Software Development Engineer - Data Platform

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 Data Platform

Our team’s mission is to “Drive increased data dependability and cost-efficiency by providing a best-in-class data platform so everyone can autonomously build data-driven applications that drive increased operational and revenue efficiency.”.

In pursuit of our mission, The team is driven by 3 strategic pillars:

• FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimisation: We will continue to take direction action to ensure we deliver a cost efficient platform and empower teams to be financially responsible
• Data Governance: We are responsible for building tooling to enable effective data stewardship.
• Data Dependability: We are responsible for building a platform that ensures that the data is available and fit for purpose, by providing tooling that measures and enforces data quality and platform reliability

We are a diverse team, with diverse technology backgrounds ranging from Software Engineer to ML Ops and Site Reliability.

We’re a team with a vision to unlock the full potential of data-driven decision-making, and expect every engineer to be driven by this, and take ownership of the journey towards this vision.

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.
• You are passionate about driving value in the data ecosystem.

What excites us

• You have experience working with data platforms and an understanding of the data lifecycle
• 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 the initiative to find better solutions.