Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Experience

Company Description

Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 16 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.

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.

We need a senior software engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. You’ll dive right into projects related to our engineering insights and productivity metrics, helping to drive, design and build the solutions that will have the biggest impact for Wise and our engineers.

Job Description

We are looking for a senior software engineer with a passion for enabling engineers to be their best.

Our team, Engineering Experience, is part of the Developer Enablement Squad.

We focus on engineers and try to make continual improvements in 2 areas: productivity and culture. Those are pretty vague concepts, so let’s break them down:

• On productivity, our vision is “Empowering teams to ship at the speed of a startup, with the security and compliance of a bank”; we want to get to the point where our engineers have a rock solid platform and seamless team collaboration, where they can iterate quickly and ship impactful changes with confidence.

• Culture is about how we work together to build a sustainable work environment where engineers can thrive. United in our dedication to quality, every idea and tool becomes a step towards new milestones. Our shared ambition fosters an inspiring engineering environment, where we don't just engineer software, we create an environment to shape the future engineering of Wise .

Even for the areas which seem like they aren’t software engineering problems, we believe engineers bring a unique perspective, and there are almost always things which can be helped by an engineering solution!

How we work

We operate on a strong belief in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. We’re looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the platform tribe.

As we grow, the complexity of the organisation grows and it gets harder to move at the speed of a startup. We need to sustain this growth by continuously iterating on the services we run, with a focus on availability, security, and ease of use. We’re looking for an engineer with relevant experience who can understand complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence.

What will you be working on?

• Engineering insights is what provides leads with valuable information on where to invest and our engineering pulse. 

• Contributing in user research sessions with Engineers throughout the company. Gathering and taking action on insights to pave the future of engineering in Wise.

• The developer portal is the home and landing page for our hundreds of engineers daily. We are building what helps them, what needs their attention and to build a thriving engineering culture and ecosystem.

• Exactly what you’ll be doing day to day will vary, as our team looks at the big picture challenges we see across all of engineering!

Qualifications

• You have interest in working in a DevEx team or similar developer enabling environment.

• You must be a proficient engineer with a passion for deriving insights and metrics to enhance developer experience through a data-oriented approach.

• You are adept at creating data pipelines and dashboards, extracting insights, and identifying signals that could significantly impact our mission.

• You’re motivated by understanding engineers, pain points, frustrations, needs, and wants of others and have a desire to significantly improve productivity, culture and how much they love working here.

• You are a senior engineer and comfortable in Java or Go.

• You have experience working with relational (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases - but you do not need to be an expert.

• You love automated testing and understand the testing pyramid and trade offs between the layers.

You get back:

• The ability to choose your own path to success – you’ll have the freedom to define the vision 

• The freedom to have real impact

• The opportunity to inspire teams 

• A fun work environment with social activities and events

• Find out more about our benefits in our London office.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide

• Wise Vlogs: Omar, Engineering Lead

• The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition.

• Our Engineering career map

• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer: 

• Starting salary: £80,000-£115,000 + RSU

• Company Restricted Stock Units

• Numerous great benefits in our London office 

Key benefits:

• Flexible working – whether it’s working from home, school plays or life admin we get that flexibility is essential and you’re trusted to do the right thing and be responsible

• Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities

• 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave

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.

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