Solution Engineer II

GoCardless Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work away scheme

Adaptive Working

Parental leave

Learning Budget

Time off

Job summary

GoCardless Ltd. is seeking a Solution Engineer to lead technical engagements with merchants and provide guidance on architecture, integrations, and opportunities. You will work with sales to qualify, shape, close and support opportunities, delivering compelling technical perspectives and demos.

You will collaborate with product, implementation, and customer success teams to ensure smooth journeys for clients and scalable solutions. Strong API, Postman, and debugging tool skills are required.

Qualifications

• Experience as a pre-sales or post-sales solution engineer.
• Ability to articulate complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of API integrations and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical engagements with merchants alongside sales teams.
• Present and craft demos showcasing the product.
• Perform technical discovery and architect solution designs for prospects.
• Collaborate with product, implementation, and customer success teams.

Skills

Solution engineering

Demos & presentations

Technical discovery

API integrations

Pre/post-sales support

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Postman

API debugging

Logging tools

Job description

You will be joining our Solution Engineering team and will be the primary technical lead during engagements with our prospective and existing merchants. You will help qualify, shape, close and support new and existing business opportunities. You will provide technical guidance and oversight on our most exciting opportunities whilst working alongside our sales teams. Your day-to-day will focus on:

• Working with our sales team on new and existing opportunities
• Presenting and crafting demos showcasing our product
• Performing technical discovery and architecting solution designs for prospects
• Work closely with our product team on product improvements, new initiatives and feature requests
• Work alongside implementation managers and customer success teams to ensure a smooth journey for clients
  You are a problem solver at heart
• You have a love for learning and are curious by nature
• You are consultative and love to get stuck into the detail
• You have a growth mindset and are open to new lines of thought
• You love to help clients accelerate their growth and build innovative experiences, Experience as a pre-sales or post-sales solution engineer
• Ability to articulate complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work with API tools such as Postman and debugging/logging tools
• Experience in building integrations with Payment-Service Providers
• A deep understanding of how APIs function
• Programming skills in at least one common programming language
• A compelling storyteller
  GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect, manage and send bank payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking. With US$130bn+ processed annually across 30+ countries, we handle recurring and one-off payments without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees. Our end-to-end payment platform also features AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, alongside connections to over 350 platforms businesses use everyday.

We are headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit www.gocardless.com and follow us on LinkedIn @GoCardless. Mollie is the leading payments and financial services partner for business, rooted in Europe, with global reach., We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it's aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work., As of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices. To ensure that we're representative of the world around us - and to be able to review relevant benchmarks - we ask GeeCees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of GeeCees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see GeeCees identifying as

Base salary range: £48,800 - £73,200 + 30% OTE. 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.

• Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
• Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
• Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days ('GC Fridays')