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Engineering Manager

GoCardless
Full Timemanager
London, UKPosted February 18, 2026

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Job Description

About Us at GoCardless

GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking. 

GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.

We are headquartered in the UK with offices in London and Leeds, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.

At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help! 

And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!

Engineering at GoCardless 

The technical challenges of building GoCardless span from simplifying building banking schemes to optimising the time to render the dashboard. 

You will enjoy being an Engineering Manager at GoCardless if:

  • You’re looking to champion a great engineering culture within GC and in the wider engineering community; 
  • You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences; 
  • You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.

Our engineers contribute to the engineering culture within and outside of GoCardless: they contribute to Open Source Software projects (see our Github), and share learnings in post-mortems, conferences and on our blog.

Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task.

Technologies we use across GoCardless include: Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Google Cloud (GCP).

 

The role

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join GoCardless in our London office as an Engineering Manager. In this role you will:

  • Lead talented and creative engineers in the Growth Group to build features and experiments to drive customer acquisition, engagement, and retention
  • Work closely with Product Managers and Product Designers to translate growth goals into actionable technical roadmaps
  • Partner with Growth Marketing to define and execute growth initiatives
  • Push for exceptionally high-quality engineering work whilst moving at a fast pace

 

What excites you 

  • Shipping stuff: you’ll work with your team to support changes to completion, delivering consistent positive impact across Product Growth. Being comfortable delivering a range of projects: from MVP experiments testing a hypothesis to a new feature
  • Developing talent: You hire and grow engineers into being the best engineers they can be, while maintaining a supportive, engaging, and inclusive team culture
  • Raising the technical bar: You insist on high standards of technical design and implementation and ensure your systems are operationally

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