Technical Lead - Observability

Created on 13-03-2019

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Description

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to join our growing team in London or Tallinn. 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.

Observability team in TransferWise makes sure both our employees and customers have visibility into the health of TW systems. As part of Platform Engineering, they contribute to our internal platform offering by providing tooling and frameworks for other engineering teams to meet transaction tracing, application performance analysis, business monitoring and alerting needs.

Your mission:

Your role will be a combination of coaching and leading a talented team of engineers and contributing hands-on yourself
With a high level of autonomy, you’ll work closely with your engineers, to make both product and project decisions.

Some of your focus areas will be:

Building your team: You’ll help your team to work together and bring out individual strengths. Using an agile approach you’ll put in place the structures you feel your team needs and communicate effectively. You’ll play an active part in hiring, onboarding and growing your team to increase your capacity to take on bigger challenges.
Ensuring technical excellence: You’ll be a hands-on engineer who can teach best practice within your team. You’ll play a leading role in technical design as well as project delivery. You’ll help the team with maintaining quality of delivery and take personal ownership of the products the team ships.
Project planning and prioritisation: You’ll help the team focus on the needs of your customers. By understanding those needs you’ll help them determine which projects will be most impactful, and by defining project scope, you’ll help them prioritise and manage their work.
Coaching: You’ll have regular one to ones with your team, helping your engineers to work through both technical and personal challenges. You’ll help them to improve and develop over time, and to meet their personal objectives

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
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
Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starter attitude
Travel to work with our teams in London, Budapest and Singapore.

A bit about you:

You have previous experience of leading and mentoring a team of engineers
You understand the value of balancing customer centric thinking and technical skills and can coach other engineers on both
You're comfortable and confident providing input to other teams' priorities
You enjoy creating an inspiring team environment where ideas are shared, and openness is valued
You have been involved in designing and operating business critical information systems, including 24/7 support

Some extra skills that would be awesome:

Experience with Java applications, AWS, Kubernetes and service mesh architectures
Passion for building and supporting the tooling needed to build better products
Experience with modern practices in logging, service instrumentation, monitoring, alerting etc
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:

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 organized 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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