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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 Flows
Our mission as the Payment Flows team is to help GoCardless win more merchants in our strategic segments by improving the speed, visibility, and flexibility of our payment processing. What that means is we’re aiming to offer the best in class Direct Debit payment timings.
Our focus areas are payment speed, flexibility and usability. Practically this means creating market-leading payment timings to improve our product market fit to unlock new & cross-sell revenue as well as improving the flexibility of our payment processing to solve for use cases, increase our share-of-wallet, and win more merchants.
Projects in the pipeline that align to these focus areas are:
- Implementing market-leading payment timings to improve product market fit and unlock new & cross-sell revenue.
- Improving our payment processing reliability by rearchitecting our systems to be more resilient to failures (e.g. running multiple payout pipeline runs per day).
- Scaling out the international expansion of our same day settlement product.
- Investing time into developing a machine learning driven confirmation product for faster and stronger confirmation signals to merchants.
- Building out the first centralised bank account data store for GoCardless that will be leveraged by engineering teams across the business and to help drive strategic projects.
- 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 an 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 can build scalable, complex web based applications
- 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.
- 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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What We Do
GoCardless is on a mission to take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue.
We’ve created a global bank debit network, to rival credit and debit cards. On top of it, we’ve built a platform designed and optimised for taking invoice, subscription, membership and instalment payments.
We now process $13bn in transactions a year and we’re proud to count 50,000 businesses around the world as our customers, from small businesses to household names like TripAdvisor and the Guardian.
Our recurring payments platform integrates with the applications businesses use every day, giving businesses more visibility over payments and saving them huge amounts of time on tasks like payment reconciliation. We partner with more than 150 billing and subscription software partners globally, including Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Zuora and Salesforce.
GoCardless has offices in London, Paris, Munich, Melbourne and San Francisco. We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors including Adams Street Partners, Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Notion Capital, Passion Capital, Salesforce Ventures Y Combinator.
