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 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.

• 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.

• 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 remote-working budget to help set up your home office
• Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard
• Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure
• Enhanced pension contribution at 4% & 4%
• Private Health Insurance from the day you start
• 12 fully-paid Wellbeing Days a year (on top of the holiday allowance)
• Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill
• £1,000 to spend on learning & development each year

• Experience working in any common backend language/framework such as Rust, .NET, Java and 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.

• 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.

About our hiring process

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.