Senior Backend Engineer
Skedulo
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGraphQLJavaJavaScriptKotlinKubernetesNode.jsScala
Senior Software Engineer, Checkout Experience, Frontend
GoFundMe.org
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $156,000 - $234,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDockerGraphQLJavaJavaScriptJestKotlinKubernetesNext.jsNode.jsReactTypeScript
About the role
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Backend Engineers to translate ideas and requirements into high-quality, user-centric features and improvements on the GoFundMe platform
- Lead the development of features primarily on the frontend, with opportunities to contribute across the full stack as needed
- Uphold and elevate our engineering standards by actively participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback, and mentoring other engineers on best practices for style, maintainability, and performance
- Independently drive the development and shipment of brand-new features and complex improvements, demonstrating strong ownership from conception through to deployment with minimal guidance
- Contribute to platform stability and reliability by participating in on-call rotations and effectively troubleshooting urgent engineering issues
- Proactively identify areas of technical debt and architectural weaknesses; design, propose, and implement effective solutions to enhance codebase health and scalability
- Champion continuous improvement within the team by advocating for enhancements to our codebase, tools, and processes; provide technical leadership and guidance to fellow team members
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience developing, testing, and shipping complex, customer-facing web applications
- Experience developing frontend Checkout payments experiences
- Direct professional experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Proven ability to translate high-fidelity mockups and designs into beautiful, pixel-perfect, responsive, and accessible web applications using tools such as UI design systems and modern CSS techniques/frameworks
- Solid experience with frontend testing methodologies and tools (e.g., Jest, Playwright) and code quality linters/formatters (e.g., ESLint)
- Strong understanding and practical experience with client-side performance analysis and optimization techniques
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (branching, code reviews, pull requests) in a team environment
- Experience working effectively in an agile, intensely iterative software development process
- Familiarity with application performance monitoring (APM) and log analytics tools to diagnose and address issues
- Candidates considered for this role will be located in the San Francisco, Bay Area and there will be an in-office requirement of 3x a week
- Nice-to-have:
- Experience with backend development using Java, NodeJS or Kotlin
- Experience integrating frontend applications with GraphQL APIs
- Hands-on experience implementing and utilizing observability tools (monitoring, logging, alerting)
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, specifically using GitHub Actions and merge queues
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes / K8s), and cloud platforms (AWS)
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Equity
- Financial assistance for things like hybrid work
- Family planning financial assistance
- Generous parental leave
- Flexible time-off policies
- Mental health and wellness resources
- Learning, development, and recognition programs
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and employee resource groups
- Volunteering and Gives Back programs
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptJestPlaywrightESLintGitJavaNodeJSKotlin
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringownershiptroubleshootingcontinuous improvementtechnical leadership
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