Senior Software Engineer

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.

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

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Backend Engineers to translate ideas and requirements into high-quality, user-centric features and improvements on the GoFundMe platform.
• Lead the development of features primarily on the frontend, with opportunities to contribute across the full stack as needed.
• Uphold and elevate our engineering standards by actively participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback, and mentoring other engineers on best practices for style, maintainability, and performance.
• Independently drive the development and shipment of brand-new features and complex improvements, demonstrating strong ownership from conception through to deployment with minimal guidance.
• Contribute to platform stability and reliability by participating in on-call rotations and effectively troubleshooting urgent engineering issues.
• Proactively identify areas of technical debt and architectural weaknesses; design, propose, and implement effective solutions to enhance codebase health and scalability.
• Champion continuous improvement within the team by advocating for enhancements to our codebase, tools, and processes; provide technical leadership and guidance to fellow team members.

What You'll Bring (Required Qualifications):

• 5+ years of professional experience developing, testing, and shipping complex, customer-facing web applications.
• Direct professional experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Proven ability to translate high-fidelity mockups and designs into beautiful, pixel-perfect, responsive, and accessible web applications using tools such as UI design systems and modern CSS techniques/frameworks.
• Solid experience with frontend testing methodologies and tools (e.g., Jest, Playwright) and code quality linters/formatters (e.g., ESLint).
• Strong understanding and practical experience with client-side performance analysis and optimization techniques.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (branching, code reviews, pull requests) in a team environment.
• Experience working effectively in an agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Familiarity with application performance monitoring (APM) and log analytics tools to diagnose and address issues.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

• Experience with backend development, particularly using Java, NodeJS or Kotlin.
• Experience integrating frontend applications with GraphQL APIs.
• Hands-on experience implementing and utilizing observability tools (monitoring, logging, alerting).
• Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, specifically using GitHub Actions and merge queues.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes / K8s), and cloud platforms (AWS).

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 [email protected]. 

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.

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