The Role

As an Engineering Manager at GoCardless, 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.

You will have responsibility for one or more teams of between five to eight software engineers and you’ll work closely with commercial and operational stakeholders.

What Excites You

Building high performing teams: You hire and grow engineers into being the best they can be while maintaining a supportive and engaging team culture. Delivery: You’ll work with your team to deliver a consistent, positive impact across your product area. You'll be comfortable delivering a range of projects, from MVP experiments testing a hypothesis to a new feature. The latest technologies: You’re excited about the opportunities AI presents and how to incorporate it seamlessly into the product. Experimentation and data-driven decision-making: You’ll use data to back up and inform your thinking. Raising the technical bar: You'll drive high standards for technical design and implementation, ensuring our systems are robust, operationally excellent, and deliver an outstanding user experience for our merchants. Living our values: You'll embody our company's values, helping us work with one another effectively and with respect.

What Excites Us

High performance: experience building and running highly engaged and motivated teams that deliver on their commitments. Professional experience in coding: Full-stack or Backend experience with a commitment to building reliable, well-tested systems. You know what good is and can inspire a team to achieve excellence. Effective communication: Experience explaining technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaboration and cross-functional work: We have a Product Manager and a Designer as part of our team. In addition, we work with our Business Intelligence (BI) team and many 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 encounter, 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.

Salary range: £ 100,000 - £ 150,000 (gross)

Base salary range: 

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.