Staff Software Engineer (Back End)

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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 searching for our next Staff Software Engineer to help out Tooling team to build the intelligence layer that powers GoFundMes ability to move money safely and at scale. Our mission is to design seamless integrated tools that unify data across internal and external sources; enabling smarter risk decisions transaction monitoring and compliance automation.

We sit at the intersection of engineering risk and data crafting systems that help GoFundMe protect users reduce fraud and ensure every transaction is trusted transparent and compliant.

If youre passionate about building fintech systems that create real-world impact and you thrive in fast-moving collaborative environments this is the place for you.

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

The Job

• Build the tools that power GoFundMes risk intelligence. Design and implement scalable backend services APIs and dashboards that integrate data from payment processors KYC/KYB systems and internal transaction logs.
• Enable data-driven decisioning. Develop real-time pipelines and tooling for risk evaluation transaction monitoring and fraud detection; optimizing for both protection and conversion.
• Bridge risk compliance and engineering. Collaborate with Data Platform Risk and Product to build automation that enables proactive monitoring alerting and case management.
• Own end-to-end systems. From ingestion and normalization to visualization and workflow automation youll drive the architecture for reliable secure and auditable risk tooling.
• Advance compliance at scale. Contribute to building frameworks that help GoFundMe remain compliant with global regulations while maintaining a seamless user experience.
• Champion engineering excellence. Participate in code reviews improve standards and mentor engineers across data tooling and backend systems.
• Stay close to impact. Participate in on-call rotations to ensure uptime responsiveness and reliability for mission-critical systems.

You...

• 8 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 Kotlin 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.

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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