Senior Software Development Engineer – Payment Providers

About us

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.

GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris and Melbourne.

The role

Our team’s purpose is to grow GoCardless’ revenue by embedding bank payments into other payment platforms. To do this we are building new products upon GoCardless’ platform while giving our customers the best integration experience possible.

We are looking for engineers who:

• Enjoy moving quickly with a strong bias for action
• Enjoy a rapid ideation -> implementation -> iteration cycle
• Are excited to work closely with customers’ product engineering teams and are passionate about
• understanding and solving real needs
• Have experience with building integrations and a passion to create world class experiences for our customers
• Want to have a direct impact on a company’s revenue and growth
• Have comfort with doing what needs to be done to solve a problem which may include working across the whole tech stack and product suite
• Are able to prioritise and is adaptable to change
• The team pride themselves on being a small, focused unit with collaboration and open communication at the heart of it.

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, Postgres, BigQuery, GCP

What excites you

• You have a growth mindset, motivated by driving concrete business outcomes.
• You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and believe the best products are built through collaboration.
• You are passionate about building and improving products by experimenting, prototyping and applying an iterative approach to validate ideas and learn.

What excites us

• You have experience building web products and services, and have an awareness of technologies across the stack.
• You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and believe the best products are built through collaboration.
• You care about building reliable, well-tested systems.
• You enjoy solving problems and are happy to take initiative to find better solutions.

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

(some of) The good stuff

• Wellbeing – stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme – you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
• Adaptive Working – allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Equity – all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
• Parental leave – to suit everyone embarking on life’s great adventure
• Time off – generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)

Life at GoCardless

We’re an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it’s essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.

Sustainability

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here.

Find out more about Life at GoCardless via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Diversity & Inclusivity:

Diversity & Inclusion
We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCee’s’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.

We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022;

Female Employees - 46%

Ethnic background - 32%

Identify as LGBTQIA - 10%

Neurodivergent - 9%

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report