Software Development Engineer - Data Services

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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 Intelligence

Our mission as the Payment Intelligence team is to augment our bank payments product with value-added data services that differentiate our offering and increase our win rates.

Our focus areas are our existing data driven products, Success+ and Protect+. This means creating market-leading payment recovery rates and fraud prevention products.

 Projects in the pipeline that align to these focus areas are:

• Improve payment recovery rates for failed Account to Account payments.
• Improve fraud detection rates of our ML models and rules based systems
• Improve the consumer authentication flow experiences for high risk payments.
• Deliver payment intelligence to power Same Day Settlement products for our core segments.

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. 

This is a unique and high-profile opportunity for you, as a senior 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 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 have strong Python and data skills, and ideally some level of experience with Ruby
• 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.

Salary range - the expected base salary range for this position is between €4,000 and €7,000 (gross) depending on leveling in interviews. 

(some of) The good stuff

• Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme - you can apply to work away 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 level
• Equity - all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
• Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)

Life at GoCardless  

We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. 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. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 here’s how we’re doing as of July 2024;

45% identify as women

23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other

10% identify as LGBTQIA+

9% identify as neurodiverse

2% identify as disabled

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

Sustainability 

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 here. 

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