Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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 ed together with Classy, a leading nonprofit fundraising software company that enables nonprofits to connect ers 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.

us! We are looking for our first engineering leader in Argentina to GoFundMe’s Incubation team and help bring groundbreaking 0→1 products to life. In this role, you’ll set the technical vision and build the foundation for innovations that will define our future—leading the development of Partnership APIs that connect GoFundMe to the platforms and channels where our donors engage, and standing up a new team tasked with architecting and delivering a first-of-its-kind marketing technology.

In this position, you’ll recruit, mentor, and grow a local engineering team to design and build reliable, scalable systems from initial concept through MVP launch, partnering closely with Product, Design, and Data to validate ideas quickly. us if you’re ionate about personal and professional growth and eager to make a direct impact on GoFundMe’s products and the people who rely on them.

This is a hybrid position; candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires.

The Job…

• Build & lead your team. Recruit, hire, and mentor engineers in Argentina, establishing scalable practices for code quality, testing, and delivery.
• Shape product strategy. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate early-stage research into technical roaps and prototypes.
• Architect from scratch. Guide your engineers in deg modular, maintainable, and scalable systems using GoFundMe’s cloud-native and GraphQL-first approach.
• Drive execution. Own sprint planning, resource allocation, and risk management to deliver MVPs on time, balancing innovation with reliability.
• Institute best practices. Champion CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and strong security postures from day one.
  
  

You…

• Leadership experience. 5+ years managing engineering teams, ideally leading initial hires and building teams from zero.
• Hands-on technologist. 8+ years building scalable systems, with a track record of architecting and shipping new products.
• Strategic mindset. Comfort with ambiguity—able to scope broadly, make technical trade-offs, and pivot based on .
• Cross-functional collaborator. Skilled at communicating technical plans to non-technical stakeholders and aligning diverse teams.
• Startup spirit. You thrive in fast-moving environments, relish solving novel problems, and take pride in turning rough ideas into lasting solutions.
  
  

Preferred…

• Familiarity with Spring Boot, Kotlin, GraphQL, AWS, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Prior success scaling engineering teams in LATAM markets.
  
  

Why you’ll love it here...

• Ground-floor opportunity: You'll be the first engineering manager in Argentina, shaping team culture, processes, and the way we invent new products.
• End-to-end ownership:from initial discovery through MVP and beyond, you'll guide your team as they turn nascent ideas into production-ready systems.
• Be a part of a mission-driven organization that positively impacts tens of millions of lives every year.
• Be a Leader in a high-impact product organization and drive business transformation through product.
• Collaborate with a diverse, ionate, and talented team in a fast-paced and innovative environment.
• You’ll be a part of a fun, ive 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.
  
  

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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Dedication to Diversity

GoFundMe and Classy are committed to leveraging Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging to cultivate a culture that embraces and s the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of our people and customers.

Our diversity recruiting priority is recognized under our first DEIB Driver: Opportunity Foster Diversity - we identify, recruit, and invest in top talent- ensure our people reflect the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of the communities we serve and are all given the chance to grow.

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Learn More About GoFundMe

We’re proud to partner with 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.

Our annual “Year in Help” report reflects our community’s impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other.

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