Software Development Engineer, GoCardless
Money Tracking
+ Equity
1+ day a week in office
Making payments easier for everyone
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Making payments easier for everyone
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the world’s bank payment network.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- 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 the job involves
- The technical challenges of building GoCardless span from simplifying building banking schemes to optimising the time to render the dashboard
- 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)
- Our mission as the Money Tracking team is to direct and track money reliably and efficiently while enabling growth through flexible fund flows
- In short, our team enables GoCardless to know where the merchant’s and payer’s money is at any one time
- Practically, this means ensuring that as payment volumes grow, we continue to direct funds and track money accurately to ensure we meet our regulatory obligations to safeguard merchant funds
- It also means evolving the way we track money to support the product changes that address more merchant needs and unlock future growth for GoCardless
- Projects in the pipeline that align with these focus areas are:
- Work on the scalability of our core services to ensure they can efficiently support substantial growth in payment volumes as we scale
- Improving our payment processing reliability by rearchitecting our systems to be more resilient to failures
- Evolving our money tracking capabilities to support outbound payments
- As an SDE3, you will actively shape the team's future, 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 to play a defining role in shaping the engineering direction of a critical domain that will underpin GoCardless’ growth in the coming years
Salary benchmarks
Our take
GoCardless has emerged to facilitate recurring payments, with a focus on streamlining the subscription economy. After securing $75M in 2019 for international expansion, the company now operates in key regions, processing over $35B annually for 80,000 businesses.
Recent advancements include the acquisition of Nordigen in 2022, enabling GoCardless to leverage OpenBanking functionality and establish a robust platform for direct bank-to-bank payments. The company also achieved an impressive $312 million in Series G funding in 2022.With a strategic eye on the future, GoCardless introduced GC Embed, a white-labeling product granting other payment providers access to its premier bank payment platform.
This success is underscored by the company's commitment to innovation, exemplified by its 2019 partnership with TransferWise, integrating foreign exchange rates into its services. GoCardless continues to evolve, navigating the complex landscape of recurring payments and staying ahead of competitors like Stripe and Square, who are beginning to enter the subscription economy. With a global footprint spanning the UK, France, the US, and ANZ, GoCardless remains at the forefront of reshaping how businesses manage and process recurring payments on a massive scale.
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45% female employees
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I love that we have an environment of trying new things and if it doesn't work, it's okay, as long as you learn from it. This has enabled me to..."
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2022
$312m
SERIES G
Feb 2021
$105m
SERIES F
Total funding: $634.3m
Company benefits
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental pay
- 27 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work-away scheme
- Health insurance
- 4 additional wellbeing days off per year
- Equity grant for all employees
Company values
- Start With Why: We believe you can only do a job properly when you know why you are doing it. Understanding why we care about the problem motivates us to keep going until we’ve solved it
- Make it Happen: We work with urgency, and take personal accountability for getting things done in pursuit of our vision.
- Care Deeply: We care deeply about our impact on the world and those around us
- Act with Integrity: We do what’s right even when no one is watching. We don't see doing the right things as a choice — we act with integrity regardless of the cost
- Be Humble: We act without ego and don’t let excuses get in the way of achieving our goals. We believe life's too short for self-importance
Company HQ
Clerkenwell, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Hiroki Takeuchi
(CEO)Hiroki and Matt met when they were consultants. They started GoCardless during Y Combinator. After a number of years as co-founder, Matt left to start Nested.
Matt Robinson
(Board Member)Started company supplying waiters to events while at school, before joining McKinsey. Founded Nested Estate Agents in 2015 where they currently serve as CEO.
People progressing
Beccy joined GoCardless as a Sales Development Representative in May 2018 and has since had 3 promotions to become Senior Manager.
Steph joined GoCardless as an Intern in the Compliance team 4 years ago and she's now the Manager of the team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GoCardless
Lena Tailor (Director of D&I)
- Given the large number of hires we have been making in recent months, we have continuously reviewed both our hiring processes and channels to eliminate bias. We’ve introduced programs that attract diverse talent and we continuously seek to create hiring experiences that are fair, transparent and accessible by all
- We are working on creating a transparent framework for how we grow and develop talent in a scaling organisation. This will include bringing more clarity on internal career opportunities and provide clear expectations on the behaviours we want to see aligned to our values and commitment to building an inclusive organisation
- We have introduced systematic processes to help ensure compensation decisions are data-driven, fair and competitive. We have also invested in Reward capability and expertise to ensure we bring pay equity into every step of the employee journey
- Thanks to these employee-led groups we have been able to further our efforts in voluntary diversity data collection this year, to develop support for parents and carers, offer community mentoring opportunities in partnership with Career Accelerator, help to raise awareness and empathy during significant events of the past year, and importantly, offer more employees a community of people with whom they share experiences and interests
- To strengthen our commitment to D&I we have recently appointed our first Director of Diversity & Inclusion, an experienced culture change leader, which will allow us to have a more strategic and systematic approach to building a diverse and inclusive organisation for the long term and as we scale
- The Director will work with the executive team and ERGs to define clear D&I targets that GoCardless will commit to achieving over the next three years, and to develop a structured roadmap of initiatives aligned with those targets
- This will create greater clarity and accountability across the entire organisation on D&I progress
- 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%
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