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 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We're an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris and Melbourne.

You will lead the architecture, design and implementation of large and very complex systems, being hands-on as required. Your designs and architectures are high quality in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, simplicity and cost-effectiveness.

You will mentor and support others and help them progress from a career perspective.

You will be frequently consulted as an expert in hard technical challenges involving architecture, scalability, system-wide performance and engineering best practice.

You will continuously bring business context to key engineering decisions and help make the right trade-offs between the business requirements and the technical design considerations.

We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Across GoCardless, our other technologies include: Python, Golang, React, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Google Cloud (GCP).

Proficiency in all of these technologies is not a prerequisite. If you're unsure, please apply.

Salary Range: €6720 - €8140 monthly (Gross), performance bonuses, and stock options

We don't expect you to meet every requirement. If you're excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure its aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic - the reason we all love showing up to work.

We're building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we're going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of GeeCees that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.

We've got a long way to go, but heres how were doing as of June 2023:

We're rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives as well as our latest D&I Report on our website.

We're committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan on our website.

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