Staff Software Engineer (Pro Donate)

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GoFundMe is the worlds 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 causesfor themselves and each other. Together our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.

Join us! The GoFundMe Pro team is looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to join the Donate team as a senior technical leader. The Donate team builds the hosted and embedded checkout experiences for GoFundMe Pro our fundraising platform for nonprofits and social-good organizations.

You will lead several projects at once help shape the frontend technical roadmap and set the engineering standards the team builds to treating code quality test coverage and observability as first-class parts of the product rather than afterthoughts. It is a role for someone who is energized by clean architecture strong testing and sharp observability and who wants that craft to have a direct impact on causes that matter.

Candidates considered for this role will be located in the San Francisco Bay Area. There will be an in-office expectation of 3x a week.

The Job

• Lead several concurrent projects and help shape the frontend technical roadmap for the teams checkout experiences working with a high degree of autonomy.
• Own frontend architecture: design component systems state management and module boundaries that stay scalable testable and maintainable and drive down the technical debt and performance bottlenecks that slow the team.
• Set and uphold the teams engineering standards for code quality patterns and code review and continually raise the bar.
• Own and evolve the teams testing strategy across unit integration and end-to-end layers driving high-value coverage in payment-critical flows.
• Build and mature frontend observability (monitoring alerting and log analytics) and own incidents end-to-end through resolution and postmortems so problems are caught and fixed before they reach donors.
• Champion AI-assisted development practices such as agentic workflows and AI-assisted review and test generation to raise both velocity and quality.
• Mentor and grow the engineers around you and partner with product design and backend stakeholders to shape priorities and represent frontend engineering across teams.

You

• 8 years building testing and shipping complex customer-facing web applications including 2 years at Staff or Lead scope (or equivalent technical leadership).
• Deep hands-on expertise with React and TypeScript.
• Proven ownership of frontend architecture that scales across teams and codebases and a track record of setting engineering standards others adopt.
• Advanced frontend testing experience with a proven ability to drive meaningful coverage in business-critical flows.
• Strong command of client-side performance and frontend observability (monitoring logging alerting and log analytics) to diagnose prevent and optimize issues in production.
• Ability to turn high-fidelity designs into pixel-perfect responsive and accessible interfaces using design systems and modern CSS.
• Secure-by-default practices in payment-adjacent flows that handle sensitive user data.
• Fluency with Git CI/CD and agile iterative development.

Preferred

• Experience with payments or checkout flows and operating applications through seasonal or event-driven peak load.
• Demonstrated use of AI development tooling (agentic workflows AI-assisted review or test generation) in production.
• Experience defining observability standards or shared monitoring frameworks for a frontend organization.
• Backend familiarity and integrating frontend apps with modern API layers (GraphQL or REST).
• Infrastructure and delivery tooling: CI/CD pipelines containerization orchestration and cloud platforms.

Why youll 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 program.

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!

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