Solution Engineer II
GoCardless is hiring a Solution Engineer II in Lisbon, Portugal. It pays €35k-€53k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Drive technical sales and solution engineering for bank payment products with integrated AI features.
About us
GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect, manage and send bank payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking. With US$130bn+ processed annually across 30+ countries, we handle recurring and one-off payments without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees. Our end-to-end payment platform also features AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, alongside connections to over 350 platforms businesses use everyday.
We are headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit www.gocardless.com and follow us on LinkedIn @GoCardless.
Mollie is the leading payments and financial services partner for business, rooted in Europe, with global reach.
The role
You will be joining our Solution Engineering team and will be the primary technical lead during engagements with our prospective and existing merchants. You will help qualify, shape, close and support new and existing business opportunities. You will provide technical guidance and oversight on our most exciting opportunities whilst working alongside our sales teams.
Your day-to-day will focus on:
- Working with our sales team on new and existing opportunities
- Presenting and crafting demos showcasing our product
- Performing technical discovery and architecting solution designs for prospects
- Work closely with our product team on product improvements, new initiatives and feature requests
- Work alongside implementation managers and customer success teams to ensure a smooth journey for clients
What excites you
- You are a problem solver at heart
- You have a love for learning and are curious by nature
- You are consultative and love to get stuck into the detail
- You have a growth mindset and are open to new lines of thought
- You love to help clients accelerate their growth and build innovative experiences
What excites us
- Experience as a pre-sales or post-sales solution engineer
- Ability to articulate complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences
- Ability to work with API tools such as Postman and debugging/logging tools
- Experience in building integrations with Payment-Service Providers
- A deep understanding of how APIs function
- Programming skills in at least one common programming language
- A compelling storyteller
Base salary range: €35,200 - €52,800 + 30% OTE.
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.
(some of) The good stuff
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
- Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
Life at GoCardless
We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.
Diversity & Inclusion
As of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices.
To ensure that we're representative of the world around us - and to be able to review relevant benchmarks - we ask GeeCees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of GeeCees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see GeeCees identifying as:
Asian, Black, Mixed or Other — 25%
Neurodiverse — 9%
LGBTQIA+ — 9%
Disabled — 1%
Average age — 33
Female — 45%
Male — 55%
We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.
If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here
Sustainability
We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. Check out our sustainability action plan here.
Find out more about Life at GoCardless via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
How we rate this
Solution Engineer II at GoCardless rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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- Tell me about a project where pre sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where apis was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where payment gateways was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where technical demos was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Postman in your day-to-day work.
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