Manager, Software Engineering (Payments)

1 Month ago • 3-5 Years • Human Resource

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Job Description

GoFundMe's Payments engineering team seeks a highly motivated Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team responsible for designing and implementing a next-generation payments infrastructure. This role involves building and scaling systems to handle billions of dollars in transactions globally. Responsibilities include hiring and retaining a high-performing team, executing a multi-year payments strategy, partnering with cross-functional teams, and ensuring secure, efficient, and seamless payments. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and 5+ years in payment systems, with expertise in architecture, project management, and balancing technical trade-offs with business needs.
Must have:
  • 3+ years Engineering Manager experience
  • 5+ years in payment systems (Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts etc.)
  • Deep expertise in payment systems
  • Strong systems architecture expertise
  • Project leadership and delivery skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes
Perks:
  • Market competitive pay
  • Rich healthcare benefits
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
  • Hybrid workplace
  • Monetary support for new hire setup
  • Mental and wellness programs
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Company provided life and disability coverages
  • Supportive time off policies
  • Learning & development programs
  • Gives Back Program
  • Employee resource groups
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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! Our Payments engineering team is expanding to revolutionize how payments work at scale. We seek a highly motivated engineering manager to help us build and scale a next-generation payments infrastructure capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions, empowering millions of people to create meaningful change in the world.

In this role, you’ll hire and grow a team to design and implement cutting-edge solutions that ensure secure, efficient, and seamless payments on a global scale. Join us if you're excited to grow both personally and professionally while making a direct impact on GoFundMe’s products, users, and the causes that matter most.

This is a hybrid position; candidates considered for this role will be located in San Francisco.

The Job…

  • You will attract, hire, and retain a high-performing engineering team based in the U.S. and Buenos Aires.
  • You'll refine and execute our multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases, and bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house.
  • You’ll partner with engineering, product, designers, and external partners to design and implement the next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe.

You… 

  • You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading small to mid-sized teams.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in some or many of the following areas: Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding. You have deep expertise in payment systems with a track record of shipping impactful features.
  • You have strong expertise in systems architecture to lead and guide teams in designing scalable, high-performance systems.
  • You are skilled at leading projects from conception to completion, ensuring timely delivery by balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and ensuring teams stay aligned with project goals.

Preferred… 

  • Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

Why you’ll love it here...

  • Market competitive pay.
  • Rich healthcare benefits including employer paid premiums for medical/dental/vision (100% for employee-only plans and 85% for employee + dependent plans) and employer HSA contributions. 
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
  • Hybrid workplace with remote flexibility for many roles.
  • Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, family planning, and commuting expenses.
  • A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees.   
  • Generous paid parental leave and family planning stipend.
  • Company provided life and disability coverages.
  • Supportive time off policies including vacation, sick/mental health days, volunteer days, company holidays, and a floating holiday.
  • 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.

The total annual salary for this full-time position is $210,000 - $280,000 + equity + benefits.  As this is a hybrid position, the salary range was determined by role, level, and possible location across the US. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range based on your location during the hiring process. 

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.

For recent company news and announcements, visit our Newsroom.

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$210.0K - $280.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$245.0K/yr avg.
San Francisco, California, United States

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