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 We’re on a mission to take on outdated payment methods with a solution designed for today’s online, on-demand economy.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
First impressions are crucial. The Experience Design team (XD) owns TrueLayer’s public website, and the team is responsible for a lot of people’s first impressions of the brand. As TrueLayer scales at lightning speed across the world, the number of first impressions we’re responsible for grows by the day. Our job is to create fresh, immersive and captivating experiences that communicate what we do and how we’re changing the way the world pays. To engage users no matter who they are or what language they speak.
As a Web Developer, your long-term goal will be to build a best-in-class, award-winning B2B site that reflects TrueLayer’s status as an innovative payments company: one that is visually stunning, performant, accessible and technically correct at every level. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and we know we have a long way to go, so we need your help to build the culture of collaboration, continual improvement and engineering excellence that will get us there.
You will also have the opportunity to align with other peers in the XD team, collaborate with researchers, designers, copywriters and marketers, gain familiarity with the latest tools, processes and technologies, as well as contributing to and using a brand new, cutting-edge Design System we’ve built in-house.
Our technology stack:
- React
- Gatsby
- CSS-in-JS
- Jest / Testing Library / Cypress
- Storyblok (CMS)
What we expect from you as a Web Developer:
- Develop, expand and maintain the website using ReactJS, Typescript, HTML/CSS
- Work with cross-functional squads of designers, researchers, copywriters and marketers to scope & shape pages & features, advising on best practices and feasibility
- Transform Figma mock-ups into beautifully coded online pages & features
- Plan & prioritise initiatives and projects on a quarterly basis in accordance with business need and company strategic objectives
- Ensure all new code is covered with unit and integration tests
- Maintain and administer our CMS integration, being a point of contact and support on for marketing teams on publishing, enablement and ensuring smooth day-to-day operation.
- Monitor and continually optimise frontend performance, ensuring speedy load times
- Setup analytics integrations, configure events, and maintain dashboards
- Ensure compliance with relevant e-privacy laws, configure compliance integrations
- Ensure adherence to best practices in accessibility, localisation and technical SEO
- Test changes across multiple browsers and devices, and debug as necessary
About you:
- Experience building modern websites
- Experience working with and integrating a Headless CMS
- Strong experience with Gatsby, GraphQL, Typescript, and React
- Experience with cross-browser compatibility and accessibility issues
- Experience with API integration
- Understanding of UX/UI design
- Experience working with design systems
- Familiarity with technical SEO best practice
- Experience working with Google analytics, webmaster tools etc.
- Experience optimising for performance, core web vitals, etc.
- A user-first attitude, always
- A data-driven approach to making decisions and backing up assertions
- Ability to evaluate, and implement various testing methods depending on the situation
- Familiarity with usability testing methods
- A drive to create processes to stay aligned with the overall XD org
We would be particularly excited if you have:
- Experience with data visualisation projects
- Experience with web animation (Motion One, Framer motion, GSAP, etc)
Don’t meet all the requirements?
Multiple studies have shown that women and people of underrepresented groups are sometimes less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At Truelayer, we are committed to building a diverse workforce, so if you are excited about this role and have the essential skills, but not the entire checklist - we’d still love to hear from you!
Benefits
What you can expect from us:
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company 💰
- Flexible hours and hybrid working — work from home 🏡 and our incredible 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 [IT Roles Only]
- 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)
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.
- 1-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.
Top Skills
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.
