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Software Development Engineer - Payment Flows

GoCardless
London
6 months ago
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Remember, we don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

About us

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.

GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 85,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We are headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Latvia and the United States.

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 adaptto new technologies and processes quickly.You thrive in a collaborative environmentand believe the best products are built through collaboration.You are passionateabout 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.

(some of) The good stuff

Wellbeing- stay healthy with dedicated support and medical coverWork away scheme-you can apply to workaway from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period (in accordance with our work away policy)Adaptive Working- Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in-office days determined at team levelEquity-all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve togetherParental leave-to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventureTime off- generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
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