Requirements

Solid engineering background with experience delivering and maintaining production solutions
Ability to take initiative while working collaboratively with stakeholders across the business
Strong communication skills tailored to different audiences including senior leadership and compliance teams
Security and privacy advocacy with understanding of principles like least privilege
High coding standards, test coverage best practices, and writing clean, scalable code
Experience deploying microservices to cloud-based systems
Experience designing and implementing distributed and concurrent systems with knowledge of tradeoffs between architecture styles
Experience working closely with product teams to bring ideas into production
Customer-centric mindset driving decision making

Nice to Haves

Passion for technology's relationship with product and user experience
Experience with AWS or other cloud platform infrastructure
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and running containerized workloads
Knowledge or experience with data warehousing, data processing infrastructure, and BI tooling
Interest or knowledge in payment platforms and foreign exchange
Being a customer of Wise

Leading teams that build and maintain a petabyte-scale data lakehouse platform
Guiding engineering leads and senior engineers, shaping multiple analytics platform teams
Ensuring sustainable growth and reliability, security, and operational excellence of data systems
Balancing holistic ecosystem design with hands-on implementation and automation
Maintaining observability and service management with focus on high availability
Problem-solving complex project delivery using agile and traditional methodologies
Mentoring junior leaders and engineers, fostering a culture of regular feedback
Owning vendor negotiations and cost explanations to the business