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. 

What excites you 

Shipping stuff - you’ll work with your team to support changes to completion, delivering consistent positive impact across your product area.  Growth mindset - motivated by driving concrete business outcomes. Raising the technical bar - you insist on high standards of technical design and implementation and ensure your systems are operationally excellent. You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly. Building for scale and autonomy - using modern technology and tooling. Collaborative environment - you believe the best products are built through collaboration.

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. Enthusiasms about working in a strong culture of experimentation, testing and learning - to help us in experimenting ways to grow our product! You care about building reliable, well-tested systems. You enjoy solving problems and are happy to take initiative to find better solutions.

Salary range: €2,933 - €4,400 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.