Software Engineer; Incubation

Position: Staff Software Engineer (Incubation)
Overview

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

Go Fund Me  is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place, Go Fund Me  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! Go Fund Me  is searching for a passionate and driven Staff Software Engineer with a strong background in building scalable, high-performance fintech or wealth management systems. In this high-impact role, you will design and develop innovative infrastructure from the ground up to support large-scale, mission-driven fintech products that empower millions of people globally. Your work will directly contribute to building seamless, user-friendly experiences, enabling individuals to contribute to causes and make meaningful change in the world.

As a key technical leader, you ll have the opportunity to shape the architecture and direction of our systems, driving impact for both the company and the users we serve. Join us if you re excited to grow both personally and professionally while making a direct impact on Go Fund Me ’s products, users, and the causes that matter most.

Candidates considered for this position will be located in:
San Francisco, CA This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with 2–3 days per week of in-office collaboration.

The Job

• You’ll collaborate with a team of engineers, product management, designers and external partners to identify and implement improvements and new features for the Go Fund Me  fintech products.

• You’ll take ownership of the entire product development life cycle which includes architectural design, development, deployment, documentation and maintenance of new and existing backend services and tools.

• You’ll provide mentorship to junior developers, advocate for improvements to the codebase, and provide leadership to others within your team.

• You’ll own the technical roadmap for these new products, prioritizing features based on cutting-edge technology, user needs, and technical feasibility to deliver high-value solutions.

• Conduct deep technical exploration to stay ahead of industry trends, and leverage that knowledge to design systems that stand up to market demands, while pushing the boundaries of innovation.

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for your products, using data-driven insights to iterate, optimize, and enhance the overall user experience and technical performance.

• Lead the engineering efforts for product launches and own the post-launch technical strategy to ensure products scale and perform successfully in the market.

• You are a seasoned engineer with a track record of building and shipping impactful features. You have 8+ years of relevant experience across various technical domains such as scalable backend systems, complex infrastructure, APIs, or distributed systems.

• You can navigate through ambiguity and assist the product team with scoping and discovery, helping to shape solutions and define clear paths forward.

• You have experience architecting services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to enable future scaling. You anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future change.

• You are skilled at leading projects from conception to completion, ensuring timely delivery by balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, while communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and keeping teams aligned with project goals.

• You have strong experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools.

• Experience in areas such as financial transaction systems, digital wallets, ledgering, reconciliation, compliance (e.g., KYC), and payment infrastructure is a plus.

Preferred

• Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin or Java, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.

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.

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