The role

This role will be working with the Merchant Risk Monitoring team. The team is responsible for our risk monitoring tooling, allowing us to identify fraudulent, or behaviour that is not compliant with our financial regulators rules. The team takes architectural ownership of the constantly evolving risk landscape, delivering best-in-class solutions for internal risk controls.

You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders in Fraud, Compliance and Operations. Your team will contribute to various codebases across the whole product, we are responsible for the integrations with external risk management tools (ThreatMetrix), company registries (Companies House), transaction monitoring, the customer dashboard etc. The team has already demonstrated a significant impact, saving GoCardless numerous hours through productivity enhancements and reducing risk and fraud exposure by millions.

We primarily use: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Postgres, BigQuery and numerous Google Cloud Platform components. 

However, we are open to candidates with experience in other stacks who have a strong motivation to learn and work with ours.

What excites you 

Driving impact - you lead complex projects and initiatives to completion, ensuring your team delivers significant and sustained positive impact on business outcomes. Technical ownership and vision - you enjoy taking technical ownership of systems, setting the long-term vision for your components, and ensuring their operational excellence and scalability. Mentorship and growth - you are passionate about mentoring other engineers, helping them develop their skills through constructive feedback, code reviews, and pairing. Problem-solving at scale - you thrive on architecting robust solutions for complex, ambiguous problems and can clearly articulate the 'why' behind your technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What excites us  

Professional experience in coding and a motivation to use Ruby on Rails for backend and JavaScript/React on frontend, and a commitment to building reliable, well-tested systems. Strategic problem-solving - you break down complicated problems into manageable parts and support the team in delivering solutions. You care about building reliable, well-tested systems. Enthusiasms about working in a strong culture of experimentation, testing and learning - to help us in experimenting ways to grow our product! Collaborative environment - you believe the best products are built through collaboration.

Salary range: €5,333 - €8,000 gross monthly

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.