At TrueLayer, we’re building the future of payments. We’re on a mission to take on outdated payment methods with a solution designed for today’s online, on-demand economy. By removing friction at the heart of commerce — the payment — we’re making it faster, safer, and smarter for everyone.
To date, we’ve raised $300 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Addition, and Tencent. With offices in London, Milan, and Dublin, we’re trusted by industry leaders like RyanAir and JustEat Takeaway. But this is just the beginning.
We’re reimagining how the world pays, invests, shops, and saves. We’re transforming payments for industries like e-Commerce and iGaming, redefining what’s possible with technology and innovation. Now, we’re looking for people who are ready to help us build a brand that changes an industry.
Description
At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone — so we've made it our goal to open up access and put fintech at people's fingertips.
We’re looking for Engineers who like stretching themselves and working with others to solve complex customer problems. You'll be at the centre of financial innovation, using open banking technologies to improve online payments and allow financial data integration into any app or website.
At a rapidly growing fintech, you'll face new and engaging situations as we scale our products and infrastructure to meet customer demands and expand our ecosystem to create new options. 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 supporting you in developing new skills and advancing your career.
Whether you want to continue to grow your technical know-how 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 99.5% 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 a great place to work. We want our processes and interactions to stay 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:
- 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
We’d be particularly excited if you have:
- Experience working with microservices and distributed systems
- Understanding of asynchronous message-based systems
- Involvement in open-source software development or a technical blog
- Interest in observability and alerting
Benefits and Compensation
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 🧘🏻♀️
- CCNL commercio (contratto collettivo nazionale di lavoro)
Compensation
€38,000–47,750/yr + equity.
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-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.
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What We Do
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.
