands-on experience with one or more backend programming languages (e.g. Java NodeJS Kotlin Python PHP).
- Solid professional experience with relational database design schema modeling query optimization and working with ORMs or data access layers.
- Proven experience designing building securing and maintaining GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs using standard frameworks and industry best practices.
- Demonstrable experience identifying diagnosing and resolving complex performance and scalability problems in backend systems.
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g. branching strategies code reviews pull requests) in a team environment.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions Spinnaker) for automated testing and deployment.
- Experience thriving and contributing effectively in an agile intensely iterative software development process.
- Experience using application performance monitoring (APM) and log analytics tools for diagnostics observability and alerting.
Preferred:
- Experience with frontend technologies like React NextJs and Typescript.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure (AWS preferred).
- Experience implementing or working with asynchronous processing systems and message queues (e.g. Kafka SQS/SNS).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).
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
