Staff Software Engineer (COBRA team)

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

GoFundMe’s Product & Technology team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build and extend our NPO onboarding, reporting, and administrative experiences for the next phase of our business. The ideal candidate will bring complementary experience to a team responsible for full stack development and all phases of the SDLC, including creating all layers of the application from database through to the user interface, quality assurance, and site reliability responsibilities. We want to talk to you if you can see beyond the {brackets} and love transforming designs and mockups into highly-scalable, fault-tolerant products. 

Candidates eligible for this role must reside in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Job…

• Build and support tools and interfaces that improve the onboarding, reporting, and administrative experiences of NPO administrators working in the Classy stack.
• Participate in the design and implementation of new solutions that support and contribute to our technical roadmap.
• Analyze, design, and develop software that delivers clean, maintainable code within a large and established code base.
• Collaborate closely with a large, cross-functional teams to address tech debt, improve quality, and improve developer efficiency.
• Work across many technologies and tools to create holistic solutions to complex problems.
• Within an Agile environment, work as part of a Scrum team and develop web-based software solutions.
• Participate in a culture of continuous learning and excellence in software development processes and best practices.

You…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with fronted, web-based technologies in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience architecting front-end systems.
• Extensive experience working with React and the ability to evangelize FE best practices.
• Experience working with TypeScript, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Experience with state management, managing hook dependencies, local storage, caching, and performance optimization.
• Experience with code versioning tools (Git/Bitbucket).
• Experience with automated build/test deployment environments.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Experience writing technical documentation for internal and end users.
• Detail-oriented mindset with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies and clearly communicate complex ideas.
• Ability to understand product requirements and translate them into technical subtasks.
• A strong focus on quality, with the ability to evangelize and mentor team members on testing best practices.
• Curiosity, eagerness to learn, humility, and strong collaboration skills.

What would be awesome to have (Preferred):

• Experience working with AWS cloud services (EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Cloudwatch)
• Familiarity with denormalized data stores (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Algolia, etc.) and working with the large data sets
• Proficiency in schema design in relational or NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Experience with observability and logging tools and best practices
• Experience working with remote and/or offshore teams

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 are committed to providing diversity, equity, and inclusion training to all employees, and 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.

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Dedication to Diversity 

GoFundMe and Classy are committed to leveraging Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging to cultivate a culture that embraces and supports the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of our people and customers.

Our diversity recruiting priority is recognized under our first DEIB Driver: Opportunity Foster Diversity - we identify, recruit, and invest in top talent- ensure our people reflect the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of the communities we serve and are all given the chance to grow.

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