Senior Software Engineer

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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.

At GoFundMe, our Communications Platform engineering team is expanding to revolutionize how we engage users and deliver critical updates. We seek a highly motivated senior engineer to help us build and scale mission-critical communication solutions, including emails, push notifications, and SMS. Additionally, you’ll enhance user engagement through user-to-user chats and group chats. This is an exciting opportunity to own and drive scalable resilient solutions that applications and experience teams rely on as backbone.

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

 

The Job…

  • You'll refine and execute communication platform initiatives consisting of innovative use cases to support various application needs.
  • You'll design and implement the end-to-end solutions, from ideation to launch and iterate.
  • You’ll collaborate with engineers, product management, and external partners to design and implement the scalable solutions to our customers, and internal business units..
  • 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 are a seasoned engineer with experience in backend systems with a track record of building and shipping impactful features. 5+ years of relevant experience in backend development of business logic, APIs that service high traffic in a resilient and performant way.
  • You have experience designing 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 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.
  • You have strong experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic.
  • Experience with Rest APIs, Microservices, Spring Boot, Java or Kotlin.

 

Preferred… 

  • Experience with Email systems, Chat, Group messaging, Push notifications, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.

 

Why you’ll love it here...

  • Be a part of a mission-driven organization that positively impacts tens of millions of lives every year.
  • Be a Leader in a high-impact product organization and drive business transformation through product.
  • Collaborate with a diverse, passionate, and talented team in a fast-paced and innovative environment.
  • 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.

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 $X - $X + equity + benefits.  As this is a remote 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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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 ‘24 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.

The Job…

  • EXAMPLE Partner closely with product management and UX designers to shape requirements and deliver features
  • EXAMPLE Develop and maintain a fast, bug-free, and reusable library of web components written in React
  • EXAMPLE Participate in code reviews regularly to provide guidance to junior developers, protect our codebase quality, and ensure that features progress at an acceptable pace

You…

  • EXAMPLE 5+ years of front end engineering experience, with at least two years spent as a lead or senior front end engineer
  • EXAMPLE Significant experience with Javascript frameworks and state management using ReactJS and Redux
  • EXAMPLE fundamentals in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • EXAMPLE You have the skills to create a UI without the help of a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation
  • EXAMPLE Experience with responsive design and mobile-first principles
  • EXAMPLE Experience designing scalable, performant front-end applications
  • EXAMPLE Experience with Javascript build tools like Yarn, Lerna, and Webpack
  • EXAMPLE Passionate about web accessibility
  • EXAMPLE Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR relevant equivalent technical experience.
  • EXAMPLE Ping pong skills, a love for boba tea, and a sense of humor

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.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants:

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 ‘24 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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