GoCardless is a global bank payment company—over 100,000 businesses, from start‑ups to household names, rely on us to collect and send payments via direct debit, real‑time payments and open banking.
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Platform Engineering at GoCardless
The Platform Engineering team is a globally distributed team. We are currently located in London, Riga and Lisbon.
Our work is a balance of:
- Project Delivery: Building new platform components, from initial design to deployment.
- Operational Support: Ensuring the health and stability of our systems through on‑call rotations and incident management.
- Business as Usual (BAU): Continuous maintenance, improvements, and support for audits and compliance.
Tech stack and tools
- Python, Ruby, Golang
- Terraform
- Atlantis
- AWS, GCP
- GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
What excites you
We use a wide range of technologies, and we do not expect you to have experience with all of them. We would like to see enthusiasm for the infrastructure space and the impact your work can have on others.
- Building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure.
- Appreciation for building easy‑to‑understand and maintain tools to solve problems.
- Automating operational tasks to eliminate toil using your software development skills.
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
- Working closely with software engineers and data scientists.
- Being involved in the technical design of architecture and making technical decisions.
- Ongoing opportunities to further develop your skills.
- Care about working with people who share the same values and who will continually push you to grow.
What excites us (qualifications)
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, etc.
- Experience with IaC tooling such as Terraform.
- Experience with Terraform automation tools such as Terragrunt or Atlantis is an advantage.
- Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience with containerised applications.
- Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE is an advantage.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.
- Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
- Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation.
- Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.
- Fluency in English.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
Salary range
Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location and market data. We strive to offer competitive compensation and begin at the minimum of the pay range, with increases based on performance, experience and parity within the organisation.
Benefits
- Wellbeing – dedicated support and medical cover.
- Work away scheme – option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12‑month period.
- Adaptive working – flexible working around your lifestyle.
- Equity – all permanent employees receive equity.
- Parental leave – to suit everyone embarking on life’s great adventure.
- Learning budget – annual development budget.
- Time off – generous holiday allowance, 3 annual volunteer days and 4 business‑wide wellness days.
Inclusion & Diversity
We are committed to fostering an inclusive high‑performance culture built on trust and transparency.
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