Engineering at GoCardless

The technical challenges of building GoCardless span from simplifying building banking schemes to optimising the time to render the dashboard.

You will enjoy being a software engineer at GoCardless if:

• You’re looking to champion a great engineering culture within GC and in the wider engineering community;
• You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences;
• You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.

Our engineers contribute to the engineering culture within and outside of GoCardless: they contribute to Open Source Software projects (see our Github), and share learnings in post-mortems, conferences and on our blog.

Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Technologies we use across GoCardless include: Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Google Cloud (GCP).

You’re not expected to have expertise in all these technologies. Members of our team have picked up the tools once they’ve started working with the team. If you’re unsure, please apply.

About Payer Proposition

We are a small, mighty and growing team that is responsible for developing GoCardless’ payer proposition, where we want to build and generate value from payer networks.

GoCardless is used by tens of millions of payers each year, but so far we have done little to engage and build a relationship with them. Most still use our services without knowing.

We want GoCardless to become the easiest, and most rewarding way for payers to pay. In turn we want to use the relationship we build with our payers to enhance our service for our merchants. This means you’ll be exploring areas as varied as whether we can improve our paying experience, to whether we should offer rewards and incentives for paying with GoCardless.

This is a greenfield area for GoCardless, and will involve a high level of ambiguity, experimentation and cross-functional collaboration as we go on this journey to make GoCardless the easiest and most preferred way to pay.

What excites you

• You are passionate about building and improving products by experimenting, prototyping, and applying an iterative and data-driven approach to validate ideas and learn.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity. This is a greenfield area for GoCardless and you will be joining us in the early stages of our journey!
• You are excited by the idea of solving problems and building products for our payers.
• You thrive in a cross functional and collaborative environment and believe the best products are built through collaboration.
• You are someone who embodies leadership, personal accountability and ownership, eagerly taking on problems and solving them with creativity and dedication.

What excites us

• You have experience building web products and services, including experience working with front-end technologies (Typescript/JavaScript/React) and you have some experience with Ruby on the back-end.
• You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly.
• You have a customer and product centric mindset, and are excited to deliver features to transform the payer experience.
• You are data-driven and analytical.
• You are enthusiastic about working in a strong culture of rapid experimentation, testing and peer review - in search of building value to payers, merchants and to GC.
• You effectively collaborate with other engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• You are a role model for the team, sharing your knowledge and experience.
• You have a proven track record in mentoring and supporting other engineers.
• You take the lead in pushing projects forward and raising the whole team up.
• You are working at the competencies levels expected of a Senior Engineer.

Please note, this role is initially being offered through an Employer of Record (EOR), our standard benefits package will be available upon transition to direct employment.