GoCardless is hiring an

Engineering Manager

Riga, Latvia

About us

Here at GoCardless, we’re building the world’s bank payment network. Bringing simple and secure direct bank payment solutions for people and businesses everywhere, as well as making open banking more accessible. GoCardless is used by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion of payments across 30 countries. 

We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris, Melbourne and New York.

Intro to Engineering Management

As an Engineering Manager at GoCardless, you’ll be helping us build creative and fulfilled product engineering teams. 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. We have a variety of technical challenges here at GC, and can range from anything and everything from building a reliable and scalable network capable of processing $30bn+ per year, creating and improving the core product used by 70,000 businesses or establishing a platform function that allows the rest of the engineering org. to work fast and scale effectively.

The Role

We’re looking for a technical leader with a software engineering background. In this role you will:

  • First and foremost - code! Our Engineering Managers still contribute to the codebase on a daily basis.
  • Be a Subject Matter Expert for the area you manage.
  • Hire and grow engineers into being the best engineers they can be
  • Maintain a supportive and engaging team culture
  • 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

You will also be a key contributor to:

  • Improve hiring and recruitment processes
  • Ensure the security of our systems and working practices
  • Contribute to the evolution of the organisation’s working practices

Desired Skills

Given the versatile nature of the role, we’re looking for someone who learns fast, enjoys collaborating with others, and is a pragmatic . This role would suit someone with previous Leadership experience or a Senior Engineer looking to take the step into a more formal Leadership position.

We'd love to hear from you if you are:

  • Professionally experienced in coding with Ruby and/or Python
  • Committed to building reliable, well-tested systems
  • Enthusiastic about working in a strong culture of testing and code review
  • Someone who is energised about supporting and growing a group of engineers, helping them become the best engineers they can be
  • Able to effectively communicate technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experienced in collaborating with Product Managers and other functions to deliver successful software products

Salary Range: between €6,720 and €8,140 per month (Gross)

(some of) The good stuff

  • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
  • Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period.
  • Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
  • Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution 
  • Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
  • Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget 
  • 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 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. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work. 

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 ‘GeeCee’s’ 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 June 2022;

Female Employees - 46%

Ethnic background - 32%

Identify as LGBTQIA - 10%

Neurodivergent - 9%

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

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. 

Find out more about Life at GoCardless via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn

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