Manager, Software Engineering (Communications Platform)

$210,000 - $280,000/Yr

Gofundme - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Manager

Remote - San Francisco, CA

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

GoFundMe is seeking a highly motivated Engineering Manager to lead the Communications Platform engineering team. This role focuses on building and scaling mission-critical communication solutions, including emails, push notifications, SMS, and user-to-user chats. The Engineering Manager will play a crucial role in enhancing user engagement and ensuring the delivery of robust communication solutions that align with GoFundMe's core business objectives. This position offers the opportunity to directly impact GoFundMe's mission and products while leading a diverse, globally distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Attract, hire, and retain a high-performing engineering team based in the U.S. and Buenos Aires.
• Drive the implementation of user-to-user chats and group chat functionalities as part of GoFundMe's marketplace strategy.
• Partner with engineering, product, designers, and external partners to deliver robust communication solutions.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture, ensuring continuous learning and career growth for all team members.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading small to mid-sized teams.
• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams, ideally within a communications or messaging platform domain.
• Strong expertise in systems architecture to lead and guide teams in designing scalable, high-performance systems.
• Skilled at leading projects from conception to completion, ensuring timely delivery by balancing technical trade-offs and business needs.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with NextJS, Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• Market competitive pay.
• Rich healthcare benefits including employer paid premiums for medical/dental/vision (100% for employee-only plans and 85% for employee + dependent plans) and employer HSA contributions.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Hybrid workplace with remote flexibility for many roles.
• Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, family planning, and commuting expenses.
• A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees.
• Generous paid parental leave and family planning stipend.
• Company provided life and disability coverages.
• Supportive time off policies including vacation, sick/mental health days, volunteer days, company holidays, and a floating holiday.
• Learning & development and recognition programs.
• “Gives Back” Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.