Engineering Manager

Engineering at GoCardless

The technical challenges of building GoCardless span from simplifying building banking schemes to optimising the time to render the dashboard.

You will enjoy being an Engineering Manager at GoCardless if:

• You’re looking to champion a great engineering culture within GC and in the wider engineering community;
• You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences;
• You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.

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.

Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task.

Technologies we use across GoCardless include: Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Google Cloud (GCP).

The role

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join GoCardless in our new Lisbon hub as an Engineering Manager.

As one of the founding employees in a Lisbon hub, you’ll be helping us build creative and fulfilled product engineering teams, technically leading them to become the best engineers they can be.

You will lead talented and creative engineers who build products and systems they are proud of. You will push for exceptionally high-quality work and empower our engineers to make a big impact.

Joining us at this stage means your work will have an impact on the success of our new hub, but also across the wider GoCardless organisation. This is a fantastic chance to be part of something new, innovative and truly aligned with our mission to simplify payments globally.

What excites you

• Shipping stuff: you’ll work with your team to support changes to completion, delivering consistent positive impact across your product area. Being comfortable delivering a range of projects: from MVP experiments testing a hypothesis to a new feature
• Developing talent: You hire and grow engineers into being the best engineers they can be, while maintaining a supportive and engaging team culture
• Raising the technical bar: You insist on high standards of technical design and implementation and ensure your systems are operationally excellent
• Deliver project work while managing the expectations of your stakeholders
• Plan and prioritise impactful technical investment initiatives for your teams
• Be a reflection of the GC Values that help us work with one another effectively

What excites us

• Professional experienced in coding - with Ruby on Rails for backend and JavaScript/React on frontend, and a commitment to building reliable, well-tested systems
• Enthusiastic about working in a strong culture of experimentation, testing and learning - to help us in experimenting ways to grow our product!
• Someone excited about supporting and growing a group of engineers, helping them become the best engineers they can be
• Somebody able to effectively communicate - mainly technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaboration and cross-functional work - we have a Product Manager, Designer and BI Analyst as part of our team and work with a lot of other commercial teams across the business
• High agency: We’re after people who aren’t afraid of a challenge and will take ownership of problems they come across, help to resolve them and adapt to a constantly changing environment

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

Base salary range: €70,400 - €105,600

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.