Staff Software Engineer (Payments)

Go Fund Me
Buenos Aires
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Stakeholder communication","Problem-solving","Hands-on engineering"]

Build and scale next-generation GoFundMe payments infrastructure for the Payouts team. Serve as a Staff-level IC owning critical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, and bringing core payment capabilities in-house. Refine and execute a multi-year payments strategy, design and implement the end-to-end payout lifecycle, and collaborate cross-functionally while mentoring engineers and leading projects from conception to completion.

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Go Fund Me
Go Fund Me
1 week ago

Staff Software Engineer (Payments)

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Job Summary

Build and scale next-generation GoFundMe payments infrastructure for the Payouts team. Serve as a Staff-level IC owning critical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, and bringing core payment capabilities in-house. Refine and execute a multi-year payments strategy, design and implement the end-to-end payout lifecycle, and collaborate cross-functionally while mentoring engineers and leading projects from conception to completion.
Location: Buenos Aires
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Refine and execute the multi-year payments strategy to grow giving and bring core payment capabilities in-house.
  • •Design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions from ideation through launch and iteration.
  • •Collaborate with engineers, product management, designers, and external partners to implement next-generation payments infrastructure.
  • •Own critical technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, anticipating future use cases.
  • •Mentor engineers via chat, code review, and pair programming, and lead projects from conception to completion while managing trade-offs and stakeholder alignment.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeaveFlexible Time-offLearning BudgetHybrid Work

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of relevant experience in payment systems, including areas like checkout/payment methods, payouts, ledgering, reconciliation, interchange, and KYC/onboarding.
  • •Deep expertise building and shipping impactful features in payment systems.
  • •Experience architecting services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to enable scaling and minimize future change costs.
  • •Strong project leadership from conception to completion, balancing technical trade-offs with business needs and aligning stakeholders.
  • •Experience diagnosing and preventing performance issues using application performance monitoring and log analytics tools.
Experience:8+ years
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipStakeholder communicationProblem-solvingHands-on engineering
Tech Stack:Spring BootKotlinAWSKafkaKubernetesGraphQLMySQLPostgreSQLNew RelicSumo Logic

Company Brief

Go Fund Me
Operates an online crowdfunding platform that enables individuals and organizations to raise money for personal causes, medical expenses, charities, and community projects through donations from the public.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: San Diego, United States
Founded: 2010
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