Software Development Engineer III Lisbon, Portugal

GoCardless; Lisboa; Híbrido; EUR 55 000 - 85 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Wellbeing

Learning Budget

Time off

Parental leave

Adaptive Working

Work away scheme

Resumo da oferta

GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. Our Payment Intelligence team builds data products to improve payment success and reduce fraud for merchants.

As an engineer in this role, you will work with a cross-functional team to deliver features for Success+ and Protect+ and help scale our revenue streams.

Qualificações

• Experience building web products and services across the stack.

Responsabilidades

• Augment bank payments product with intelligent data products to differentiate offerings.
• Focus on Success+ and Protect+ products, building market-leading payment recovery and fraud prevention features.
• Lead growth initiatives to increase adoption of Success+ and Protect+, collaborating with data scientists and engineers.

Conhecimentos

Web products

Collaboration

Data-driven

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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.

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 a software engineer 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 .

You’re not expected to have expertise in all these technologies. Members of our team have picked up the tools once they’ve started working with the team.

The Role

Our mission as the Payment Intelligence team is to augment our bank payments product with intelligent data products that differentiate our offering and increase our win rates.

Our focus areas are our existing products, Success+ and Protect+. This means creating market-leading payment recovery rates and fraud prevention products.

Projects in the pipeline that align to these focus areas are:

• Improve payment recovery rates for failed Account to Account payments.
• Enhance the value proposition of our Payment Intelligence products for our merchants.
• Lead growth initiatives to increase the adoption of Success+ and Protect+

As an engineer, you will be actively working on projects that help grow the adoption of these products while improving the experience of using the same and coming up with ideas for new product features in this space. You will be aided and supported in this journey by a cross functional team of super talented and motivated engineers and data scientists

This is a unique and high-profile opportunity for you, as an engineer, to work on building one of GoCardless' major revenue streams in the coming years.

What excites you

• You have a growth mindset, motivated by driving concrete business outcomes.
• You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly.
• Building products that scale. You like solving problems where reliability, performance, and operational excellence matter.
• Raising the technical bar. You care about clean design, maintainable architecture and you push for better ways of working as you learn.
• Shipping meaningful improvements. You enjoy owning work end-to-end, taking ideas from discovery to delivery and seeing your changes make a measurable impact for customers.
• Using data to make better experiences. You’re excited by the potential to improve payments, reduce friction, and unlock smarter payment capabilities.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and believe the best products are built through collaboration.
• You are passionate about building and improving products by experimenting, prototyping and applying an iterative approach to validate ideas and learn.

What excites us

• You have experience building web products and services, and have an awareness of technologies across the stack.
• You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and believe the best products are built through collaboration.
• You care about building reliable, well-tested systems.
• You enjoy solving problems and are happy to take initiative to find better solutions.

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.

The good stuff

• Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• 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’)

Life at GoCardless

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.

Diversity & Inclusion

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:

Asian, Black, Mixed or Other — 25%

LGBTQIA+ — 9%

Disabled — 1%

Average age — 33

Female — 45%

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here

Sustainability

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. Check out our sustainability action plan here.

At GoCardless we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and high-performance culture built on trust and transparency.

To ensure you have a clear understanding of the compensation and potential growth for this opportunity, we’ve shared the full base salary pay range for this role. Please note, our approach is to offer salaries between the minimum and mid-point of the range.

We want to manage expectations from the start, and if your application is successful you can discuss any questions around the pay range and salary with your Talent Partner.