Senior 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 looking for our next Senior Software Engineer (Payments) to help build foundational payout and ledgering capabilities that will power disbursements for millions of users every is an opportunity to shape the financial backbone of one of the largest social fundraising platforms tackling complex challenges in payment orchestration reconciliation and compliance.

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

The Job

• Build the backbone of GoFundMes financial infrastructure. Design and develop scalable backend services for payouts ledgering and disbursements that support millions of users worldwide.
• Own end-to-end delivery. From design development and testing to deployment observability and maintenance of backend services.
• Shape our platforms evolution. Collaborate with Product Data and Risk teams to build capabilities for multi-PSP integrations reconciliation and compliance reporting.
• Drive engineering excellence. Participate in code reviews define best practices and champion maintainable testable and performant systems.
• Mentor and lead. Provide technical guidance to junior engineers help improve team velocity and contribute to building a culture of ownership and growth.
• Improve our systems. Identify and reduce technical debt optimize performance and enhance system reliability and observability.

You

• 5 years of experience building and maintaining backend systems in Java Kotlin or PHP (or similar JVM languages).
• Solid understanding of relational database design (PostgreSQL MySQL) and data consistency patterns.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka for distributed messaging and streaming.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining REST APIs.
• Strong grasp of Git CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience working in Agile iterative software development environments.
• Strength in performance optimization observability and debugging at scale.
• Experience with application performance monitoring (e.g. New Relic Grafana) and log analytics tools.
• A mindset of ownership accountability and continuous improvement.
• Experience with AWS.

Preferred

• Experience in fintech payments or ledgering systems (e.g. payouts reconciliation accounting ledgers).
• Familiarity withPSP integrations (Stripe Adyen etc.).

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.

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!

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