This role is ideal for a seasoned engineering leader with at least 8 years of software experience and a deep background in e-commerce or fintech. You should be
Work type: hybrid
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $204,000 – $306,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is ideal for a seasoned engineering leader with at least 8 years of software experience and a deep background in e-commerce or fintech. You should be a "player-coach" who thrives on the intersection of technical architecture and product growth, specifically within high-stakes environments like payment processing and conversion optimization. The compensation is highly competitive, reaching up to $306k base plus equity. While the role requires a hybrid presence in San Francisco (3 days/week), it offers the chance to lead a mission-driven team at a massive scale—overseeing a donation funnel that has processed $40 billion. You’ll have significant influence over the technical roadmap and a culture that prioritizes A/B testing and experimentation. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have led cross-functional teams in a "growth" or "checkout" capacity for at least 3 years. * Possess deep knowledge of PCI compliance, payment gateways, and fraud prevention. * Are comfortable diving into React/TypeScript code while also managing senior-level stakeholders. * Enjoy using data and instrumentation to shave milliseconds off page load times and boost conversion rates.
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 Software Engineer Manager (Checkout), GoFundMe Pro.
The Checkout team is at the heart of how donors give. The team owns the end-to-end donation funnel from landing pages to the payment and confirmation. The team’s mission is to maximize conversion, minimize friction, and deliver a high-performance, reliable, secure, and delightful checkout experience.
This team is cross-functional and highly collaborative, partnering closely with Product, Design, Analytics, Payments, Risk, and Platform teams to continuously improve the donor experience while maintaining world-class reliability and performance.
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building and scaling a high-performing team that optimizes conversion, performance, and reliability across all donation checkout flows.
You’ll influence the technical roadmap, champion experimentation and A/B testing frameworks, and ensure that our payment integrations, fraud/risk safeguards, and user flows are seamless and trustworthy. As a hands-on, player-coach manager, you will drive technical excellence, mentor engineers, and shape a culture that values experimentation, autonomy, performance, and end-to-end ownership.
This is a hybrid role that requires 3 days per week at the office, and we are therefore only able to consider candidates who are located or willing to relocate to San Francisco, CA.The Job
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.
The annual U.S. salary range for this full-time position is $204,000 - $306,000. The company also offers equity and other benefits to employees, including healthcare, dental, vision, life insurance and 401(k) saving program. In addition to this wage, there are geolocation differentials that will increase pay depending on the work location. Additionally pay may vary depending on other factors including skills, experience, education, or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific total compensation packagebased on your location during the hiring process.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact us at [accommodationrequests@gofundme.com](mailto:accommodationrequests@gofundme.com).
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Learn more about GoFundMe:
We’re proud to partner with [GoFundMe.org](https://www.gofundme.org/), an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change. You can learn more about GoFundMe.org’s activities and impact in their [FY ‘24 annual report](https://www.gofundme.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GoFundMe.org-FY24-Annual-Report.pdf).
Our[ annual “Year in Help” report ](https://www.gofundme.com/c/gofundme-2024-year-in-help)reflects our community’s impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other.
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