Product Solutions Engineer

Description

We’re looking for a Product Solutions Engineer to join our growing team in London. This is a unique opportunity to bring your ideas and expertise to one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe, defining the vision, delivering the plan and leading the team.

At TransferWise we’ve doubled in size in the last 18 months to 1400+ people globally and we continue to grow at breakneck speed. You’ll receive a competitive package including generous stock options and private healthcare amongst other benefits.

Our Product Solutions team helps product teams leverage platform capabilities for customers' benefit by supporting the design, maintenance and scaling of the respective systems. The team provides specialist knowhow and alignment with shared practices and solutions.

Your mission:

• Based within the Product Solutions team, your role will be partnering with one or more product teams in strategic planning, implementing and operating of production systems.  
• With a high level of autonomy, you’ll work closely with your engineers, and make both product and project decisions.

Some of your focus areas will be:

• Long-term evolution of systems architecture in respective product domains
• Helping product teams leverage platform capabilities to build better product
• Support product teams in operational matters

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Choose your own path to success - you’ll have the freedom to define the vision and responsibility for making it happen
• Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starter attitude
• Travel to work with our teams in Tallinn, London, Budapest, New York and Singapore.

A bit about you:

• You understand the value of balancing customer centric thinking and technical skills
• You have worked with distributed systems with at least dozens of components
• You have been responsible for operating business critical information systems
• You put the customer above technology, while finding ways to leverage technology to improve the customer experience
• You've worked with JVM-based systems, preferably Java

Some extra skills that would be awesome:

• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and service mesh architectures
• Experience with the Spring ecosystem
• Site Reliability or DevOps background
• Passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems.

For a sneak peek into our Engineering world and what it’s like to work here check out:

• Product Engineering Principles [****] TransferWise
• How TransferWise works: Your step-by-step guide
• Read about the TransferWise Mission
• From 2 founders to 1000 employees - how we grew into a global community

A bit about TransferWise:Since 2011, we’ve had a clear mission: money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives, we’re the fairest, easiest way to manage your money across borders.We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.Our People:At TransferWise, you’ll be joining a movement of people who believe in a better, fairer, more transparent way of moving money around the world. You’ll collaborate to do your best work and take on problems that no one has looked at before.If you’re keen to learn, grow, try new things and aren’t afraid of a bold plan, you’ll fit right in.How we work:At TransferWise our strategy emerges from the collective brainpower of all our people, who are organised in dozens of independent, autonomous teams. Teams stay closest to our customers, so they choose what problems to solve and where to spend the most time.You’ll experience radical levels of ownership and empowerment within your role. Plus the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on our customers.

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