Senior Software Engineer (Giving)

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience working with backend programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, PHP) on a customer-facing application.
• Professional experience with relational database design.
• Professional experience developing GraphQL or REST APIs using any standard framework.
• Experience using Git in a workplace environment.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling in a development environment.
• Experience working in an agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and the ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and log analytics tools.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll collaborate with a team of engineers and product management to implement new features on the GoFundMe Giving team.
• You'll be responsible for development, testing, deployment, documentation, and maintenance of new and existing backend services and tools.
• You’ll participate in code reviews to maintain internal standards for style, maintainability, and excellence.
• You’ll participate in on-call rotations to assist in solving urgent engineering issues.
• You’ll recognize technical debt, propose and implement solutions.
• You’ll advocate for improvements to the codebase, and provide leadership to others within your team.