Software Engineer - Back-End Development

Who We Are

At TrueLayer, we’re creating a payments network that better connects banks, businesses and everybody. And we’re going big. We’re taking on cards with a payment method that’s actually designed for the online, on-demand world we live in. Removing friction from the most crucial part of commerce: the payment.

To date, we’ve raised $270 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Addition and Tencent. We’ve got offices in London, Milan and Dublin. And we’re trusted by industry leaders like Coinbase, Revolut and William Hill… though we’re not stopping here.

We’re on a mission to change the way the world pays, invests, shops and saves. To transform how people approach payments. To build a brand that redefines an entire industry — and we’d like your help to get us there.

The Role

As a Software Engineer at TrueLayer, you will 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.

You will 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!

What We Expect From You

• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Keen learner that aims to reach proficiency as a user of our platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, etc) and our tools (Rust, RabbitMQ, Helm, PostgreSQL, gRPC etc), based on the team tech stack. Training will be available to boost your current knowledge.
• Collaborate with Product stakeholders and exercise a product mindset.
• Help the rest of the team to deliver in fast and safe iteration cycles promoting design patterns, testing, and automation.
• Delivers simple, well-defined tasks autonomously and reaches out for support and guidance when necessary.
• Advocate for operational readiness, help the team to maintain dashboards and alerting systems, and eventually participate in the incident response process.
• Align with our values and ensure TrueLayer remains an innovative place to work.

About You

• Experience working with backend languages such as Rust, .NET, Java, or Go.
• Understanding of common design patterns and principles, and how/when to apply them.
• Knowledge of relational or non-relational database technology.
• Understanding of microservice architecture, its advantages, and associated challenges.
• Familiarity with testing best practices.

Benefits And Compensation

What you can expect from us:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company.
• Flexible hours and hybrid working.
• €200 home office setup contribution.
• Flexible holiday policy.
• Volunteering days.
• Generous parental leave.
• Meal vouchers.
• Learning & development budget.
• Wellbeing days.
• Birthday off.
• Mental wellbeing platform membership.
• CCNL commercio.

About Our Hiring Process

Our hiring process typically consists of four stages:

1. A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners.
2. A take-home exercise Software Engineering Challenge.
3. 2-hour video interview with two TrueLayer engineers.
4. 1-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.