Staff Software Engineer (Payments)

Job Summary

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments organization on the Payouts team. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of relevant experience in payment systems and will be located in San Francisco.

About the Role

Design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration. Collaborate with engineers, product management, designers, and external partners to design and implement next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe. Own critical technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, anticipating future use cases and designing to minimize the cost of future change. Mentor other engineers through chat, code review, and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within the team. Lead projects from conception to completion, balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and keeping teams aligned with project goals.

Responsibilities

• Refine and execute GoFundMe's multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases.
• Bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house.
• Design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration.
• Collaborate with engineers, product management, designers, and external partners to design and implement next-generation payments infrastructure for GoFundMe, creating impact in service of our customers, mission, and business.
• Own critical technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, anticipating future use cases and designing to minimize the cost of future change.
• Mentor other engineers through chat, code review, and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within the team.
• Lead projects from conception to completion, balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and ensuring teams stay aligned with project goals.

Requirements

• Seasoned engineer with deep expertise in payment systems and a track record of building and shipping impactful features.
• Experience architecting services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to enable future scaling.
• Able to anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future change.
• 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.
• Strong experience analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.
• Experience with GraphQL and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Prior experience on a ledgering, payouts, or money-movement team at scale.

Benefits

Competitive benefits, including healthcare, dental, vision, life insurance, and a 401(k) savings program. In addition to this wage, there are geolocation differentials that will increase pay depending on the work location. Pay may also vary depending on other factors including skills, experience, education, or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific total compensation package based on your location during the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.