Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Job Description

At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyoneso weve made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at peoples fingertips. At TrueLayer, were building a global open banking platform thats changing how money moves and somuch more. We make payments and refunds instant, account data accessible and verification seamlessall so innovators in every industry can build better financial experiences for their users.To date, weve raised $270 million from world-renowned investorsincluding Stripe, Tiger Global, Addition and Tencent. Weve got offices in London, Milan, Dublin and Sydney. And were trusted by industry leaders like Revolut, Cazoo and Trading 212 though were not stopping here.Our vision is a financial system that worksfor everyone. To make that happen, were creating original and innovative products that will remove the friction from finance for good. Were seriously scaling our infrastructure, were entering new territories all the time, were cornering a whole new category and wed like your help to get us there.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 wantyou to know that the things that make you, youlike your age, background and identityare things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe in what you do.*About the role:*Were looking for Engineers who love learning new things andworking with others to solve complex customer problems. Youll be at the heart of financial innovation, using industry-disrupting technologies like open banking to revolutionise online payments, and enable financial data to be integrated into any app or website.Workingat a rapidly growing fintech, youll encounter new and exciting challenges as we scale our products and infrastructure to meet the demands of our customers, and expand our ecosystem to open up new possibilities. Guided by our Engineering Principles, youllcollaborate on the design, implementation, delivery and operation of our productsin short: youll build it, youll run it!In addition to working with modern development frameworks and cloud technologies, we are committed to helping you develop new skillsand 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.***Our challenges:** We want to continuouslyiterate 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 uponas 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 theopportunity, the guidance and the support to develop their technical and core skills to the fullest within the organisation***Requirements:*What we expect from you, as a Software Engineer:* Experience working in any common backend language/framework such as.NET, Java, Rust 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* Understandingof microservice architecture, its advantages and associated challenges* Familiarity with testing best practicesTDD, unit testing and integration testing. How/when to apply them* Interest in observability and alerting in mission-critical distributed systems***Wedbe particularly excited if you have:** Experience with lambda architecture (near real time and long-term data pipelines)* 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-* Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company* Flexible hours and hybrid workingwork from home and our incredible offices in London Milan Sydney and Dublin* A £150remote-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 healthinsurance from the day you start* 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year(on top of the holiday allowance)* Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill* £1,000to 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 dont 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 sortsof 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, youlike your age, ability, background and identityare things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe inwhat you do (And know what an API is).*Our hiring process typically consists of four stages:** A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners* A take-home Software Engineering challenge* 1-hour video interview with two TrueLayers engineers* 2-hour totalfinal round video interviewMicroservices, C#, .NET, Kubernetes.NET, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, APIs