Senior Software Engineer (Auth & Identity)

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

GoFundMe is the world’s 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 causes—for 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 Senior Software Engineer on the Auth & Identity team to help ensure that every user can securely and seamlessly access the platform. Your work will help protect the identities and data of millions of supporters and thousands of NPOs by designing systems that are both highly secure and user-friendly. From authentication and authorization to identity verification and fraud prevention, you will help lay the technical foundation that enables safe, trusted, and inclusive participation in fundraising. By advancing GoFundMe’s commitment to security, privacy, and accessibility, your contributions will drive user trust, platform integrity, and the success of meaningful causes around the world.

The Job…

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to develop and enhance features for GoFundMe.
• Work on a combination of backend and frontend, while leveraging third-party vendors to build a robust platform and user experiences.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure adherence to internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
• Independently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance.
• Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve urgent engineering issues.
• Identify technical debt and proactively propose and implement solutions.
• Advocate for codebase improvements and provide leadership and guidance within the team.

You… 

• Have 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining secure and scalable backend systems, ideally with high availability and resilience requirements.
• Are proficient in relational database design and performance optimization for large-scale applications.
• Are confident working with Git and modern version control practices in collaborative team environments.
• Are comfortable working in an agile, iterative development process with a strong product and security focus.
• Have experience solving performance, scalability, and availability challenges in production systems, and implementing proactive strategies to mitigate them.
• Are familiar with application performance monitoring and log aggregation tools—we use New Relic and Sumo Logic.
• Understand security and privacy best practices, particularly in the context of authentication, session management, and data protection.

Preferred… 

• Experience integrating with or building Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, including SSO, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and account linking/merging workflows.
• Familiarity with or direct experience using Identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta, Auth0, AWS Cognito, or custom in-house solutions.
• Experience with Kotlin and/or Java, ideally in conjunction with GraphQL for service-layer development.
• Familiarity with PHP and Laravel, and REST best practices.
• Proficiency with React, Next.js, or other modern frontend frameworks for the purpose of supporting and integrating IAM solutions.
• Experience deploying applications to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitHub Actions, merge queues, and release orchestration in multi-team environments.
• Experience working in environments where compliance, auditability, and data residency are important considerations (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, Etc).

Why you’ll 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 and Gives Back programs.

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!

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences.  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. 

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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.

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