Software Engineer, Teller
£60-100k
2+ days a week in office
API for bank accounts
Job no longer available
API for bank accounts
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-100k
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build APIs that enable developers to safely and reliably connect their apps with their users' financial accounts.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive in environments that afford you with high levels of responsibility and autonomy
- You hold yourself and those you work with to high standards
- You want to fulfil your potential to its fullest, grow as a developer and as a person to be the best you that you can be
- You don’t look for excuses for why something can’t be done, you are the person who finds the way it can be done
- If a skill that you don’t possess is required to complete a task you’re the kind of person who goes off and learns enough to get it done
- You behave like an owner. You take total responsibility for what you work on and think of the bigger picture like a product manager would
- You are results oriented and have a strong distaste for shaving yaks
- You are a persuasive communicator. You are both succinct and direct. You are clear about what you are doing, why, and what you expect of others
- You have strong opinions, weakly held, and the humility to change your mind according to the evidence as it presents itself
- You can demonstrate rare talent in the field of functional programming and you want to learn Elixir
What the job involves
- Software Engineers are expected to rapidly develop into Product Engineers responsible for everything from building the dashboards, onboarding flows, and billing through to building the API itself
Application process
- Zoom screen
- Remote software engineering test (must be done in Elixir)
- In-person pairing test
- Final stage interview
Our take
Teller is a fully transactional banking API for your existing bank account. Its API enables developers to build applications that connect with their users’ bank accounts in a manner that is much more times reliable, predictable, performant, and fair than anything else available.
This seems like something that should be a solved problem in the present but before Teller, the state of the art was to rely on antiquated techniques such as screen-scraping online banking HTML pages. Of course, these pages were never designed for this so it’s no surprise that anything using this approach is hopelessly broken.
Banks do have real APIs. Externally facing APIs are necessary for their apps to work, they would just rather you don’t have access to them. Teller aims to reverse engineer these apps to discover their secret API contracts and then implement clients for them. Teller's approach has enabled it to deliver a solution that is a 100x improvement and has led to promising early funding which will help boost the company going forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2020
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $4m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Dan Palmer
(Co-Founder)Previously worked for 2 years at Velti, first as a Software Developer and then as a Senior Software Engineer.
Stevie Graham
(Co-Founder)Previously worked for 1 year as the first EU employee for Twillio - an API platform for communications.
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