Full-Stack Software Development Engineer (Python, Ruby)

The role

We’re looking for engineers to join our growing team, where you’ll work on powering reliable payments and unlocking smarter payment experiences.

A key focus of this role is improving our Payments products by leveraging Open Banking Account Information Services (AIS). You’ll help enhance existing products while exploring new opportunities that can be a step-change in customer outcomes and user experience.

We endeavour to build simple, reliable and performant systems, and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Joining the team, you’ll primarily work with: Python, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, ReactJS,, BigQuery, Prometheus, Google Cloud..

Proficiency in all of these technologies is not a prerequisite. If you’re unsure, please apply.

What excites you

• 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.
• Building products that scale. You like solving problems where reliability, performance, and operational excellence matter.
• Using data to make better experiences. You’re excited by the potential to improve payments, reduce friction, and unlock smarter payment capabilities.
• Raising the technical bar. You care about clean design, maintainable architecture and you push for better ways of working as you learn.
• Working collaboratively. You thrive in teams that solve problems together, learn from each other, and make pragmatic decisions with shared ownership.

What excites us

• You can build and maintain Python and/or Ruby on Rails applications in production. You’re comfortable working across the stack and supporting services end-to-end.
• You can build modern frontend applications using JavaScript (ReactJS). You care about performance, usability, and writing clean, maintainable UI components.
• Understanding of backend technologies. You’re comfortable with Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and designing/consuming REST APIs.
• Frontend foundations. You’re comfortable with JavaScript fundamentals (ES6 ), CSS (e.g. grid, flexbox, custom properties), and modern browser patterns (e.g. event delegation); familiarity with web components is a plus.
• You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly. You can ramp up fast, work through ambiguity, and keep shipping impact.
• You enjoy solving problems and take initiative to find better solutions. You take ownership, dig into root causes, and improve systems over time.
• You enjoy solving problems. You are happy to take initiative to find better solutions.

Base salary range: 4000-6000 EUR gross monthly

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.