GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking.
GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.
We are headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia and the United States.
At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help!
And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!
About Payment Flows
Our mission as the Payment Flows team is to help GoCardless win more merchants in our strategic segments by improving the speed, visibility, and flexibility of our payment processing. What that means is we’re aiming to offer the best in class Direct Debit payment timings.
Our focus areas are payment speed, flexibility and usability. Practically this means creating market-leading payment timings to improve our product market fit to unlock new & cross-sell revenue as well as improving the flexibility of our payment processing to solve for use cases, increase our share-of-wallet, and win more merchants.
Projects in the pipeline that align to these focus areas are:
- Implementing market-leading payment timings to improve product market fit and unlock new & cross-sell revenue.
- Improving our payment processing reliability by rearchitecting our systems to be more resilient to failures (e.g. running multiple payout pipeline runs per day).
- Scaling out the international expansion of our same day settlement product.
- Investing time into developing a machine learning driven confirmation product for faster and stronger confirmation signals to merchants.
- Building out the first centralised bank account data store for GoCardless that will be leveraged by engineering teams across the business and to help drive strategic projects.
- You will actively shape the future of the team, aiming to build a robust, high-quality product. You'll be involved in planning and executing the technical vision, which includes working on some of these key initiatives.
- This is a unique and high-profile opportunity for you, as an engineer, to play a defining role in shaping the engineering direction of one of GoCardless' revenue streams in the coming years.
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 can build scalable, complex web based applications
- You want to solve problems that will drive revenue growth and will have an impact on the engineering technical vision.
- You effectively collaborate with other engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- You're a role model for the team, sharing your knowledge and experience.
- You take the lead in pushing projects forward and raising the whole team up.
Salary range: £78,400 - £117,600
Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.
- Wellbeing: Dedicated support and medical cover to keep you healthy.
- Work Away Scheme: Work from anywhere for up to 90 days in any 12-month period.
- Adaptive Working: Our hybrid model offers flexibility, with in-office days determined by your team.
- Equity: All permanently employed GeeCees get equity to share in our success.
- Parental leave: Tailored leave to support your life's great adventure.
- Time Off: Generous holidays, 3 volunteer days, and 4 wellness days annually.
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 make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. 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. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re building the payment network of the future, and to achieve our goal, we need a diverse team with a range of perspectives and experiences. As of July 2024, here’s where we stand:
- 45% identify as women
- 23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed, or Other
- 10% identify as LGBTQIA+
- 9% identify as neurodiverse
- 2% identify as disabled
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
Sustainability at GoCardless
We’re committed to reducing our environmental impact and leaving a sustainable world for future generations. As co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, we’re working towards a climate-positive future. Check out our sustainability action plan here.
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GoCardless London, England Office
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