Staff Software Engineer (Payments)

GoFundMe•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

GoFundMe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Payments organization on the Payouts team. This role involves building and scaling next-generation payments infrastructure capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions. The engineer will be a senior individual contributor responsible for ledgering money movement and disbursing funds. The position aims to bring more core payments capabilities in-house, reducing reliance on external vendors and fintech partners for compliance and control. The role requires designing and implementing the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions. This position is ideal for a seasoned technical leader who excels at solving complex problems in payments, setting architectural direction, and leading through hands-on contributions. The role is hybrid and located in San Francisco.

Requirements

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.
Experience architecting services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to enable future scaling.
Anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future change.
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.
Strong experience analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes.
Experience with GraphQL and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Prior experience on a ledgering, payouts, or money-movement team at scale.

Responsibilities

Refine 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.
Design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration.
Collaborate 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.
Own critical technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, anticipating future use cases and designing to minimize the cost of future change.
Mentor other engineers through chat, code review, and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within the team.
Lead 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.