Staff Frontend Engineer (COBRA team)

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

GoFundMePro is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place, GoFundMePro 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 GoFundMePro team is looking for our next Staff Frontend Engineer to build and extend our NPO onboarding, reporting, and administrative experiences for the next phase of our business. The ideal candidate will bring complementary experience to a team responsible for full stack development and all phases of the SDLC, including creating all layers of the application from database through to the user interface, quality assurance, and site reliability responsibilities. We want to talk to you if you can see beyond the {brackets} and love transforming designs and mockups into highly-scalable, fault-tolerant products. 

Candidates eligible for this role must reside in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Job…

• Build and support tools and interfaces that improve the onboarding, reporting, and administrative experiences of NPO administrators.
• Participate in the design and implementation of new solutions that support and contribute to our technical roadmap.
• Analyze, design, and develop software that delivers clean, maintainable code within a large and established code base.
• Collaborate closely with a large, cross-functional teams to address tech debt, improve quality, and improve developer efficiency.
• Work across many technologies and tools to create holistic solutions to complex problems.
• Within an Agile environment, work as part of a Scrum team and develop web-based software solutions.
• Participate in a culture of continuous learning and excellence in software development processes and best practices.

You…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with fronted, web-based technologies in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience architecting front-end systems.
• Extensive experience working with React and the ability to evangelize FE best practices.
• Experience working with TypeScript, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Experience with state management, managing hook dependencies, local storage, caching, and performance optimization.
• Experience with code versioning tools (Git/Bitbucket).
• Experience with automated build/test deployment environments.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Experience writing technical documentation for internal and end users.
• Detail-oriented mindset with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies and clearly communicate complex ideas.
• Ability to understand product requirements and translate them into technical subtasks.
• A strong focus on quality, with the ability to evangelize and mentor team members on testing best practices.
• Curiosity, eagerness to learn, humility, and strong collaboration skills.

Preferred:

• Experience working with AWS cloud services (EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Cloudwatch)
• Familiarity with denormalized data stores (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Algolia, etc.) and working with the large data sets
• Proficiency in schema design in relational or NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Experience with observability and logging tools and best practices
• Experience working with remote and/or offshore teams

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!

GoFundMePro 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 [email protected]. 

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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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