Senior Software Engineer (Payments)

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

GoFundMe 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.

Join us! The GoFundMe team is looking for our next Senior Software Engineer (Payments) to help build foundational payout and ledgering capabilities that will power disbursements for millions of users every year. This is an opportunity to shape the financial backbone of one of the largest social fundraising platforms, tackling complex challenges in payment orchestration, reconciliation, and compliance.

This is a hybrid role. Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Job

• Build the backbone of GoFundMe’s financial infrastructure. Design and develop scalable backend services for payouts, ledgering, and disbursements that support millions of users worldwide.
• Own end-to-end delivery. From design, development, and testing to deployment, observability, and maintenance of backend services.
• Shape our platform’s evolution. Collaborate with Product, Data, and Risk teams to build capabilities for multi-PSP integrations, reconciliation, and compliance reporting.
• Drive engineering excellence. Participate in code reviews, define best practices, and champion maintainable, testable, and performant systems.
• Mentor and lead. Provide technical guidance to junior engineers, help improve team velocity, and contribute to building a culture of ownership and growth.
• Improve our systems. Identify and reduce technical debt, optimize performance, and enhance system reliability and observability.

You

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend systems in Java, Kotlin, or PHP (or similar JVM languages).
• Solid understanding of relational database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data consistency patterns.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka for distributed messaging and streaming.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining REST APIs.
• Strong grasp of Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience working in Agile, iterative software development environments.
• Strength in performance optimization, observability, and debugging at scale.
• Experience with application performance monitoring (e.g., New Relic, Grafana) and log analytics tools.
• A mindset of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with AWS.

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, payments, or ledgering systems (e.g., payouts, reconciliation, accounting ledgers).
• Familiarity with PSP integrations (Stripe, Adyen, etc.).

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!

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.

The total annual salary for this full-time position is $X - $X + equity + benefits.  As this is a remote position, the salary range was determined by role, level, and possible location across the US. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range based on your location during the hiring process. 

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 accommodationrequests@gofundme.com. 

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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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