Project Manager - Engineering Planning in London

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, 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. 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.

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Engineering at GoCardless

The technical challenges of building GoCardless span from simplifying 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.
• Our engineers contribute to the engineering culture within and outside of GoCardless: they contribute to Open Source Software projects, and share learnings in post-mortems, conferences and on our blog.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join GoCardless in our London office as an Engineering Manager. Lead talented and creative engineers in the Growth Group to build features and experiments to drive customer acquisition, engagement, and retention.

• Push for exceptionally high-quality engineering work whilst moving at a fast pace.
• 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: Raising the technical bar: You insist on high standards of technical design and implementation and ensure your systems are operationally excellent.
• Deliver project work while managing the expectations of your stakeholders.
• Be a reflection of the GC Values that help us work with one another effectively.

Requirements:

• Full-stack engineering background - whilst this role is not hands-on, we are after someone who is familiar with full-stack technologies and practices to lead teams to build reliable, well-tested systems.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams and readiness to take on challenging teams.
• Enthusiasm about working in a strong culture of experimentation, testing and learning to help us in experimenting ways to grow our product.
• Someone excited about supporting and growing a group of engineers, helping them become the best engineers they can be.
• Collaboration and cross-functional work - we have Product Managers and Product Designers as part of our team, and work closely with BI Analysts and Growth Marketers, as well as other commercial teams across the business.
• We’re after people who aren’t afraid of a challenge and will take ownership of problems they come across, help to resolve them and adapt to a constantly changing environment.

Benefits:

• Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.
• Dedicated support and medical cover to keep you healthy.
• Work Away Scheme: Work from anywhere for up to 90 days in any 12-month period.
• Hybrid Working: Our hybrid model offers flexibility, with in-office days determined by your team.
• Parental leave: Annual holiday leave based on your location, supplemented by 3 volunteer days and 4 wellness days.

We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re building the payment network of the future, and to achieve our goal, we need a diverse team with a range of perspectives and experiences. 45% identify as women.