Software Engineer - Back-End Development

About TrueLayer

TrueLayer is Europe’s leading open banking payments network. We power smarter, safer, and faster online payments by combining real-time bank payments with financial and identity data. Businesses big and small use our products to onboard new users, accept money, and make payouts in seconds, and at scale.

Job Description

At TrueLayer, we’re building a global open banking platform that’s changing how money moves and so much more. We make payments and refunds instant, account data accessible, and verification seamless — all so innovators in every industry can build better financial experiences for their users.

We’re looking for software 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 revolutionize online payments and enable financial data to be integrated into any app or website.

Responsibilities

• Aim to reach proficiency as a user of our platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.) and our tools (Rust and .NET), based on the team tech stack. 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.

Requirements

• Experience working in any common backend language/framework such as .NET, Java, Rust, or Go.
• Understanding of common design patterns and principles, and how/when to apply them.
• Familiarity with API design and experience with at least one web framework.
• Knowledge of at least one SQL or NoSQL database technology.
• Understanding of microservice architecture, its advantages, and associated challenges.
• Familiarity with testing best practices — TDD, unit testing, and integration testing. How/when to apply them.
• Interest in observability and alerting in mission-critical distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

• 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.
• 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.

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. 1-hour video interview with two TrueLayer engineers.
4. 1.5-hour total final round video interviews.

At TrueLayer, we don’t just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives, and personalities. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups. If you’d like to discuss alternative working patterns, please let us know.