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Senior Engineer - Engineering Experience team

Created on 22-05-2019
Location London

Description

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer with strong experience in agile, microservices and testing to join our Engineering Experience team in London.


You will be leading cross-team efforts to identify and drive changes to improve engineers productivity. You’ll provide hands-on help for multiple autonomous teams inside TransferWise to develop and test large distributed systems.



Your mission:


  • Working with other engineers to create and maintain cross-team tools required to increase engineers productivity.
  • Understanding the challenges faced by the different teams in TransferWise, identifying which teams need help to ensure high quality releases.
  • Helping teams to improve their processes and practices, allowing them to gain confidence in their changes, thus enabling fast iteration.
  • Taking ownership of capability programs to empower the teams to solve their own challenges.

You must:


  • Be passionate about helping other engineers and have a company-wide impact.
  • Have many years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Have experience with good testing practices in a microservices architecture.
  • Have deep understanding of good development processes such as Agile and Continuous Delivery.
  • Have strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex and technical concepts across multiple teams.
  • Be willing to travel, to work and learn with dev teams in our offices around the world.
  • Be excited to work in a disruptive, fast-growing and fun environment.

Nice to haves:


  • Have worked with large distributed system.
  • Java background, preferably with Spring Boot.
  • Experience with Kubernetes.

This role will give you the opportunity to:


  • Choose your own path to success - you’ll have the freedom to define the vision and the responsibility for making it happen
  • Be flexible in how and where you work, we understand everyone needs a little something different so we’ll do our best to make it happen
  • Travel to work with our teams in our offices around the world
  • Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starting attitude

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.



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Benefit

All expenses paid company holiday

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Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

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Sauna

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Stock Options

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Table tennis, Xbox and board games

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Team lunch

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