The role

We are seeking a passionate Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Riga office.

You will be primarily responsible for driving the recruitment of exceptional talent across our Product Development (PD) functions. This role requires a good understanding of the PD talent market and the ability to build strong relationships with both candidates and hiring managers. You will also have the opportunity to support the wider Talent Acquisition team with hiring across other global locations.

What you'll be doing:

• End-to-End Recruitment: Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for a variety of roles, from initial briefing to offer negotiation.
• Support Broader Hiring Needs: When required, support recruitment efforts across PD and other functions such as Finance, Legal, People, and Operations.
• Strategic Talent Sourcing: Develop and execute effective sourcing strategies to identify and attract top-tier talent, utilising a variety of channels including online platforms, professional networks, local communities, and events.
• Employer Branding & Outreach: Represent GoCardless, building relationships with potential candidates and promoting our employer value proposition through networking, meetups, and other initiatives.
• Stakeholder Management: Partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to understand their talent needs, provide market insights, and ensure a seamless and positive candidate experience.
• Local Market Expertise: Leverage your deep understanding of the local talent market, including compensation benchmarks, competitor activity, and emerging trends, to inform recruitment strategies.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to the refinement of our recruitment processes and tools, ensuring efficiency, fairness, and a focus on candidate experience.
• Data-Driven Approach: Track and analyse key recruitment metrics to identify areas for improvement and measure the effectiveness of your talent acquisition strategies.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the wider global Talent Acquisition team, sharing best practices and contributing to global talent initiatives.

What excites you

• The opportunity to play a significant role in the growth of our growing and thriving Riga office.
• The chance to focus on recruiting for impactful PD teams.
• Leveraging your deep understanding of the PD talent landscape to attract exceptional individuals.
• Building strong relationships with hiring managers and contributing directly to their team's success.
• Being part of a collaborative and supportive global Talent Acquisition team.
• The prospect of contributing to the continued success of a rapidly growing FinTech company.

What excites us

• Experience as an in-house Talent Acquisition Partner or Recruiter, with a track record of successfully hiring for Product Development roles (Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, etc.) 
• Experience managing the full recruitment lifecycle with direct sourcing skills and experience utilising various sourcing tools and techniques.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships at all levels.  
• Data-driven approach, using data and insights to support hiring strategies 
• Commitment to creating a positive and inclusive candidate experience.

Base salary range: € 2100- € 3200 (gross).

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 (€ 2100 - € 2600 gross) 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.

Why Cast AI?

Cast AI is an automation platform that operates cloud-native and AI infrastructure at scale. By embedding autonomous decision-making directly into Kubernetes and cloud environments, Cast AI continuously optimizes performance, reliability, and efficiency in production.

The old way doesn't work. As Kubernetes and AI environments grow, manual decisions don’t. Cast AI replaces tickets, alerts, and manual tuning with continuous automation that adapts infrastructure as conditions change. Efficiency and cost savings follow naturally from that automation.

Over 2,100 companies already rely on Cast AI, including Akamai, BMW, Cisco, FICO, HuggingFace, NielsenIQ, Swisscom, and TGS.

Global team, diverse perspectives
We're headquartered in Miami, but our impact is international. We take a global and intentional approach to diversity. Today, Cast AI operates across 34 countries spanning Europe, North America, Latin America, and APAC, bringing a wide range of perspectives into how we build and lead. 

Unicorn momentum
In January 2026, we achieved unicorn status with a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Shinsegae Group (a $50+ billion Korean conglomerate). Our valuation now exceeds $1 billion, and we're just getting started.

Join us as we build the future of autonomous infrastructure.

This is a location-specific opportunity. We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following European countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

About the role

You'll join one of several teams building the low-level systems behind CAST AI's multi-cloud automation platform. The work sits at the intersection of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and Linux.

Depending on your strengths, you'll work in one of these areas:

• Cluster and node lifecycle - custom node bootstrapping across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Controllers and operators managing full node lifecycle. Bridging the gap between autoscaler decisions and running VMs - including working around limitations of managed Kubernetes platforms like EKS, GKE, and AKS.
• Cross-cloud provisioning - orchestrating infrastructure across regions and clouds. Workflow orchestration, provisioning integrations, networking and identity across cloud boundaries.
• Live container migration - zero-downtime relocation of running containers using CRIU checkpoint/restore, custom CRI-O and runc forks, and forked cloud CNI plugins. Memory page transfer, TCP session migration, process-level checkpoint/restore. Kernel-level Linux engineering applied to Kubernetes.
• Storage optimization - dynamic volume rightsizing, BtrFS compression, custom CSI drivers. Full storage stack from cloud disk APIs through filesystem internals to Kubernetes PV/PVC lifecycle.

Common across all teams: Go, deep Kubernetes, multi-cloud, building beyond what the ecosystem offers.

How we build

We invest heavily in agentic development and AI-powered tooling. Engineers work with code agents and automated workflows daily. We expect you to shape how these tools evolve.

Requirements:

• Strong backend fundamentals and production-grade coding, preferably Go.
• Hands-on Kubernetes internals, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems experience.
• Clear English communication, collaborative and self-directed.
• Bias toward action and ownership.

What would make you stand out

• Deep knowledge of EKS, GKE, or AKS internals.
• Low-level Linux experience: process internals, networking (NAT, iptables, conntrack, SDN), filesystems, storage.
• Kubernetes or cloud-native OSS contributions.
• Cloud storage depth - block storage, CSI, volume management, filesystem internals.
• Container runtime experience (CRI-O, runc, containerd) or CRIU.
• Experience with AI coding agents and agentic development workflows.
• Comfort building where there's no playbook.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate backend services, Kubernetes operators, and controllers in Go across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Solve infrastructure-layer problems — networking, scheduling, storage, compute, or container runtime internals.
• Build and maintain high-throughput services (gRPC/REST) and async orchestration workflows.
• Shape public and internal APIs.
• Leverage and improve AI-powered development workflows.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, on-call, and customer deep-dives.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary (€6,500 - €9,000 gross, depending on the level of experience)
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
• Collaborate with a global team of cloud experts and innovators, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology.
• Equity options.
• Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
• Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement. 
• Learning budget for professional and personal development - including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
• Annual hackathon to spark new ideas and strengthen team bonds.
• Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
• Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
• Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Hiring process

• Screening call with Recruiter
• Hiring Manager interview
• Technical interview (system design)
• Live coding
• Culture Check interview with an executive

*As part of our standard hiring process, we would like to inform you that a background check may be conducted at the final stage of recruitment through our third-party provider, Checkr.
*Please note that Cast AI does not provide any form of visa sponsorship/work permit.

#LI-Remote

Why Cast AI?

Cast AI is an automation platform that operates cloud-native and AI infrastructure at scale. By embedding autonomous decision-making directly into Kubernetes and cloud environments, Cast AI continuously optimizes performance, reliability, and efficiency in production.

The old way doesn't work. As Kubernetes and AI environments grow, manual decisions don’t. Cast AI replaces tickets, alerts, and manual tuning with continuous automation that adapts infrastructure as conditions change. Efficiency and cost savings follow naturally from that automation.

Over 2,100 companies already rely on Cast AI, including Akamai, BMW, Cisco, FICO, HuggingFace, NielsenIQ, Swisscom, and TGS.

Global team, diverse perspectives
We're headquartered in Miami, but our impact is international. We take a global and intentional approach to diversity. Today, Cast AI operates across 34 countries spanning Europe, North America, Latin America, and APAC, bringing a wide range of perspectives into how we build and lead. 

Unicorn momentum
In January 2026, we achieved unicorn status with a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Shinsegae Group (a $50+ billion Korean conglomerate). Our valuation now exceeds $1 billion, and we're just getting started.

Join us as we build the future of autonomous infrastructure.

This is a location-specific opportunity. We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following European countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

We are hiring across multiple teams!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on different key features of our product. We are currently hiring Senior Software Engineers for the following teams:

- Workload Optimization - Automates workload resource management by dynamically adjusting resource allocations, helping developers significantly reduce costs and improve application reliability.

- Karpenter - The Karpenter team powers the integration between Karpenter and Cast AI, bringing enterprise capabilities to the most popular open source Kubernetes autoscaler. We enhance Karpenter with advanced features that improve application reliability and performance while optimizing costs. By joining the team, you’ll bridge open source innovation with enterprise requirements, directly impacting how organizations run Karpenter at scale.

- Reporting - Builds a scalable reporting system that ingests millions of rows per second into our time-series databases, providing insights into cost savings, workload efficiencies, and Cast AI automation impact.

- Pricing - Drives the synchronization of public and customer cloud resources, availability, and dynamic pricing across all major cloud providers. Empowers autoscaling by leveraging discounts, commitments, and cross-cluster tracking to maximize savings. Provides a reliable source of truth for node pricing, resources, components, discounts, and commitments.

- Autoscaler - Automates Kubernetes node autoscaling to optimize clusters, balance workloads, remove underutilized nodes, and dynamically allocate capacity in real-time, thereby reducing cluster costs by half.

- Identity -  Builds and maintains the trust and access foundation for the entire platform, ensuring every user, service, and workload authenticates and interacts securely and seamlessly at scale.

- Billy -  Powers the critical day-2 operations layer of the platform - from billing and audit trails to notifications and feature flags - ensuring the platform runs reliably, transparently, and at scale for every customer, every day.

Here are some of the tools we use daily:

• Programming Languages: Go
• Cloud & Orchestration: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure
• Databases & Storage: PostgreSQL, Cloud Object Storage
• Messaging & APIs: GCP Pub/Sub, gRPC for internal communication, REST for public APIs
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo
• CI/CD & GitOps: GitLab CI with ArgoCD.

Requirements:

• Production experience with Go is strongly preferred; candidates without Go should demonstrate strong systems programming skills in a comparable language.
• Deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) - including real understanding of how compute, networking, and storage work under the hood.
• Understanding of Kubernetes internals - autoscaling and networking.
• You've personally driven a complex project end-to-end.
• Strong debugging, optimization, and performance-tuning skills - including query profiling, index design, and database performance tuning beyond ORM usage.
• You've run observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) in production.
• CI/CD and DevOps practices experience.
• Strong English skills, both verbal and written.
• Startup mindset: adaptable, proactive, and comfortable with ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build distributed systems that operate Kubernetes infrastructure autonomously at scale.
• Write production Go services that interact with AWS, GCP, and Azure APIs for real-time cloud resource management.
• Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, testing, and production rollout (most projects ship in 1-4 weeks).
• Debug complex production issues across cloud providers, Kubernetes clusters, and distributed services.
• Collaborate with product and other engineering teams to solve problems that don't have textbook solutions.
• Work with time-series data, cloud provider APIs, and Kubernetes control plane internals.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary (€6,500 - €9,000 gross, depending on the level of experience)
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
• Collaborate with a global team of cloud experts and innovators, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology.
• Equity options.
• Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
• Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement. 
• Learning budget for professional and personal development - including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
• Annual hackathon to spark new ideas and strengthen team bonds.
• Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
• Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
• Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Hiring process

• Screening call with Recruiter
• Hiring Manager interview
• Technical interview (system design)
• Live coding
• Culture Check interview with an executive

*As part of our standard hiring process, we would like to inform you that a background check may be conducted at the final stage of recruitment through our third-party provider, Checkr.
*Please note that Cast AI does not provide any form of visa sponsorship/work permit.

#LI-Remote

What is this role about?

As the Head of Product, Credit, you will lead the development of Bondora’s credit decision-making stack. This is a highly cross-functional role working across Credit, Data Science, Risk, Legal, and Engineering to build systems that turn raw data into smart, responsible, and scalable credit decisions. You will shape the roadmap, structure the tooling, and ensure we meet both regulatory and business goals as we scale into the existing and new markets.

Your main responsibilities will be: 

• Continuously talk to customers, validate problems, and turn insights into shipped outcomes
• Drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Bondora’s credit decisioning platform, ensuring scalable, compliant, and auditable decisions across markets.
• Design and scale core credit capabilities around data inputs, affordability logic, and credit files, ensuring they are robust, transparent, and ready for multi-country expansion
• Partner closely with Risk, Legal, Country teams, Data Science, and Engineering to evolve scoring logic, feature engineering, and PD modeling
• Enable risk managers with powerful configuration, testing, and monitoring tools (Taktile-powered)
• Own data quality and lifecycle for credit decisioning, ensuring integrity, traceability, and modeling readiness at scale.

What would ensure success in this role?

• Strong product thinking: ability to frame problems, run discovery, and turn insights into measurable shipped outcomes
• Experience building products powered by ML, data models, or AI systems - understanding how models are trained, evaluated, deployed, and monitored 
• Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical (Data Science, Engineering) and non-technical stakeholders (Risk, Legal, Country teams)

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with credit decisioning or underwriting platforms (e.g., Taktile, Provenir, or similar)
• Exposure to regulated domains such as lending, fintech, or digital banking.

What can you expect at Bondora? 

• Contribute to Bondora’s ambitious goal of reaching €1B in revenue by the end of 2026. Your skills and efforts will directly impact our growth trajectory and shape the future of our company.
• Our employees deserve the best. We recognize our people with a competitive salary and a generous benefits package (daily lunches in the office, monthly massage, five weeks of vacation, private healthcare compensation, €1,200 hobby grant, mental healthcare support, share options, and more!)
• We provide an environment that encourages your personal and professional growth. As we constantly evolve and innovate, you’ll have endless opportunities (and budget) to expand your skills and skyrocket your career.

The next steps

If you have the guts, ideas, and a team vision, apply now! 

Our hiring process: 

• Meet Karl, our Recruiter: Your first interview with him will give you the chance to share your experiences and aspirations. 
• Engage with Alexandra, VP of Product
• Put your skills to the test: Tackle a home task to present your skills. 
• Assessments: Complete our personality and logic assessments in Alva platform to showcase your strengths.
• Visit our office to meet product stakeholders on Team DNA interview, showcasing your expertise. 
• A final with our CPO, Mirko. 
• The celebration begins: If the stars align, receive an offer to join the Bondora team! 

What is this role about?

As the Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Bondora, you will be the backbone of our Data Science delivery. Your mission is to build the robust infrastructure that powers automated model pipelines, ensures deployment reliability, and governs the full ML lifecycle from experimentation to production.

This is a strategic and hands on engineering role. You will collaborate closely with Data Science, Data Engineering, and Development teams to remove friction, improve scalability, and bring stable, high quality ML solutions into everyday decision making.

You will guide the evolution of our ML engineering stack, lead high impact initiatives, and mentor engineers while shaping a culture of technical excellence 🌿

Your main responsibilities 🎯

• Guide the technical direction of Bondora’s ML engineering stack by selecting, evaluating, and implementing technologies, tools, and processes that improve scalability and reliability.
• Lead complex, high risk, or cross departmental projects that directly influence Data Science delivery, risk model performance, and production stability.
• Act as the bridge between Data Science, Data Engineering, and Development to identify and solve systemic technical challenges.
• Design and build advanced, production grade ML infrastructure and set the engineering standard for the team.
• Ensure all ML solutions are secure, observable, resilient, and scalable, following governance, compliance, and operational best practices.
• Mentor ML Engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and hands on technical leadership.
• Identify weaknesses or inefficiencies in model or data infrastructure and drive company wide improvements.
• Represent the ML Engineering team in technical discussions and communicate architectural decisions clearly to stakeholders.

What would ensure success in this role?💪

• Strong Python engineering background and experience with MLflow, Unity Catalog, Databricks, or equivalent platforms used for model lifecycle management.
• Proven experience designing ML infrastructure, including CI/CD, containerization with Docker or Kubernetes, and orchestration with Airflow or Prefect.
• Deep understanding of monitoring and observability frameworks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog, and a track record of improving pipeline reliability.
• Expertise in model governance, versioning, auditability, and operationalization from research to production.
• Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including cost effectiveness and security best practices.
• Experience leading cross functional initiatives and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to balance innovation and stability through structured experimentation, pilot phases, and safe adoption of new technologies.

What can you expect at Bondora? 

• Contribute to Bondora’s ambitious goal of reaching 1BN in revenue. Your skills and efforts will directly impact our growth trajectory and shape the future of our company.
• Our employees deserve the best. We recognize our people with a competitive salary and a generous benefits package (5 weeks of vacation, private healthcare compensation, hobby grant, mental healthcare support, share options and much more!)
• We provide an environment that encourages your personal and professional growth. As we constantly evolve and innovate, you’ll have endless opportunities (and budget) to expand your skills and skyrocket your career.

The next steps

If you have the guts, ideas, and a team vision, apply now! 

Our hiring process: 

1️⃣ Meet Kerli H., our recruiter, for an initial conversation about your background and ambitions.
2️⃣ Complete our personality and logic assessments via Alva Labs.
3️⃣ Meet Rafael, our Head of Data Science.
4️⃣ Complete case study.
5️⃣ Chat with Juris, our Chief Credit Officer.
6️⃣ If everything aligns, welcome to Bondora 🎉