Software Development Engineer
Riga, LatviaFull-TimeMid-levelSoftware Engineering
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: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, ReactJS,, BigQuery, Prometheus, Google Cloud. You’ll also collaborate with systems and services built in Python/Django and JavaScript.
- Proficiency in all of these technologies is not a prerequisite. If you’re unsure, please apply.
- 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.
- You can build and maintain 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 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.
The Good Stuff!
- Wellbeing: Dedicated support and medical cover to keep you healthy.
- Work Away Scheme: Work from anywhere for up to 90 days in any 12-month period.
- Hybrid Working: Our hybrid model offers flexibility, with in-office days determined by your team.
- Equity: All permanently employed GeeCees get equity to share in our success.
- Parental leave: Tailored leave to support your life's great adventure.
- Time off: Annual holiday leave based on your location, supplemented by 3 volunteer days and 4 wellness days.
We’re building the payment network of the future, and to achieve our goal, we need a diverse team with a range of perspectives and experiences. As of July 2024, here’s where we stand
- 45% identify as women
- 23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed, or Other
- 10% identify as LGBTQIA+
- 9% identify as neurodiverse
- 2% identify as disabled
