# Staff Software Engineer (Payments) at GoFundMe

- Company: GoFundMe
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Greylock and Norwest.
- Company website: http://www.gofundme.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $195K to $293K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gofundme/jobs/7680962
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gofundme-staff-software-engineer-payments/

## About the role

Join us! The GoFundMe team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments organization on the Payouts team, helping us build and scale next-generation payments infrastructure capable of handling billions of dollars in transactions.

## What they're looking for

- Refine and execute GoFundMe's multi-year payments strategy to grow giving through innovative use cases, and bring more of our core payments capabilities in-house
- Design and implement the end-to-end product lifecycle for payout solutions, from ideation to launch and iteration
- Own critical technical decisions across ledgering, money movement, and disbursement, anticipating future use cases and designing to minimize the cost of future change
- Mentor other engineers through chat, code review, and pair programming, and advocate for improvements to the codebase, providing leadership to others within the team
- Lead projects from conception to completion, balancing technical trade-offs and business needs, communicating progress and challenges to stakeholders, and keeping teams aligned with project goals

Tags: Engineering