Requirements

Solid engineering background with experience in production and maintenance of solutions
Ability to take initiative while working collaboratively and empathetically with stakeholders
Excellent communication skills, adaptable to different audiences including leadership, Compliance, Security, and Privacy teams
Security and privacy advocate with understanding of principles such as least privilege and infrastructure/application level security
High coding standards, knowledge of test coverage best practices and test pyramid concept
Experience deploying microservices to cloud-based systems
Experience designing and implementing distributed and concurrent systems, with knowledge of stateful/stateless and synchronous/asynchronous architectures
Experience working with product teams to build ideas into production
Customer-focused mindset driving decision-making

Nice to Haves

Passion for technology and its relationship with product and user experience
Experience with platform infrastructure such as AWS or other cloud ecosystems
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads
Knowledge or experience with data warehousing, data processing infrastructure, and BI tooling
Knowledge or interest in payment platforms and foreign exchange
Being a customer of Wise

Leading teams building and maintaining a data lakehouse platform enabling use of petabyte-scale data
Guiding sustainable growth of critical data functions and leading engineering leads and senior engineers
Shaping multiple teams across the analytics platform
Ensuring reliability, security, operational excellence, and high availability of systems
Collaborating holistically on ecosystem design and driving automation and reusable design
Running and maintaining services with focus on observability and reducing engineering load
Negotiating vendor contracts and explaining costs to the business
Providing mentorship and fostering a culture of regular feedback
Problem-solving from scratch and guiding teams through complex project deliveries using agile and traditional methods
Communicating effectively to build consensus and advocate for team approaches