Staff Software Engineer (Pro Donate)

CrowdRise; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

GoFundMe is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer for the Donate team in the San Francisco Bay Area, with in‑office presence three days a week. You will lead frontend architecture, drive performance and testing, and champion AI-assisted development practices across teams.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, design, and backend stakeholders, and own the end‑to‑end frontend quality and observability for critical payment flows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building, testing, and shipping complex web apps.
• Deep expertise with React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Strong frontend architecture and standards experience.
• Advanced frontend testing and observability capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple frontend projects and shape the checkout experiences.
• Own frontend architecture, component systems, state management, and boundaries.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, patterns, and reviews.
• Drive testing strategy across unit and end-to-end layers.
• Build frontend observability and manage incidents end-to-end.
• Promote AI-assisted development practices to boost velocity and quality.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, design, and backend.

Job description

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 $40billion since 2010.

We are looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to join the Donate team as a senior technical leader. The Donate team builds the hosted and embedded checkout experiences for GoFundMe Pro, our fundraising platform for nonprofits and social‑good organizations. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the role expects an in‑office presence 3times per week.

The Job

• Lead several concurrent projects and help shape the frontend technical roadmap for the team’s checkout experiences, working with a high degree of autonomy.
• Own frontend architecture: design component systems, state management, and module boundaries that stay scalable, testable, and maintainable, and drive down the technical debt and performance bottlenecks that slow the team.
• Set and uphold the team’s engineering standards for code quality, patterns, and code review, and continually raise the bar.
• Own and evolve the team’s testing strategy across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end layers, driving high‑value coverage in payment‑critical flows.
• Build and mature frontend observability (monitoring, alerting, and log analytics), and own incidents end‑to‑end through resolution and post‑mortems, so problems are caught and fixed before they reach donors.
• Champion AI‑assisted development practices, such as agentic workflows and AI‑assisted review and test generation, to raise both velocity and quality.
• Mentor and grow the engineers around you, and partner with product, design, and backend stakeholders to shape priorities and represent frontend engineering across teams.

You

• 8+ years building, testing, and shipping complex, customer‑facing web applications, including 2+ years at Staff or Lead scope (or equivalent technical leadership).
• Deep, hands‑on expertise with React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Proven ownership of frontend architecture that scales across teams and codebases, and a track record of setting engineering standards that others adopt.
• Advanced frontend testing experience, with a proven ability to drive meaningful coverage in business‑critical flows.
• Strong command of client‑side performance and frontend observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, and log analytics) to diagnose, prevent, and optimize issues in production.
• Ability to turn high‑fidelity designs into pixel‑perfect, responsive, and accessible interfaces using design systems and modern CSS.
• Secure‑by‑default practices in payment‑adjacent flows that handle sensitive user data.
• Fluency with Git, CI/CD, and agile, iterative development.

Preferred

• Experience with payments or checkout flows, and operating applications through seasonal or event‑driven peak load.
• Demonstrated use of AI development tooling (agentic workflows, AI‑assisted review or test generation) in production.
• Experience defining observability standards or shared monitoring frameworks for a frontend organization.
• Backend familiarity and integrating frontend apps with modern API layers (GraphQL or REST).
• Infrastructure and delivery tooling: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, orchestration, and cloud platforms.

Why you’ll love it here

• Make an Impact: Be part of a mission‑driven organization that changes 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: Financial assistance for hybrid work, family planning, mandatory parental leave, mental‑health resources, and mandatory time‑off.
• Growth Opportunities: Programs that help you learn, develop, and be recognized.
• Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Community Engagement: Participate in volunteer programs.

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.