Engineering Manager (Risk Controls)

Full Time
3 months ago

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  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 85,000+ 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 and Melbourne.

The role

We’re seeking an Engineering Manager to join the Risk Monitoring engineering team in our Riga office. This team focuses on our risk monitoring tooling, allowing us to identify fraudulent and risky behaviour. In effect, this helps to protect GoCardless from hostile and reckless actors.

First and foremost, coding! Our Engineering Managers still contribute to the codebase on a daily basis. While the team mostly works in Ruby we’re comfortable with candidates skilled in similar languages who are willing to learn!

This is an ideal opportunity for a strong technical leader looking to stretch into a more formal management position, collaborating as a dual-lead with the Product Manager, and gaining a lot of exposure to stakeholders across the business in London and Riga.

The team integrates with various risk management tools to empower our Risk Strategy teams to create rules and models that detect patterns of behaviour. We’re looking to further integrate these systems so they can automatically take action to prevent risky activity on our platform.

The team has already demonstrated a significant impact, saving GoCardless significant amounts of money, and reducing risk exposure by millions.

What excites you 

  • You love creating efficient processes that really get to the heart of a problem, and are prepared to think laterally about how to solve it.
  • You love the craft of building systems that can scale, that can last, and can do so through evolution, rather than a big rebuild!
  • You love to work in an autonomous team and take responsibility for your team’s delivery, working with a Product Manager to decide each leap forward.

What excites us  

  • Lots of experience with APIs, and data driven systems
  • Exposure to risk management systems
  • Exposure to Machine Learning, and fraud detection

Salary range - the expected base salary range for this position is between €6,700 - €8,100 (gross).

Base salary ranges may vary and are determined by things like geography, level of experience, interview assessment and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, there is no guarantee that an offer will reach the upper limit of the stated range.

(some of) The good stuff
  • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
  • Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
  • Adaptive Working - Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in-office days determined at team level
  • Equity -all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
  • Parental leave -to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
  • 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 make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. 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. 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 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 ‘GeeCees’ 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 July 2024;

45% identify as women

23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other

10% identify as LGBTQIA+

9% identify as neurodiverse

2% identify as disabled

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report 

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. Check out our sustainability action plan here. 

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