Company Description
Your Mission At Wise, we are fully devoted to our Mission: Money without borders. Instant, convenient, and eventually free. Over 16 million people and businesses use Wise, which processes over £9 billion in cross-border transactions every month, saving customers over £1.5 billion a year. We serve a wide range of customers from personal users, freelancers, small businesses and increasingly even to large enterprises and banks. Wise also offers over 50 currencies for customers to hold and convert money in.
Job Description
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Lead to lead the Compute team.
The Compute team at Wise is responsible for delivering the foundational platform that enables engineers to effortlessly run and scale workloads via a secure, reliable, highly available, and cost-effective container runtime environment.
As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will own the domain, ensuring the delivery, reliability, availability, and security of our systems while managing the team's well-being, performance, and growth.
In This Role, You Will
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Make an Impact: Work in a cutting-edge, cloud-native environment where your contributions direct the evolution of our platform.
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Champion Autonomy: Cultivate a culture of autonomy by empowering your team to craft and pursue their own innovative goals, aligning with Wise’s commitment to freedom and initiative.
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Inspire Leadership: Use your extensive experience to mentor and inspire your teams, fostering a climate of growth, knowledge-sharing, and proactive problem-solving.
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Expand Leadership Capabilities: Take on a pivotal role in understanding and addressing strategic business challenges while benefiting from a culture that values strategic thinking over micromanagement.
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Shape Strategy & Drive Innovation: Collaborate closely with senior leadership to design and execute the compute strategy. Lead transformative initiatives to streamline processes, enhance system efficiency, and optimize operational costs.
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Elevate Cloud Performance: Spearhead strategies for cloud adoption and optimization, leveraging AWS services to boost system performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Champion security and compliance by ensuring that all cloud operations meet the highest standards of security and regulatory requirements.
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Oversee Internal Product Evolution: Lead the evolution of our internal product offerings, ensuring they align with business needs and empower widespread efficiency and capability within the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management:
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Foster Growth and Collaboration: Lead, mentor, and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team. Cultivate an environment of ongoing learning and innovation.
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Support and Develop: Set clear objectives, provide constructive feedback, and champion the professional development of every team member.
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Collaborate Cross-functionally: Work with diverse teams to align technical strategies with business objectives.
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Drive Architectural Excellence: Guide the evolution of a platform that's secure, resilient, and scalable, enabling Wise to move money without borders.
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Empower Internal Teams: Develop reusable platform components to empower and streamline operations for other engineering teams.
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Enhance Operational Excellence: Be actively involved in initiatives to continuously improve our operational processes.
What We Value in You
We understand that candidates may not meet all criteria and we support ongoing learning and development. If you possess some of the skills listed and are keen to learn more, we want to hear from you!
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Senior Leadership Experience: At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams, with demonstrated success in leading diverse and inclusive teams.
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Strategic Technical Expertise: Extensive experience in designing, building, and scaling microservices and platforms in a cloud-native environment.
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Cloud Platforms: Experience with platforms such as AWS or GCP.
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Modern Infrastructure: Familiarity with Kubernetes and infrastructure automation tools.
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Global Collaboration: Experience working across time zones and successfully managing distributed teams.
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Effective Communication: Strong ability to communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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
- Wise Engineering and Blog.
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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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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!
