Wise
Fintech
SrEngineeringTeamLead-Data-Platform
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“Sr Engineering Team Lead - Data - Platform at Wise. Skills: Database Reliability Engineering, Platform engineering, Team leadership, System design, Cloud services. Well-being of the team. Coaching, mentoring and growing a high-performing team”
What You'll Achieve.
Making things better for all customers
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving; Guiding engineering teams through the complexities of project delivery
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Solid background in development, ideally within the Python or Java ecosystems, Upholding high coding standards, Thorough understanding of system design and engineering principles, Expertise in leveraging cloud services from providers like AWS or GCP, Used platform engineering skills to develop robust, scalable, and efficient infrastructure, Knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL database technologies, Comprehensive understanding of key concepts such as high availability, scalability, and security, Experience of creating a culture of operational excellence, Knowledge of and/or experience in leading a service reliability engineering team
Nice to Have
Passion for technology and its relationship with product and user experience, Security and privacy advocate, understanding concepts such as principle of least privilege, Able to apply basic security principles at infrastructure and application level, Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Packer), Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Experience with containers (Docker), Experience with container and job orchestration (Kubernetes), Experience of workflow orchestration solutions such as Temporal, Cadence, or AWS step functions, Customer is at the heart of everything you do and this empathy drives all decisions you make, Ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences, Knowledge/interest in payment platforms, foreign exchange & highly complex systems, Be a customer of Wise
What You'll Do.
Well-being of the team
mentoring and growing a high-performing team
Bringing value by working on high-impact solutions
Occasional hands-on involvement as a software engineer and systems operator
Bringing senior engineering expertise into building solutions
Directly affect database technologies and automation strategy
scalability and reliability
Building production systems that are ultimately making things better for all customers
Problem-solving and guiding engineering teams through the complexities of project delivery
Taking ownership of vendor negotiations
Explaining costs to the business
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborating with other leads, engineers, product managers in the wider organisation; Engaging effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve goals
Communication Scope
Excellent communicator; Engaging effectively with cross-functional teams; Presenting to the wider organisation; Articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Process & Methodology
Agile methodologies, Traditional methodologies
Full Job 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 lives 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](https://wise.jobs/our-mission) and [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer). About the team: Database Reliability Engineering team! For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B. Yet behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies, routes, products and features, generating terabytes of data each day. Database Reliability Engineering is at the core and provides databases as service for the rest of the business, working with the Database Platform team to manage our vast estate of database technologies and solutions. As an Engineering Lead in the wider Platform tribe and Engineering organisation, you will have an opportunity to directly affect database technologies and automation strategy, scalability and reliability, building production systems that are ultimately making things better for all customers. What you will be working on? * You will be responsible for the well-being of the team, coaching, mentoring and growing a high-performing team in bringing value by working on high-impact solutions. * You will support the team with occasional hands-on involvement as a software engineer and systems operator, bringing senior engineering expertise into building solutions. * You’ll be collaborating with other leads, engineers, product managers in the wider organisation. * 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 analytics, engineering and business! What will you be working on? * Y
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