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$195,000 – $293,000
Listed on Gofundme’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
GoFundMe seeks a senior payments engineer to design and scale their in-house payout infrastructure, handling billions in transactions while reducing reliance on external fintech vendors. This role suits an experienced technical leader comfortable with complex architectural decisions in ledgering, money movement, and disbursement systems.
Our summary, not Gofundme’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years experience in payments systems (checkout, payouts, ledgering, reconciliation, interchange, or KYC/onboarding)
- Expertise architecting scalable services using established design patterns
- Proven track record leading projects from conception through completion, balancing technical and business priorities
- Strong performance analysis and diagnostics skills with application monitoring tools
Nice to have
- Spring Boot and Kotlin experience
- AWS, Kafka, and Kubernetes expertise
- GraphQL and relational database experience (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- Prior experience on a ledgering, payouts, or money-movement team at scale