Software Engineer

Who we are:

TrueLayer is Europe’s fastest-growing Pay by Bank network. We power smarter, safer and faster payments by combining real-time bank payments with financial and identity data. E-commerce, iGaming and Financial Services businesses use our products to onboard new users, accept money and make payouts in seconds, and at scale. Live across 22 countries and with 1 new user joining TrueLayer’s Pay by Bank network every 3 seconds, we’re in a very exciting growth stage. This is why we’re expanding the team across our offices in London, Milan, and Dublin.

Listed in Sifted as one of the 100 fastest growing start-ups in UK & Ireland, and CNBC’s World Top Fintech Companies, we’re trusted by industry leaders like RyanAir and Just Eat Takeaway for continued innovation within our payment products. To date, we’ve raised over $300 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Northzone, and Tencent. But this is just the beginning.

We’re looking for people who are excited about joining the Pay by Bank revolution and helping us change the way the world pays. Could this be you?

Description

At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone — so we’ve made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at people’s fingertips.

We’re looking for Engineers who love learning new things and working with others to solve complex customer problems. You’ll be at the heart of financial innovation, using industry-disrupting technologies like open banking to revolutionise online payments, and enable financial data to be integrated into any app or website.

Working at a rapidly growing fintech, you’ll encounter new and exciting challenges as we scale our products and infrastructure to meet the demands of our customers, and expand our ecosystem to open up new possibilities. Guided by our Engineering Principles, you’ll collaborate on the design, implementation, delivery and operation of our products — in short: you’ll build it, you’ll run it!

In addition to working with modern development frameworks and cloud technologies, we are committed to helping you develop new skills and advance in your career. Whether you want to continue to grow your technical expertise or move into leadership, we have clear and tangible paths for everyone, irrespective of your level of experience, role or discipline.

Our challenges

• We want to continuously iterate and improve our offering without compromising the stability or long-term maintainability of our systems.
• We serve millions of API requests with a 99.95% availability SLA. Our platform must remain a reliable foundation that our customers can build upon as we expand (new products, new geographies, more volume).
• We want TrueLayer to be an exceptional place to work. We want our processes and interactions to stay honest, genuine and human as the company grows.
• We want our engineers to grow with us. To have the opportunity, the guidance and the support to develop their technical and core skills to the fullest within the organisation.

What We Expect From You, As a Software Engineer

• Aim to reach proficiency as a user of our platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, etc). Training will be available to boost your current knowledge.
• Collaborate with Product stakeholders and iterate fast on product development.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help the rest of the team to deliver in fast and safe iteration cycles promoting design patterns, testing and automation.
• Advocate for operational readiness, help the team to maintain dashboards and alerting systems and eventually participate in the incident response process.
• Contribute to cross-team technology efforts by joining our engineering guilds.
• Align with our values and help make sure TrueLayer remains an exceptional place to work.

We’d be particularly excited if you have

• Experience with Rust
• Understanding of protocol buffers, gRPC, and message queue systems.
• Experience building libraries and involvement in open source software.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

Benefits And Compensation

50,000 - €60,000 + equity

What You Can Expect From Us

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company
• Flexible hours and hybrid working - we offer a hybrid approach to work of 3 days per week remote working and 2 days per week in our new offices in London Milan and Dublin
• Need to collect the kids from childcare? Love a workout in the gym first thing? No worries, we trust you to do your best work within our hybrid framework
• A one-off contribution of €200 to help you set up your home office
• Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard ✈️
• 2 volunteering days to support causes important to you
• Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure
• Meal vouchers for every day you’re working, including while remote
• Budget to spend on learning & development each year
• 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year and your birthday off (on top of the holiday allowance)
• Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill ♀️

About Our Hiring Process

Our hiring process typically consists of four stages:

• A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners.
• A take-home exercise Software Engineering Challenge.
• 2-hour video interview with two TrueLayer engineers.
• 1.5-hour total final round video interviews.

Full details on the interview process, including preparation tips and the qualities we look for in future TrueLayeristas, can be found on our blog.

At TrueLayer, we don’t just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups (e.g. people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from all socio-economic backgrounds). If you’d like to discuss alternative working patterns, please let us know.

We will always aim to make appropriate adjustments to ensure we are fully inclusive to people with different needs during our interview process. So if you need us to make any adjustments to suit your individual needs please let us know - we’ll be happy to support you.