Company Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their life easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission.
Job Description
About the role
At Wise, we're not just developing a product; we're redefining the financial landscape. As a Software Engineer in the Connect team, you will be at the heart of this transformation, entrusted with complex, critical tasks that play a direct role in the way Wise’s (hundreds of distributed) microservices communicate and discover each other, and how requests get proxied to the correct destination. You’ll be leading work that has a direct impact on the scalability of our services, and be a technical mentor for your peers.
Specifically, our team:
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Develops and operates Wise’s Envoy-based service mesh on top of Kubernetes and an in-house built control plane
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Owns the primary routing points for public or non-public connections into and out of Wise’s infrastructure
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Implements and maintains tooling that provides workload identity, encryption and network connectivity controls
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Provides secret management solutions for the Kubernetes clusters
How we work
Ensuring the lowest money transfer fees and timely transactions means we operate with a strong belief of reducing toil, iterative implementation and reusable design, all while prioritising reliability, security, and maintainability.
Our team structure encourages practical collaboration across disciplines such as security and observability, streamlining communication and process integration. We are committed to continuous learning, and value creative problem solving, curiosity and drive for making things better. We never work in isolation, and collaborate towards the best possible technical solutions that directly support our customers' needs and the company's mission.
What will you be working on?
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Help drive complex initiatives that scale, maintain and evolve a variety of backend and infrastructure services, from the service mesh to our secret management service, across multiple environments
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Reduce complexity and toil by identifying bottlenecks and improving system efficiency
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Ensure critical system upgrades and maintenance
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Run our infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes in AWS
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Participate in a team on-call rotation
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Collaborate with the security team on strengthening our security posture
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Mentor teammates and work closely with the Staff engineer on the team's technical roadmap.
What do you need?
We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!
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Proficient in Go
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Production experience of building, operating, and scaling microservices in a cloud environment such as AWS or GCP.
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Good working knowledge of Linux and a scripting language such as Bash
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Experience with infrastructure and distributed systems, and a desire to learn
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Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes (preferred) or Nomad
Nice to have:
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Experience with other object languages such as Java is a plus
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Experience with data intensive applications and high availability
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Familiarity or interest in networking
Interested? Find out more:
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The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition.
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Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
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Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering
What do we offer:
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Starting salary: £80,000-102,000 + RSU
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Wise Benefits
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Additional Information
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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What We Do
We’re making a positive, irreversible change in the world of finance. Together.
People on every continent around the world are choosing Wise to help them live, travel and work internationally. We’re the fairest, easiest way to send money overseas.
Built by and for people who live global lives, we make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. This is money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.
For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B, but behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies and routes, that’s being designed, built and powered by our talented teams in cities around the world.
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.
Why Work With Us
We are a mission-driven company, looking to change banking for the better. Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So, we’re building a new one. If you're looking for an autonomous work environment, where you'll face cool challenges, learn and grow, you'll like working at Wise
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Here at Wise we have a hybrid working model – a mix of working from home and from the office. Wisers can also work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to!
