Data at GoCardless 

You’ll sit in our Data & Business Systems group and will work with technical and non-technical people across the whole company. You’ll collaborate closely with our team of talented Analysts, Data Scientists, ML/AI Engineers and System Admins, designing and delivering first-class analytics to the business.

We’re a large team with an extensive remit and expect every member to work with initiative and be driven, holding each other accountable and to a high standard. Joining our team, you’ll work in a team that strives to be the best they can be. You’ll work on complex projects across GC’s data & business systems stack. 

You will enjoy being an analyst at GoCardless if:

• You’re looking to champion a great data culture within GC and in the wider data community. 
• You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences. 
• You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.

Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Technologies we use across GoCardless include: Looker, Python, Looker, Google Cloud Platform, dbt, Airflow, Vertrex and Jupyter amongst others.

You’re not expected to have expertise in all these technologies. Members of our team have picked up the tools once they’ve started working with the team. 

The Role

At GoCardless we use marketing throughout the customer lifecycle to acquire new customers and drive revenue growth through our existing merchant base. As part of this role, you will be working closely across all marketing teams - paid, organic, lifecycle - to understand how their marketing efforts are helping to grow our merchant base and accelerate revenue. Your insights will be turned into actions as your expertise helps drive the future of GoCardless.

What excites you 

• Collaborate with Growth Marketing measuring how our Paid and Organic marketing strategies drive acquisition, engagement and revenue growth
• Partner with marketing stakeholders to define and monitor marketing KPIs and identify trends, risks and opportunities in customer and campaign data to inform strategy aligned with business objectives
• Assist marketing teams in A/B test design and execution and analysing results using statistical methods
• Ensure data quality, accuracy and consistency across all marketing sources
• Build data products that help to monitor the health of campaigns, continuously innovating on the practices and the tools we rely on to deliver the right insights at the right decision points (A/B Testing, Analysis (SQL), Visualisation (Looker, Domo), Tracking (Google Analytics), Automation (Python), AI (Gemini)).

What excites us  

Essentials:

• You have a background working in (performance) marketing analytics or a marketer looking for a more data focused role. 
• You have knowledge of common marketing measurement metrics, tools & methodology.
• You are a self-starter, focused on results, with a demonstrated background in using analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of marketing campaigns
• You have experience with data visualisation tools and communicating findings from complex data sets in an accessible way
• You are proficient in basic SQL

Nice to have:

• A basic knowledge of Python/R is advantageous but not essential
• You have experience leveraging AI capabilities to enhance data analysis, automate tasks, and improve decision-making processes

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

Salary range: the expected base salary range for this position is between €45,600 - €68,400.

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 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.

Location: UK or Portugal

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

About you:

A YLD Senior Data Engineer is a highly skilled engineer who spans across data engineering and analytics engineering, and knows where the boundaries sit. You've built pipelines and transformation layers. You've inherited messy data projects and made them good. You have opinions about how data teams should work and the humility to adapt them to context.

You have a real passion for the craft and are an active learner who gets excited by the variety that consultancy brings: different clients, different stacks, different problems.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Delivering data work on client engagements: pipelines, transformation layers, models, and the infrastructure around them
• Adapting to different client contexts, legacy warehouse migrations, greenfield lakehouses, struggling transformation layers that need rescuing
• Defining and evolving our internal standards for data work: testing, documentation, project structure, code review
• Mentoring and growing data engineers across the company
• Showing up for client team moments (internal speakers, learning sessions, social events) to build strong working relationships.
• Contributing to proposals and helping shape engagements during the sales process
• Representing YLD externally through writing, speaking, and contributing to the wider data community.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• SQL as engineering: You write SQL that's reviewable, testable, and performs at scale. You understand query planning, engine quirks, and how materialisation choices affect cost and performance
• Python for data: You write typed, testable Python for pipelines and tooling. You've built and maintained production data systems, not just notebooks
• Data modelling: You've made deliberate choices between dimensional, Data Vault, normalised, and denormalised designs. You can explain those trade-offs in terms of flexibility, query performance, and maintainability
• Transformation architecture: You design transformations that are idempotent, incremental, and dependency-aware. You think in DAGs, not scripts
• Pipeline design: You understand batch, streaming, and micro-batch trade-offs. You consider latency, complexity, cost, and reprocessability. And choose the right approach for the problem
• Data testing: You write tests as code, schema contracts, assertions, and transformation logic. You know what to catch at build time vs. defer to observability
• Data observability: You treat data reliability like site reliability. Measurable indicators, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis
• CI/CD for data: You version, test, and deploy pipelines like software. Environment promotion, rollback strategies, and infrastructure as code for reproducible environments
• Data governance: You've implemented lineage, cataloguing, sensitive data classification, or access control. Not just built pipelines, but made them auditable and secure
• Cost-conscious: You've optimised warehouse spend, storage strategies, or job efficiency. You treat compute as a resource to manage, not ignore
• Platform fluency: You've worked across the modern stack. Orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), ingestion (Fivetran, Airbyte, custom), and transformation (dbt, Spark)
• Cross-functional fluency: You translate engineering constraints into business terms and negotiate realistic commitments

You’ll be:

• Self-motivated and proactive
• Comfortable with ambiguity, experimentation, and iteration
• Collaborative by default. You work well in teams and across teams
• Analytical and detail-oriented in your approach to problems
• Comfortable context-switching across clients, stacks, and problem types
• Willing to shape engagements, not just deliver them: contributing to proposals, scoping, and client relationships
• Active in the wider data community: writing, speaking, or open-source contribution
• Genuinely committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Benefits you'll get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• Company’s Pension Scheme (UK Only)
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• £2000/€2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• £300/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching
• Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30-45 Minutes)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (90 Minutes)
• Call with the Head of Engineering (60 Minutes)

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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.

Data at GoCardless 

You’ll sit in our Data & Business Systems group and will work with technical and non-technical people across the whole company. You’ll collaborate closely with our team of talented Analysts, Data Scientists, ML/AI Engineers and System Admins, designing and delivering first-class analytics to the business.

We’re a large team with an extensive remit and expect every member to work with initiative and be driven, holding each other accountable and to a high standard. Joining our team, you’ll work in a team that strives to be the best they can be. You’ll work on complex projects across GC’s data & business systems stack. 

You will enjoy being an analyst at GoCardless if:

• You’re looking to champion a great data culture within GC and in the wider data community. 
• You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences. 
• You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.

Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Technologies we use across GoCardless include: Looker, Python, Looker, Google Cloud Platform, dbt, Airflow, Vertrex and Jupyter amongst others.

You’re not expected to have expertise in all these technologies. Members of our team have picked up the tools once they’ve started working with the team. 

The Role

At GoCardless we use marketing throughout the customer lifecycle to acquire new customers and drive revenue growth through our existing merchant base. As part of this role, you will be working closely across all marketing teams - paid, organic, lifecycle - to understand how their marketing efforts are helping to grow our merchant base and accelerate revenue. Your insights will be turned into actions as your expertise helps drive the future of GoCardless.

What excites you 

• Collaborate with Growth Marketing measuring how our Paid and Organic marketing strategies drive acquisition, engagement and revenue growth
• Partner with marketing stakeholders to define and monitor marketing KPIs and identify trends, risks and opportunities in customer and campaign data to inform strategy aligned with business objectives
• Assist marketing teams in A/B test design and execution and analysing results using statistical methods
• Ensure data quality, accuracy and consistency across all marketing sources
• Build data products that help to monitor the health of campaigns, continuously innovating on the practices and the tools we rely on to deliver the right insights at the right decision points (A/B Testing, Analysis (SQL), Visualisation (Looker, Domo), Tracking (Google Analytics), Automation (Python), AI (Gemini)).

What excites us  

Essentials:

• You have a background working in (performance) marketing analytics or a marketer looking for a more data focused role. 
• You have knowledge of common marketing measurement metrics, tools & methodology.
• You are a self-starter, focused on results, with a demonstrated background in using analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of marketing campaigns
• You have experience with data visualisation tools and communicating findings from complex data sets in an accessible way
• You are proficient in basic SQL

Nice to have:

• A basic knowledge of Python/R is advantageous but not essential
• You have experience leveraging AI capabilities to enhance data analysis, automate tasks, and improve decision-making processes

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

Base salary range: €32,000 - €48,000 

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 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.

Data at GoCardless 

You’ll sit in our Data & Business Systems group and will work with technical and non-technical people across the whole company. You’ll collaborate closely with our team of talented Analysts, Data Scientists, ML/AI Engineers and System Admins, designing and delivering first-class analytics to the business.

We’re a large team with an extensive remit and expect every member to work with initiative and be driven, holding each other accountable and to a high standard. Joining our team, you’ll work in a team that strives to be the best they can be. You’ll work on complex projects across GC’s data & business systems stack. 

You will enjoy being an analyst at GoCardless if:

• You’re looking to champion a great data culture within GC and in the wider data community; 
• You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences; 
• You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.

Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Technologies we use across GoCardless include: Looker, Domo, Tableau, Python, Looker, Google Cloud Platform, dbt, Airflow, Supermetrics & Demandbase amongst others.

You’re not expected to have expertise in all these technologies. Members of our team have picked up the tools once they’ve started working with the team. 

The Role

At GoCardless, we excel in experimentation to optimise user acquisition, activation, and retention through continuous discovery and data-driven decision making. As a Growth Analyst, you will partner across Growth, Commercial Strategy, and the wider Data & Business Systems team to design and deliver analytics that shape our self-serve business. You will be instrumental in evaluating performance across the full funnel — from acquisition to monetisation — and in generating insights that influence strategic decisions. 

What excites you 

• Shape commercial measurement across the funnel, collaborating with Growth Marketing, Sales, Commercial Finance and Product to track and evaluate how our acquisition, activation, and monetisation initiatives drive incremental customer and revenue growth.
• You will translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that inform go-to-market strategy, pricing, and self-serve optimisation
• Be responsible for defining how we understand return on investment & growth across growth initiatives 
• Proactively identify the biggest growth opportunities in our key channels by delivering deep analysis into customer segments, lifetime values (LTVs), diminishing returns etc and helping the team to prioritise and implement.
• Applying quantitative analysis, generate actionable insights and drive the adoption of your proposed changes in marketing by influencing stakeholders
• Continuously innovate on the practices and the tools we rely on to deliver the right insights at the right decision points (A/B Testing, Analysis (SQL), Visualisation (Looker, Domo), Tracking (Amplitude), Automation (Python), AI (Gemini, Claude)

What excites us  

• You bring strong analytical skills with experience linking data to revenue outcomes — whether through funnel analysis, cohort performance, pricing impact, or channel economics.
• You can distil complex analysis into clear recommendations for commercial and non-technical stakeholders, influencing strategy across Growth, Marketing, and Product.
• You have a bias for experimentation and discovery, always seeking ways to uncover new opportunities to improve acquisition, activation, retention, and monetisation.
• You have a background working in similar commercial analytics roles and have a deep understanding of the domain & and are very knowledgeable of growth strategies
• You are a self-starter, focused on results, with a demonstrated background in using analytics to drive the commercial strategy
• You have extensive experience owning and developing experiment processes, including running A/B tests, and have a very strong understanding of testing and experimental design
• You have extensive experience with data visualisation tools mentioned above and demonstrate storytelling ability with data in order to influence decision making and growth understanding
• You have advanced SQL skills and intermediate Python/R skills & have experience leveraging AI capabilities to enhance data analysis, automate tasks, and improve decision-making processes

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

Base salary range: €41,600 - €62,400

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 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.