What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Development Engineer position at GoCardless?
The role
As a Software Development Engineer at GoCardless, you'll be integral to our Bank Account Data team working to streamline experience for our customers.
You'll collaborate closely with product and other teams to innovate, maintain, and optimise our product, marking a key role in operational efficiency for our merchants and internal users while ensuring smooth operation for the world's aspiring bank payments network.
Our technologies
We endeavour to build simple, reliable, and secure tooling and believe in using the most suitable technologies for each task. Joining the Bank Account Data group, you’ll be working in a team that interacts with a diverse stack of technologies and services including Python, Django, JavaScript, Google Cloud (GCP).
Across GoCardless, we use a broad range of additional technologies such as React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Prometheus.
Proficiency in all of these technologies is not a prerequisite. If you’re unsure, please apply.
What excites you
- You’re looking to foster an exceptional engineering culture within GoCardless and contribute to the larger engineering community
- You enjoy gaining insights and collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences
- You take pride in your work and the difference it can make
- 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.
What excites us
- Professional experience of building web applications and a keen awareness of technologies across the stack
- Understanding of backend technologies: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, REST API
- You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly
- You thrive in a collaborative environment and believe the best products are built through collaboration
- You enjoy solving problems and are happy to take the initiative to find better solutions
- You enjoy mentoring and supporting the development of team members and colleagues
- Nice to have frontend foundations: ES6 , CSS (e.g. grid, flexbox, custom properties), event delegation, custom elements, web components, etc.
Salary: 5,600 - 7,590 eur/gross