To make Medium work, we log user data. By using Medium, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. Homepage Sign inGet started Tech @ GoCardless Stories from the people designing and building GoCardless Follow Meet Sucheta Goel, Engineering Manager Meet Sucheta Goel, Engineering Manager Sucheta moved from India to England earlier this year to take up an Engineering Manager role in the Merchant Funds team at GoCardless. GoCardless Oct 4 5 years at GoCardless 5 years at GoCardless The theme of our recent annual GoCardless event, ‘GC LIVE’ was ‘back to the beginning’. And this is very much how it still feels. Like with… Amir Mostofi Sep 30 Meet Abdulmusawwir Sanni, Senior Software Development Engineer at GoCardless Meet Abdulmusawwir Sanni, Senior Software Development Engineer at GoCardless Abdulmusawwir Sanni, 27, from Nigeria, joined GoCardless four years ago as an intern. He’s now a Senior Software Development Engineer. GoCardless Sep 24 Using CIS benchmarks to set expectations in a DevOps environment Using CIS benchmarks to set expectations in a DevOps environment In the old world there was often a divide between developers, security and operations working in their own silos. This is not an effective… Greg Sep 6 Meet Megan McDonald, Product Manager at GoCardless Meet Megan McDonald, Product Manager at GoCardless Megan McDonald, from the United States, joined GoCardless in March 2021, swapping Chicago for London. GoCardless Sep 1 Growing your Engineering Career at GoCardless Growing your Engineering Career at GoCardless Within Engineering at GoCardless, we believe that all our engineers have the potential for growth. Andrew Bunday Aug 18 Improving Data Literacy at GoCardless (Part 2) Improving Data Literacy at GoCardless (Part 2) At GoCardless, we care a lot about data. At the end of the day, we rely on data to make the right business decisions. Given our focus and… Junyi Jul 27 Improving Data Literacy at GoCardless Improving Data Literacy at GoCardless As GoCardless grows 🌱, it is becoming increasingly more important for teams to have the right data to make business decisions at scale Junyi Jul 22 Should I accept an internal product management role? Should I accept an internal product management role? When you think of product management, you think of solving a need for an external customer. Most examples of product management that you… Alison Hickson Jul 8 Approach product management as if you were doing a puzzle Approach product management as if you were doing a puzzle NB: The title of this blog post clearly indicates I’ve been in London lockdown too long, doing too many puzzles. However, if it makes… Alison Hickson Apr 18 Being set up for success in the GoCardless engineering interview Being set up for success in the GoCardless engineering interview Interviewing is a big investment, both from candidates and the company. At GoCardless, we have tried to come up with a process that is… Keylor Chaves Feb 15 GoCardless’ Engineering Principles GoCardless’ Engineering Principles By Matt Thomson , James Turley , Chris Ashby, Abdulmusawwir Sanni and Andrew Bunday Andrew Bunday Jan 26 We had an incident, and it was great Failures are a fact of life. What’s important is how you prepare for them and respond to them, and in that sense this was a great incident. Andrew Jones Jan 25 Deploying Software at GoCardless: Open-Sourcing our “Getting Started” Tutorial Deploying Software at GoCardless: Open-Sourcing our “Getting Started” Tutorial To help those facing similar challenges, we’re open-sourcing our “Getting Started” tutorial to deploy apps into GoCardless Kubernetes Lawrence Jones Jan 12 An overview of engineering at GoCardless An overview of engineering at GoCardless Hello, my name is Neil and I am the CTO at GoCardless. Here at GoCardless we provide a new way for businesses of all sizes to take control… Neil Turner Jan 8 How we compress Pub/Sub messages and more, saving a load of money How we compress Pub/Sub messages and more, saving a load of money Compression is a trick that can be used to solve a load of problems. Often, your tools will compress content transparently: most modern… Lawrence Jones Dec 29, 2020 Who can do what? Who can do what? Earlier this year, we overhauled our permissions system at GoCardless. It’s given us a platform to build exciting tooling, as well as… Lisa Karlin Curtis Dec 11, 2020 Connected data: Using BigQuery to analyse user behaviour in response to webhooks Connected data: Using BigQuery to analyse user behaviour in response to webhooks Of all the changes I’ve seen over GoCardless’ adolescence, one of the most impactful has been collecting all our data into a single place. Lawrence Jones Nov 8, 2020