Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Want to help us help others? We’re hiring! 

GoFundMe is the world’s 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 causes—for themselves and each other. Together, our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.

Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Senior Software Engineer (Compliance). This team builds the intelligence layer that powers GoFundMe’s ability to move money safely and at scale. Our mission is to design seamless, integrated tools that unify data across internal and external sources; enabling smarter risk decisions, transaction monitoring, and compliance automation. We sit at the intersection of engineering, risk, and data, crafting systems that help GoFundMe protect users, reduce fraud, and ensure every transaction is trusted, transparent, and compliant.If you’re passionate about building fintech systems that create real-world impact, and you thrive in fast-moving, collaborative environments, this is the place for you.
Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

The Job

• Build the tools that power GoFundMe’s risk intelligence. Design and implement scalable backend services, APIs, and dashboards that integrate data from payment processors, KYC/KYB systems, and internal transaction logs.
• Enable data-driven decisioning. Develop real-time pipelines and tooling for risk evaluation, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection; optimizing for both protection and conversion.
• Bridge risk, compliance, and engineering. Collaborate with Data Platform, Risk, and Product to build automation that enables proactive monitoring, alerting, and case management.
• Own end-to-end systems. From ingestion and normalization to visualization and workflow automation, you’ll drive the architecture for reliable, secure, and auditable risk tooling.
• Advance compliance at scale. Contribute to building frameworks that help GoFundMe remain compliant with global regulations while maintaining a seamless user experience.
• Champion engineering excellence. Participate in code reviews, improve standards, and mentor engineers across data tooling and backend systems.
• Stay close to impact. Participate in on-call rotations to ensure uptime, responsiveness, and reliability for mission-critical systems.

You 

• 5+ years of professional backend software development experience, including building, deploying, and operating customer-facing applications at scale.
• Strong proficiency and hands-on experience with one or more backend programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, PHP).
• Strong proficiency and hands-on experience with event driven development, preferably using Kafka
• Solid professional experience with relational database design, schema modeling, query optimization, and working with ORMs or data access layers.
• Proven experience designing, building, securing, and maintaining GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs using standard frameworks and industry best practices.
• Demonstrable experience identifying, diagnosing, and resolving complex performance and scalability problems in backend systems.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g., branching strategies, code reviews, pull requests) in a team environment.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker) for automated testing and deployment.
• Experience thriving and contributing effectively in an agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Experience using application performance monitoring (APM) and log analytics tools for diagnostics, observability, and alerting.

Why you’ll 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!

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, or military or veteran status.

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Learn more about GoFundMe:

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