Principal Software Development Engineer

About us GoCardless is a global bank payment company. 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. 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 Principal 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 . 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 a new role based in Lisbon, created to strengthen the technical leadership within the Global Growth group. In this role you will: Own the architecture of our dashboard platform and the design system used across the company Bring technical depth to de-risks our highest