What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer position at GoCardless?
The role
As a Software Development Engineer at GoCardless, you'll be integral to our Operational Interfaces team working to streamline secure tooling for Merchant Operations.
You'll collaborate closely with Customer Support and other teams to innovate, maintain, and optimise our operational tools, marking a key role in operational efficiency for our merchants and internal users while ensuring robust security 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 Merchant Operations Group, you’ll be working in a team that interacts with a diverse stack of technologies and services including Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Zendesk, and Google Cloud (GCP).
Across GoCardless, we use a broad range of additional technologies and strive to use the correct tool for every job with performance and scalability in mind.
Familiarity with services and technologies such as Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Cassandra, S3, SQL, NoSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes are a plus, however proficiency in every technology 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, collaborating with, and helping 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 secure and robust full stack applications and a deep understanding of technologies across the stack
- You have a keen awareness of performance, scaling and observability
- 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 initiative to find better solutions
- You enjoy mentoring and supporting the development of team members and colleagues
Salary range - the expected base salary range for this position is between €3,200 and €3,520 (gross).
Base salary ranges may vary and are determined by things like geography, level of experience, interview assessment and seniority compared to fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, there is no guarantee that an offer will reach the upper limit of the stated range.