Software Development Engineer III - Payer Proposition

GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect, manage and send bank payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking. With US$130bn+ processed annually across 30+ countries, we handle recurring and one-off payments without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees. Our end-to-end payment platform also features AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, alongside connections to over 350 platforms businesses use everyday.

We are headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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:  JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, 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.

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. 

• 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.

• 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.