Staff Software Engineer

GoFundMe•San Francisco, CA

4h•$219,600 - $268,400•Remote

About The Position

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. The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Staff Software Engineer to help GoFundMe Pro team. One of GoFundMe’s fastest growing business segments is GoFundMe Pro, a platform that enables Non Profit Organizations (NPOs) to fundraise, host events, connect with donors, and leverage deep data insights to maximize their impact. The GoFundMe Pro Onboarding team is hiring a full stack staff software engineer to accelerate time to value for new NPO users coming to our platform. You’ll guide a team of engineers to shape how NPOs get started. You’ll give NPO administrators deep and actionable data insights, AI driven tools, and help them successfully launch fundraising campaigns tailored to their needs.

Requirements

Proven experience operating as a staff engineer or equivalent, with measurable impact across multiple teams or systems.
Excellent understanding of distributed systems, including debugging distributed systems with high data loads.
Demonstrated successful leadership of complex technical projects with cross-team collaboration and clear business impact.
History of improving back-end and front-end application performance metrics.
Track record of identifying and implementing best practices in software systems.
Strong experience with React, ES6, TypeScript, Node.js, and front-end frameworks.
Expertise in schema design and data modeling in SQL and NoSQL databases.
Experience designing and evolving APIs (REST, GraphQL), including authentication and security best practices.
Significant experience working with AI agents, agent orchestrators, and MCP servers.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the technical strategy for the Onboarding team, and influence the technical direction of GoFundMe Pro.
Partner with product, design and data to solve the team’s hardest problems with clear business outcomes.
Lead cross-team technical initiatives, driving alignment on architecture, APIs, and platform capabilities.
Act as a technical multiplier: Mentor senior engineers, raise engineering standards, and guide complex technical decisions.
Design and build scalable full-stack systems across web applications, back end services, and data pipelines.
Drive improvements in system performance, reliability, observability, and developer velocity, and AI adoption.
Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions to promote collaboration and define best practices for fullstack development.
Identify and drive simplification of systems to accelerate delivery across teams.
Create an environment that encourages innovation and collaboration.