Full Stack Engineer - Developer Experience

Job Description

At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone — so we've made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at people's fingertips. As an API platform, TrueLayer deeply cares about its developer experience. With our product offering continuing to grow, our Developer Experience team is dedicated to creating a cohesive, feature-rich platform experience for developers to integrate with and manage our products.

We’re looking for a curious and innovative full-stack engineer to join our Developer Experience team and build end-to-end experiences that delight our users. Working in a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers and designers, you’ll be creating solidly-coded, elegant products which will contribute to the growth of our platform as we scale globally.

In addition to working with modern development frameworks and cloud technologies, we are committed to helping you develop new skills and advance in your career. Whether you want to continue to grow your technical expertise or move into leadership, we have clear and tangible paths for everyone, irrespective of your level of experience, role or discipline.

Who we are:

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.

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, Dublin and Sydney. And we’re trusted by industry leaders like Revolut, Cazoo and Trading 212… though we’re not stopping here.

Our vision is a financial system that works for everyone. To make that happen, we’re creating original and innovative products that will remove the friction from finance for good. We’re seriously scaling our infrastructure, we’re entering new territories all the time, we’re cornering a whole new category — and we’d like your help to get us there.

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will:

• Develop new services which empower our customers with the features they need to onboard, build, use and manage our products from the TrueLayer console
• Define and build critical architecture that scales as we roll-out our customer onboarding platform worldwide
• Work in our cross-functional Developer Experience team, collaborating with world-class Designers, Engineers and Product Managers to deliver developer-facing features across the TrueLayer platform
• Own new product features, developing iteratively and shipping to production daily
• Collaboratively iterate on the design and implementation of our products
• Lead code reviews and provide guidance to junior engineers to maximise their potential and growth
• Help shape our engineering culture and help make sure TrueLayer remains an exceptional place to work

Requirements

We need you to demonstrate one/both of:

• Experience building and styling responsive cross-browser web applications with React
• Experience building APIs in any backend programming language (we use C# .NET core & Rust)

As well as:

• A keen eye for good user experience
• Understanding of SOLID principles and software development best practices
• Ability to evaluate, and implement various testing strategies depending on the situation
• Familiarity with observability and alerting within mission-critical distributed systems
• A drive to continually improve processes, code quality and enjoyment within the team

We’d be especially excited to hear from you if you:

• Have used end to end testing tools such as Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer or Selenium
• Have some understanding of of Protocol Buffers, gRPC, message queue systems or event driven architecture
• Are experienced with device testing (e.g BrowserStack)
• Familiarity with web accessibility guidelines and best practice

Compensation

£55,000/yr - £75,000/yr + Equity

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 🇮🇹 Sydney 🇦🇺 and Dublin 🇮🇪
• A £150 remote-working budget to help you 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 📚
• £500 per quarter (outside of required business travel) to visit our hub cities around the world 🌍

Inclusion & Diversity

At TrueLayer, we embrace people that have different perspectives and personalities. 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. So we want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your age, background and identity — are things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe in what you do.

About our Hiring Process

Our hiring process typically consists of four stages:

Full details on the interview process, including preparation tips and the qualities we look for in future TrueLayeristas, can be found on our blog.