Senior Software Engineer (Payments)

6 Months ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

GoFundMe's Payments Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement a next-generation payments infrastructure. This role involves building cutting-edge solutions for secure, efficient, global payments handling billions of dollars in transactions. Responsibilities include contributing to a multi-year payments strategy, designing the end-to-end product lifecycle for payment solutions, collaborating with various teams, mentoring junior developers, and advocating for codebase improvements. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in backend service design, deployment, and possess expertise in testing, architecture, performance analysis, and payment systems.
Must have:
  • 5+ years backend service design, building, and deployment experience
  • Strong understanding of testing pyramid and unit/higher-level tests
  • Experience architecting scalable services using design patterns
  • Expertise in performance problem analysis and APM tools (New Relic, Sumo Logic)
  • Production-ready, testable, and understandable code writing skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes
  • 2+ years experience in Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding
Perks:
  • Market competitive pay
  • Rich healthcare benefits
  • Supportive time off policies
  • Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, and family planning
  • Mental and wellness programs
  • "Gives Back" Program
  • Employee resource groups

Job Details

Want to help us, help others? We’re hiring! 

GoFundMe is a global community of over 150 million people who come together every day with the common purpose of helping one another. Our mission is to help people help each other through our best in class technology. In 2022, GoFundMe joined together with Classy, a leading nonprofit fundraising software company that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Together, we have empowered people and organizations to raise more than $30 billion since 2010. Our vision is to become the most helpful place in the world

Join us! The GoFundMe Payments Engineering team is searching for our next Software Engineer to help build and scale a next-generation payments infrastructure, capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions and empowering millions of people to create meaningful change in the world. In this role, you’ll design and implement cutting-edge solutions that ensure secure, efficient, and seamless payments on a global scale.

Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Job…

  • You'll contribute towards our multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases, and bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house.
  • You'll design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payment solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration
  • You’ll collaborate with engineers, product management, designers, and external partners to design and implement the next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe, creating impact in service of our customers, mission, and business.
  • You’ll mentor junior developers through chat and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within your team.

You…

  • You consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
  • 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and deploying backend services.
  • You understand the testing pyramid and write unit tests as well as higher-level tests.
  • You 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.
  • You have strong experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic.

Preferred...

  • You are a seasoned engineer with deep expertise in payment systems with a track record of building and shipping impactful features. 2+ years of relevant experience in some or many of the following areas: Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding.
  • Experience with Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.

Why you’ll love it here...

  • Market competitive pay.
  • Rich healthcare benefits and supportive time off policies.
  • Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, and family planning.
  • A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees. 
  • Learning & development and recognition programs.
  • “Gives Back” Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.
  • Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are vital to our priorities and we continue to evolve our strategy to ensure DEI is embedded in all processes and programs at GoFundMe. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team is always finding new ways for our company to uphold and represent the experiences of all of the people in our organization.
  • Employee resource groups.
  • Your work has a real purpose and will help change lives on a global scale.
  • You’ll be a part of a fun, supportive team that works hard and celebrates accomplishments together. 
  • We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose.
  • We are a certified Great Place to Work, are growing fast and have incredible opportunities ahead!

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to providing diversity, equity, and inclusion training to all employees, and 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.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact us at accommodationrequests@gofundme.com

Dedication to Diversity 

GoFundMe and Classy are committed to leveraging Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging to cultivate a culture that embraces and supports the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of our people and customers.

Our diversity recruiting priority is recognized under our first DEIB Driver: Opportunity Foster Diversity - we identify, recruit, and invest in top talent- ensure our people reflect the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of the communities we serve and are all given the chance to grow.

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Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or certain US privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. 

Learn more about GoFundMe:

We’re proud to partner with GoFundMe.org, 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 GoFundMe.org’s activities and impact in their FY ‘23 annual report.

Our annual “Year in Help” report reflects our community’s impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other.

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