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We’re hiring! \nGoFundMe 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.\nJoin us! The GoFundMe team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments organization, helping us build and scale next-generation payments infrastructure capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions. You'll serve as a Staff IC helping bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house - reducing reliance on external vendors and fintech partners for compliance and control reasons - while designing and implementing the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration.\nThis role is ideal for a seasoned technical leader who thrives on solving complex problems in payments, setting architectural direction, and leading by example through hands-on contributions.\nThis is a hybrid position. Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\nThe Job\nRefine and execute GoFundMe's multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases, and bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house.\nDesign and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration.\nCollaborate 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.\nOwn critical technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, anticipating future use cases and designing to minimize the cost of future change.\nMentor other engineers through chat, code review, and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within the team.\nLead 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.\nYou\nAre a seasoned engineer with deep expertise in payment systems and a track record of building and shipping impactful features. 8+ years of relevant experience in some or many of the following areas: Checkout/Payment methods, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding.\nHave 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.\nAre 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.\nHave strong experience analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic.\nPreferred\nExperience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.\nExperience with GraphQL and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.\nPrior experience on a ledgering, payouts, or money-movement team at scale.\nWhy you’ll love it here\nMake an Impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year.\nInnovative Environment: Work with a diverse, passionate, and talented team in a fast-paced, forward-thinking atmosphere.\nCollaborative Team: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together.\nCompetitive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.\nHolistic 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.\nGrowth Opportunities: Participate in learning, development, and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow.\nCommitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups.\nCommunity Engagement: Make a difference through our volunteering program.\nWe 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!\nGoFundMe 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.\nIf 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 . \nGlobal Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants:\nDepending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or certain US privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is availablehere. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. \nLearn more about GoFundMe:\nWe’re proud to partner withGoFundMe.org, an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change. 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