Company brief · updated 2026-10-12
gocardless.com · Fintech · Collect and send payments, minimise failures, and fight fraud. No more chasing payments and no expensive card fees.
Today: Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking, with Success+ helping customers recover failed payments
Roles: Engineering Manager II · Senior Data Scientist, Payment Intelligence · Data Analyst II · Data Science Manager
Requirements mention: machine learning · payment rails · experimentation · sequence-based models · A/B testing · production-grade ML models
Inference: the Payment Intelligence roles point to continued investment in ML models that predict payment failures and recover them, running across GoCardless's existing payment rails.
Today: Collect and send payments while fighting fraud, with Protect+ defending customers from fraud
Roles: Senior Data Scientist, Payment Intelligence · Data Analyst II · Threat and Analytics Lead · Fraud Investigations Specialist
Requirements mention: fraud prevention · transaction monitoring · fraud investigations · risk alert queue · Protect+
Inference: fraud work is staffed across ML models, analytics and manual investigation.
Today: Connections to 2,300+ banks across the UK and Europe
Roles: Director of Engineering
Requirements mention: core banking connections · open banking connection · file submissions · incident management
No inference: a single leadership hire for the Connectivity group is not enough to say where connectivity is heading.
Today: A payment platform that collects and sends bank payments
Roles: Data Engineer
Requirements mention: ETL/ELT pipelines · data quality checks · BigQuery · data streaming technologies · machine learning pipelines
Inference: the two Data Engineer postings (Riga and Lisbon) point to work on ingesting third-party data. The Riga posting names Google Cloud, BigQuery, dbt and Airflow, and the Lisbon posting also asks for streaming and machine learning pipelines.
Today: Salesforce is listed among the 350+ business softwares GoCardless connects with on its site; these postings are for internal systems, not that integration
Roles: Salesforce Developer (12 month fixed term contract) · Salesforce Developer (12 month fixed term contract)
Requirements mention: Revenue Cloud · Sales Cloud · CPQ · approvals automation · Salesforce architecture
Inference: the two Salesforce Developer postings suggest a new in-house team building quote, pricing and approval workflows in Salesforce to speed up internal change.
| Department | Open |
|---|---|
| Product Development | 14 |
| Operations | 4 |
| Risk | 3 |
| Sales | 2 |
| Customer | 1 |
| Finance | 1 |
| People | 1 |
Product Development holds 17 of the 31 open roles and most of the engineering, data science and analytics titles at GoCardless (which its site describes as a Mollie company); Operations, Sales, Customer, Finance and People hold the remaining 14.
Seniority: Mostly mid-level (14 of 31), with 7 manager, 4 senior, 4 junior, 1 director and 1 role with unknown seniority.
Skills named most: Python, SQL, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, Direct Debit, real-time payments, Vertex AI, Looker, open banking, deep learning, machine learning, Ruby on Rails
Locations: Roles are listed in Riga (12), Lisbon (9), Leeds (5), London (4) and Melbourne (1). No roles are listed as remote. A Talent Acquisition Partner posting from November 2025 recruits for Product Development in what it calls GoCardless's new Lisbon hub.
If you're applying: For data roles, start with the Senior Data Scientist, Payment Intelligence and Data Science Manager roles in Riga, Lisbon and London, which share a Python, SQL, BigQuery and Vertex AI stack. The Data Analyst II roles in Riga and Lisbon also ask for SQL and Python, and add Looker, Amplitude and A/B testing. The three Engineering Manager II roles ask for Python, Ruby on Rails and React. Lisbon has 9 open roles, 5 of them in Product Development. For commercial roles, Leeds has Solution Engineer II, Account Executive, Emerging, UK&I and two Customer Success Manager roles for UK & Ireland. The Solution Engineer and Customer Success Manager postings list Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking. The Account Executive posting asks for payments industry experience, MEDDPICC, selling APIs and B2B SaaS quota experience. Operations in Riga and Lisbon also has controls and credit roles: Controls Specialist (SOC1 audits, three lines of defence), Credit Controller and Credit Risk Administrator. Match your application to the exact requirement phrases quoted in each posting.
If you're selling or recruiting: 14 of 31 roles opened in the last 30 days and none closed, so hiring is active. The largest cluster is Payment Intelligence: 11 roles across data science, analytics and engineering management, including three Engineering Manager II roles opened on 2026-10-07. The data science roles run on Google Cloud and Vertex AI; the Engineering Manager roles list Python, Ruby on Rails and React. Fraud analytics and investigations sit alongside it in Operations, as do controls and credit-risk roles. On the commercial side, the Leeds UK&I team is hiring Solution Engineers, an Account Executive for Emerging ($1-$30m) accounts and Customer Success Managers. The Solution Engineer postings mention AI-powered solutions alongside bank payments. The Salesforce roles are internal systems work on Revenue Cloud and CPQ. The site describes GoCardless as a Mollie company.
| Title | Department | Location | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Manager | Product Development | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-10-21 |
| Product Manager | Product Development | Riga, Latvia | 2026-10-21 |
| Legal Counsel - 12 month FTC | Risk | London, UK | 2026-10-14 |
| US Chief Compliance Officer - Remote | Risk | Texas, USA | 2026-10-13 |
| Customer Operations Representative, French-speaking (12-month FTC) | Operations | Riga, Latvia | 2026-10-09 |
| Engineering Manager II | Product Development | London, UK | 2026-10-07 |
| Engineering Manager II | Product Development | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-10-07 |
| Engineering Manager II | Product Development | Riga, Latvia | 2026-10-07 |
| Solution Engineer II | Sales | Leeds, UK | 2026-10-06 |
| Solution Engineer II | Sales | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-10-06 |
| Director of Engineering | Product Development | Riga, Latvia | 2026-10-02 |
| Controls Specialist | Operations | Riga, Latvia | 2026-09-30 |
| Data Engineer | Product Development | Riga, Latvia | 2026-09-24 |
| Data Engineer | Product Development | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-09-24 |
| Technical Account Manager | Customer | Melbourne, Australia | 2026-09-23 |
| Associate Legal Counsel | Risk | Leeds, UK | 2026-09-10 |
| Threat and Analytics Lead | Operations | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-08-26 |
| Fraud Investigations Specialist | Operations | Riga, Latvia | 2026-06-11 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II | Product Development | London, UK | 2026-06-11 |
| Management Accountant | Finance | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-05-18 |
| Data Analyst II | Product Development | Riga, Latvia | 2026-03-16 |
| Data Analyst II | Product Development | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-03-16 |
| Data Science Manager | Product Development | Riga, Latvia | 2026-01-09 |
| Data Science Manager | Product Development | Lisbon, Portugal | 2026-01-09 |
| Data Science Manager | Product Development | London, UK | 2026-01-09 |
| Talent Acquisition Partner | People | Lisbon, Portugal | 2025-11-04 |