Senior Manager of Software Engineering (Integrity)

GoFundMe as a Senior Manager of Software Engineering, where you'll lead the team behind GoFundMe Pro's campaign-creation experience. In this hands-on leadership role, you'll manage a team of engineers, own engineering delivery for the campaign-creation experience, and champion an outcomes-over-output culture.

This position requires a strong background in software engineering, experience leading and growing teams, and a passion for mentoring engineers and building inclusive teams.

A passion for mentoring engineers, building inclusive teams, and leading as a coach and servant to the team

Responsibilities

• You'll also participate in architecture and design reviews, technical decisions, code review, and incident response.
• Lead and manage a team of engineers to develop and enhance the campaign-creation experience for GoFundMe Pro.
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to define project scope, objectives, and success metrics, ensuring alignment with user needs.
• Champion a culture of experimentation and data-driven decision-making, driving improvements in key metrics related to campaign creation.
• A product-minded, outcomes-first approach: you frame work around user problems and measurable behavior change rather than feature lists, and you partner naturally with Product and Design
• A track record of shipping iteratively with a bias to action, balancing speed and quality on a revenue-generating product surface
• Strong background building complex, customer-facing web applications, with deep expertise in TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks such as React, and comfort operating across the full stack
• Experience delivering in a data-driven, experimentation-heavy environment, including A/B testing, funnel and conversion optimization, and analytics instrumentation
• Strong sense of web craft: performance, accessibility, reliability, and design system driven UI

Requirements

Campaign Creation Experience

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead a distributed team across time zones
• Experience leading and growing software engineering teams as a people manager including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development, backed by a strong hands-on engineering background
• Experience building rich, interactive builder or editor experiences (drag-and-drop, WYSIWYG, templating, live preview)

Preferred

Experience with design systems and shared component libraries

• Experience integrating AI/LLM-powered features into products, such as content generation or intelligent suggestions
• Familiarity with product analytics and session tooling such as Heap, FullStory, Amplitude, or Looker

Experience owning a customer-facing checkout or conversion funnel

• Experience in B2B SaaS, nonprofit technology, fintech, or e-commerce/checkout conversion
• Demonstrated experience driving AI-assisted development adoption and best practices across teams
• Familiarity with AWS and modern CI/CD practices

Pay

USD 243,000 - 364,000