Senior Design Engineer at GoFundMe

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

GoFundMe is a global community of over 150 million people who come together every day with the common purpose of helping one another. Our mission is to help people help each other through our best in class technology. In 2022, GoFundMe joined together with Classy, a leading nonprofit fundraising software company that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Together, we have empowered people and organizations to raise more than $30 billion since 2010. Our vision is to become the most helpful place in the world.

Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Senior Design Engineer to help shape and improve our Heart Design System. As an engineer here, you’ll support our component library and our documentation, improve our collaboration with other teams, and update internal workflows. Our objectives are to drive productivity gains for our teammates; promote cohesive, inclusive customer experiences that are authentic to the GoFundMe brand; and improve our users' perception of quality.

This is a hybrid position. Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

The Job…

• Work directly with designers and engineers to implement deliverable features, additions, and improvements to all areas of the product.
• Own front-end development from start to finish.
• Collaborate to improve our design system by creating new, reusable components and improving the existing ones.
• Drive ongoing design system maintenance efforts, including releasing new versions, documenting breaking changes, and helping teams with upgrades.
• Write and maintain documentation, creating guidance for the entire team.
• Participate in code reviews regularly to share your work and grow your understanding of the code base.
• Participate in design reviews regularly to help drive product decisions in harmony with the design system.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers through collaboration and pair programming.
• Represent the design system on a company-wide level, announce relevant design system news through regular meetings with the entire front-end team, and help field design system needs of other departments.

You…

• Can take initiative, prioritize, manage workloads, and meet project deadlines.
• Are an excellent communicator and collaborator who can clearly articulate ideas and vision.
• Are self-driven and comfortable working in highly collaborative, cross-functional teams.
• Have experience building and managing a Design System.
• Have expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Have 6+ years of experience with React, WCAG compliance, NPM package authorship, Git-based version control, sprint management software like Jira, and design tools like Figma or Sketch. (Bonus points for Storybook, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, or headless CMS.)

Why you’ll love it  here...

• Market competitive pay.
• Rich healthcare benefits and supportive time off policies.
• Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, and family planning.
• A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees. 
• Learning & development and recognition programs.
• “Gives Back” Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.
• Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are vital to our priorities and we continue to evolve our strategy to ensure DEI is embedded in all processes and programs at GoFundMe. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team is always finding new ways for our company to uphold and represent the experiences of all of the people in our organization.
• Employee resource groups.
• Your work has a real purpose and will help change lives on a global scale.
• You’ll be a part of a fun, supportive team that works hard and celebrates accomplishments together. 
• We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose.
• We are a certified Great Place to Work, are growing fast and have incredible opportunities ahead!

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to providing diversity, equity, and inclusion training to all employees, and 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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