About this role
About us
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.
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 the Indirect Team
Our mission is to make payments management simple and insightful so partners can focus on growing their businesses.
We own the integrations that bring partners and payment providers onto GoCardless. One partner integration can unlock thousands of merchants, so everything we build has an outsized impact on GoCardless's growth.
Our surface area is broad: the Partner Dashboard, OAuth and Connect, PSP creditor logic, and the Embed product. Engineers here work across the stack, lead on production readiness, and take high ownership of genuinely complex systems.
We are a small team. Everyone ships, everyone is accountable, and the work you do here is directly visible in how GoCardless scales.
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 exp