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How GoCardless hires

Truth index
B 79/100
Median time to fill
37 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
83%
Reposted roles
0%

GoCardless scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 83% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 37 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

GoCardless is a bank payment company headquartered in London that lets businesses collect and send payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking instead of cards. Founded in 2011, it serves more than 100,000 businesses, processes over 130 billion US dollars a year across more than 30 countries, connects to over 350 business software platforms and has offices in Australia, France, Latvia, Portugal and the United States. It hires software and site reliability engineers, data scientists and analysts, product managers, fraud and KYC specialists, customer success and account managers, and sales and procurement staff, largely in Lisbon, Riga and Leeds.

News

News NL Times 10 months ago
Dutch firm Mollie buys UK direct debit specialist GoCardless for €1.1 billion
Mollie, the Dutch payments company, is buying the UK-based GoCardless for 1.1 billion euros. The deal, involving both cash and shares, will create a fintech firm serving approximately 350,000 business clients.Mollie became successful by providing a platfo
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News CNBC 3 years ago
Alphabet-backed GoCardless considers takeovers as CEO expects a barrage of consolidation
GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi said that his firm was "very open minded" about the prospect of mergers and acquisitions.
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News CNBC 3 years ago
Alphabet-backed U.K. payment firm GoCardless to cut 15% of headcount
The layoffs are part of broader plans for the company to lower its costs by 15%.
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News ycombinator 3 years ago
Tom Blomfield of GoCardless and Monzo is our newest Group Partner Y Combinator
Introducing YC's newest Group Partner, Tom Blomfield
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News American Banker 4 years ago
GoCardless buying Nordigen to add open banking tech
By acquiring the Latvian data-sharing specialist, the London-based payment company hopes to beat fintech rivals in the race to power account-to-account transactions.
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Press release PRNewswire 4 years ago
GoCardless to acquire open banking platform Nordigen, combining broad open banking connectivity with bank payment expertise
/PRNewswire/ -- GoCardless, the global leader in direct bank payments, has announced its plans to acquire Nordigen, the freemium open banking data provider, as...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at GoCardless over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
45
Postings analysed
34
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
Python62%
SQL41%
JavaScript29%
Ruby26%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js24%
Ruby on Rails24%
Databases
Google BigQuery38%
BigQuery35%
ElasticSearch15%
PostgreSQL15%
Cloud & platforms
GCP44%
GitHub18%
Vertex AI18%
Looker18%
AI & ML
Gemini3%
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Full GoCardless tech stack 45 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$98k
Typical range
$40k – $270k
Open positions
23
17 Jobs
Junior 17.6%
Middle 29.4%
Senior 23.5%
Staff 17.6%
Architect 11.8%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 3 $108k $93k – $197k
Middle 5 $71k $54k – $124k
Senior 4 $100k $63k – $197k
Staff 3 $118k $108k – $202k
Architect 2 $217k $164k – $270k
Highest paying role US Chief Compliance Officer - Remote $270k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at GoCardless By role, level and city, against the market · 23 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
31
15 opened / 21 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
42 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
15% ▼
Legal
15% ▲
Leadership
10% ▲
Product
10% ▼
Operations
7% ▲
Solutions
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Leadership (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Slack to stack Oct 2026
Added Jira to stack Oct 2026
Added Postman to stack Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Docs to stack Sep 2026
New location: Melbourne Sep 2026
Added Git to stack Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Sep 2026
Added CloudFormation to stack Sep 2026
Added Azure to stack Sep 2026
Added Airflow to stack Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
4
Busiest office
London
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London United Kingdom
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5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, DevOps, Leadership
GoCardless Ltd, Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7EN, United Kingdom
seen since Jan 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
Riga Latvia
Regional office
Lisbon
12 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 42% engineering 8% remote 200-500 est. staff $98k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Data Science, Leadership
seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Lisbon Portugal
Sales office
Lisbon
9 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 200-500 est. staff $75k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Security, Leadership
seen since Nov 2025 careers board, job postings
Leeds United Kingdom
Sales office
Leeds
3 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $72k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Enterprise Apps, Solutions
seen since Jun 2026 careers board, job postings
Melbourne Australia
Regional office
Melbourne
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Solutions
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings

Jobs

$72k – $108k per year • In office • 2+ years exp • Riga
Python
SQL
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GCP
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$62k – $93k per year • In office • 2+ years exp • Lisbon
Python
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Vertex AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
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$132k – $197k per year • In office • 2+ years exp • London
Python
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Vertex AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
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$72k – $108k per year • In office • Riga
Python
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
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$79k – $118k per year • In office • Lisbon
Python
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
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$135k – $202k per year • In office • London
Python
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
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$65k – $97k per year • In office • Leeds
Postman
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$39k – $59k per year • In office • Lisbon
Postman
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$48k – $72k per year • In office • Contractor • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Leeds
JavaScript
Apex
Agentforce
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In office • Contractor • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Riga
JavaScript
Apex
Agentforce
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$109k – $164k per year • Remote (United Kingdom, Latvia) • Riga
Incident Management
Management
Agile
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$72k – $108k per year • In office • PhD • Riga
Python
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Vertex AI
DevOps
GCP
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Financials

Total raised
$75M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
12
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
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Series E 2019 $75M Details
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