Site Reliability Engineer, GoCardless
£70-80k
+ Equity
1+ day a week in office
Making payments easier for everyone
Open for applications
Making payments easier for everyone
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£70-80k
+ Equity
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the world’s bank payment network.
Role
Who you are
- If you enjoy hard challenges, value learning and want to create an impact, then this is a place for you
- We do hope that you are enthusiastic about the infrastructure space and the impact your work can have on others
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang etc.
- Experience with IaC tooling, such as Terraform
- Previous experience with Terraform automation toolings such as Terragrunt or Atlantis will be considered an advantage
- Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP
- Experience with containerized applications
- Previous experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE will be considered an advantage
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.
- Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix etc.
- Previous experience with centralised log management through Elastic tooling will be considered an advantage
- Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation
- Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles
- Fluency in English
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills
What the job involves
- Foundations group is searching for an engineer with a strong interest in infrastructure management and the site reliability engineering problem space
- . You will be a member of a distributed team working with all other engineering teams - from product to data - to help build and scale the global platform our payments and open banking products sit on
- Tech stack and tools
- Python, Ruby, Golang
- Terraform
- Terragrunt, Atlantis
- AWS, GCP
- Kubernetes, GKE
- Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
- Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix
- Elastic
- Building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure
- Appreciate and believe in building easy-to-understand and maintain tools to solve problems
- Automating operational tasks to eliminate toil using your software development skills and experience
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Working closely with software engineers and data scientists
- Being involved in the technical design of architecture and making technical decisions
- Cloud-first engineering
- Ongoing opportunities to further develop your skills
- Care about working with people who share the same values as you and who will continually push you to grow
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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