Senior Elasticsearch Engineer (contract)

GoCardless

London, United Kingdom
£600 pd; equity: not specified for contractors; be...
On-site
Deep hands-on experience building elasticsearch clusters
Operational maturity with observability and monitoring
Cloud platform experience with managed elasticsearch
This role involves leading engineering work to build a critical search solution for GoCardless's merchant dashboard used by thousands of businesses

Job Summary

  • This role involves leading engineering work to build a critical search solution for GoCardless's merchant dashboard used by thousands of businesses.
  • The position is a 3-month day rate contract with the possibility of extension to 6 months, focusing on production-ready code delivery.
  • GoCardless offers wellbeing support, a Work Away Scheme allowing up to 90 days remote work, and a hybrid working model.

Matching Summary

This role involves leading engineering work to build a critical search solution for GoCardless's merchant dashboard used by thousands of businesses.

Salary

£600 per day; Equity: Not specified for contractors; Benefits: Medical cover, holiday leave, wellness days

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Deep hands-on experience building Elasticsearch clusters
  • Operational maturity with observability and monitoring
  • Cloud platform experience with managed Elasticsearch
  • Strong programming skills in Ruby

Nice-to-have

  • Track record of leaving teams more capable through documentation
  • Experience pairing with engineers throughout engagement
  • Ability to design resilient systems at scale

Key Requirements

  • Production environment experience with Elasticsearch
  • Full stack knowledge from cluster config to Query DSL
  • Experience with major cloud provider managed deployments

Work Rights

Not specified

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