Lead Java Developer

Description

Java Developer - Product Engineer

TransferWise is a VC-backed, international money transfer start-up co-founded by Skype’s first employee and backed by some of planet's most experienced innovators, including Sir Richard Branson and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, we're disrupting the world of currency & international money transfer. That means flipping a gazillion dollar industry on its head using only real exchange rates and tiny non-hidden-fee. Headaches averted, revolution sparked.

Are you up to building a modern international financial institution from the ground up, but better than any of the existing global banks? We are looking for a number of Product Engineers to join our Tallinn office. As a Full Stack Product Engineer you will have solid experience with the full stack of web technologies. You will be hands on within the technology and working towards making our product the best that it can be by solving the challenges that we face. However our flat organisational structure means you'll be someone who is unconcerned with titles and hierarchy. What really excites you is problem solving and delivering innovative technology and products that create happy customers.

You will collaborate with product managers, UX and design experts, data scientists and other developers to work towards one unified goal - growth. There are a number of teams that we are currently looking for awesome developers to join in Tallinn, you will be applying for all and throughout your journey with us you will get to find out about them all!

As part of the a Product-Engineering team, you'll be making sure that the user journey is as precise and delightful as it can be. You'll join a great team that is customer focussed to it’s core.

Product engineers only

Here at TransferWise we don’t hire coders, who pick up tickets from a backlog and push code to production.

We hire engineers that empathise with our customers problems, develop solutions and measure results.  We’re proud of engineering team - it's built an incredible product that’s changing the world.  They operate autonomously within their teams, focussing relentlessly on our customers.

Must haves:

• Passionate about technology and its relationship with business and user experience.
• Ability to work independently and plan your own solutions to problems.
• Possess empathy for the user and able to build great code that drives fantastic user experience.
• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Be willing to travel, to work and learn with dev teams in Estonia and Ukraine.
• Excitement to work in a high-growth startup, and throw themselves fully into a revolution.
• Be open, communicative, and fun to work with.
• Several years of developer experience (preferable in Java and JVM languages)
• High coding standards (TDD, Clean Code)
• Experience in performance tuning
• Passion for making a difference

Nice to haves:

• Be a customer of TransferWise
• Good front-end skills and eye for good UX 

Benefits:

Apart from the all-expenses-paid company trips, stock options in one of Europe’s most hotly tipped startups, a laptop and team lunches every other Thursday, you won’t get much in the way of extras. However, we will give you 28 days holiday a year (plus public holidays), a fun, friendly atmosphere, plenty of opportunities to grow and the chance to be part of our little revolution. Oh, and coffee, there’s plenty of coffee.

Not from Estonia? - No stress, we will help you (and your family) with full relocation from any part of the world!