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Staff Software Engineer
Company | GoFundMe |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $181000 – $271000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience across various technical domains such as scalable backend systems, complex infrastructure, APIs, or distributed systems
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity and assist the product team with scoping and discovery
- Experience architecting services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to enable future scaling
- Skilled at leading projects from conception to completion, ensuring timely delivery by balancing technical trade-offs and business needs
- Strong experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and preventing performance problems, with expertise in application performance monitoring and log analytics tools like New Relic and Sumo Logic
Responsibilities
- Drive the strategy for new and innovative products within the Incubation team
- Take ownership of the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch and beyond
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure solutions are built with precision, scale, and impact
- Own the technical roadmap for new products, prioritizing features based on technology, user needs, and technical feasibility
- Conduct deep technical exploration to stay ahead of industry trends and design systems that meet market demands
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for products, using data-driven insights to iterate and enhance user experience
- Lead the engineering efforts for product launches and own the post-launch technical strategy
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin or Java, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes