Senior Software Engineer [Rust]

TrueLayer is Europe’s fastest-growing Pay by Bank network. We power smarter, safer and faster payments by combining real-time bank payments with financial and identity data. E-commerce, iGaming and Financial Services businesses use our products to onboard new users, accept money and make payouts in seconds, and at scale. Live across 22 countries and with 1 new user joining TrueLayer’s Pay by Bank network every 3 seconds, we’re in a very exciting growth stage. This is why we’re expanding the team across our offices in London, Milan, and Dublin.

Listed in Sifted as one of the 100 fastest growing start-ups in UK & Ireland, and CNBC’s World Top Fintech Companies, we’re trusted by industry leaders like RyanAir and Just Eat Takeaway for continued innovation within our payment products. To date, we’ve raised over $300 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Northzone, and Tencent. But this is just the beginning.

We’re looking for people who are excited about joining the Pay by Bank revolution and helping us change the way the world pays. Could this be you? 

• 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.

• Become a proficient user of our platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, etc) and our tools (Rust and .NET ). Training will be available to fill in any gaps in your current knowledge 
• Partner with your Engineering Manager and Product Manager to size and break down requirements for new features and product efforts 
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Employ design patterns, testing and automation to ensure fast and safe iteration cycles. Use your knowledge to coach your teammates and level up the whole engineering organisation 
• Play an active role in our incident response. Support the Incident Lead by taking ownership of investigation and service recovery for the areas of our platform under your responsibility 
• Contribute to cross-team technology efforts by joining our engineering guilds
• Role model our values and help make sure TrueLayer remains an exceptional place to work

• Experience building distributed systems in any common backend 
  language/framework such as Rust, .NET, Java, and Go
• Thorough 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 both SQL and NoSQL data technologies
• Understanding of microservice architecture and its associated challenges
• Familiarity with testing best practices — TDD, unit testing and integration testing, etc
• Experience with 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.

• 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  🧘🏻‍♀️

1. A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners.
2. A take-home exercise Software Engineering Challenge.
3. 2-hour video interview with two TrueLayer engineers.
4. 1.5-hour total final round video interviews.