What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Development Engineer - Open Banking Features position at GoCardless?
The role
Our mission as the Open Banking Features team in GoCardless is to develop and maintain our Connectivity with banks across UK and European markets. We power Account Information and Payment Initiation services across more than 2500 banks.
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.
As a senior engineer, 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.
Our technologies
We endeavour to build simple, reliable, and secure tooling and believe in using the most suitable technologies for each task. Joining the Connectivity group, you’ll be working in a team that interacts with a diverse stack of technologies and services including Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud (GCP), Kibana, Prometheus.
Across GoCardless, we use a broad range of additional technologies such as Ruby, React, Kubernetes and Elasticsearch.
Proficiency in all of these technologies is not a prerequisite. If you’re unsure, please apply.
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.
What excites us
- You are an expert in Python and have a good grasp of SQL.
- You have a strong background in designing, implementing, and maintaining distributed systems that are scalable, reliable, and efficient.
- You are effective at debugging and diagnosing problems using a range of tools.
- You want to solve problems in a critical domain that underpins GoCardless’ 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’ve a proven track record in playing a significant role in the career development of engineers by mentoring engineers junior to your level.
- You take the lead in pushing projects forward and raising the whole team up.
Salary range - the expected base salary range for this position is between €5,333 - €8,000 (gross).
Base salary ranges may vary and are determined by things like geography, level of experience, interview assessment and parity between you and 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.
Salary : $5,333 - $8,000
