Senior Software Engineer (Classy Live)

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! We’re hiring a full stack Senior Software Engineer. Classy Live helps make the world a better place by providing tools that charitable organizations use to hold live fundraising events. We use React and Node.js to provide cloud-hosted tools around live streaming, auctions, and payment processing. We want to talk to you if you are unfazed by the idea of relentlessly refactoring and extending existing systems to make them more robust, maintainable, and scalable.

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

The Job…

• Contribute across the the Classy Live product suite, ranging from improving the usage of livestream / peer-to-peer technology to building a scalable websocket layer to building conversational SMS interfaces that allow attendees to interact with an event (e.g. auctions, donations, signing up)
• Have a critical role in building and maintaining robust, fault-tolerant, backend service layers.
• Drive product development technical reviews of proposed technical design.
• Build and improve core integration between Classy Live and Classy platforms, with a focus on supporting a bi-directional flow of data
• Build reporting and monitoring tools to ensure the stability and security of the system.
• Within an Agile environment, work as part of a cross-functional Scrum team and develop web-based software solutions.
• Participate in an engineering culture of “always be learning” where the sharing and learning from failures is celebrated and the giving and receiving of constructive candid feedback is highly encouraged.

You… 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years building highly scalable projects involving cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation.
• Good understanding of distributed data models with experience debugging distributed systems with high data loads.
• High-level proficiency with Node.js, Javascript ES6, AWS (SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS).
• Ability to understand product requirements and translate them into technical subtasks.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Strong experience writing performant SQL queries for relational and non-relational databases
• Proficiency in schema design in relational or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Deep experience with code versioning tools (GIT/Bitbucket).
• A deep sense of quality, and sharp engineering skills with strong computer science fundamentals.

What would be awesome to have (Preferred):

• Refactoring in microservice patterns
• Experience with building industry standard APIs with large throughputs
• Experience building scalable queuing or workflow solutions
• Experience working with websockets
• Experience building integrations with bidirectional data flows
• Experience with live streaming technology such as AWS Elemental MediaLive, Vonage Video API, Twilio Video API or others

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.

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.

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.

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