Senior Software Engineer (Giving) at GoFundMe

GoFundMe, a global community dedicated to helping people, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Giving team. This role is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Senior Backend Engineer will collaborate with a team of engineers and product managers to implement new features for GoFundMe's Giving team. They will be responsible for the entire lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, documentation, and maintenance. The engineer will also participate in code reviews, identify technical debt, and advocate for improvements to the codebase.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of engineers and product management to implement new features.
• Development, testing, deployment, documentation and maintenance of new and existing backend services and tools
• Participate in code reviews.
• Participate in on-call rotations to assist in solving urgent engineering issues.
• Recognize technical debt, propose and implement solutions.
• Advocate for improvements to the codebase, and provide leadership to others within your team.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Professional experience working with backend programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, php) on a customer-facing application.
• Professional experience with relational database design.
• Professional experience developing GraphQL or REST APIs using any standard framework.
• Experience using Git in a workplace environment.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling in a development environment
• Experience working in an agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and the ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and log analytics tools.

GoFundMe offers:

• Market competitive pay.
• Rich healthcare benefits including employer paid premiums for medical/dental/vision (100% for employee-only plans and 85% for employee + dependent plans) and employer HSA contributions.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Hybrid workplace with fully remote flexibility for many roles.
• Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, family planning, and commuting expenses.
• A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees.
• Generous paid parental leave and family planning stipend.
• Company provided life and disability coverages.
• Supportive time off policies including vacation, sick/mental health days, volunteer days, company holidays, and a floating holiday.
• Learning & development and recognition programs.