Senior Elasticsearch Engineer (Contract)

About us

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both for businesses everywhere. GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris, Melbourne and New York. And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!

The role

This position is a day rate contract role that will last for 3 months, with the possibility of extending to 6 months. You will lead the engineering work that underpins search in our merchant dashboard — the primary interface through which thousands of businesses manage their customers and payments on GoCardless. Search is a critical workflow for our merchants. Whether they’re locating a specific customer, tracking down a payment, or reconciling transactions, they rely on search to get to the right information quickly. You will design and implement a robust, high-quality search solution that meets these needs: relevant, fast, and resilient at scale. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will work closely with our Product Engineering and Platform teams, contributing production-ready code and pairing with engineers throughout the engagement. A key measure of success will be how well-equipped the team is to maintain and evolve the system after you leave.

What you bring

• Deep hands-on experience building and operating Elasticsearch clusters in production environments, and you’re comfortable working across the full stack from cluster configuration through to Query DSL and index design.
• Operational maturity — you design with observability in mind from the outset and know how to monitor cluster health, detect and respond to failures.
• Cloud platform experience — you have worked with managed Elasticsearch deployments on a major cloud provider and understand what changes when moving away from self-managed infrastructure.
• A track record of leaving teams more capable — through documentation, code review, or targeted workshops, you make complex systems understandable to engineers who will maintain them after you move on.
• Strong programming skills in Ruby.

Salary: £600 per day

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.
• Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution.
• 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'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.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCee’s’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds. We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022; Female Employees - 46%, Ethnic background - 32%, Identify as LGBTQIA - 10%, Neurodivergent - 9%.

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.

Sustainability

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world.

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