Wise

Finance / FinServ

SrSoftwareEngineer-Reliability

£88–111k london, england, united kingdom FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Sr Software Engineer - Reliability at Wise. Skills: Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, microservices, Kubernetes, cloud-based architecture. identifying and implementing reliability improvements to our most important business services. Enhance the reliability, performance, and compliance of Wise products for customers”

Industry & Context.

Finance / FinServ
Problems you'll solve

analyse complex requirements and deliver simple solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

A product engineering background, collaboration skills, an ability to jump into projects with limited context and be enthusiastic about influencing how teams prioritise reliability, experience working with microservices in a Kubernetes, cloud-based architecture, Hands-on Software Engineering experience (Java or other backend languages), applying reliability best practices (development, resiliency patterns, observability), Hands-on experience with troubleshooting Application, Database, Data related issues, prioritisation skills, effective time management

What You'll Do.

identifying and implementing reliability improvements to our most important business services

Enhance the reliability

and compliance of Wise products for customers

Bridge the gap between Product and Platform through collaboration

hands-on contribution

and co-ordinating org-wide efforts

optimise the performance of our critical backend microservices

implementing and improving the common libraries used by teams across Wise

Develop and implement org-wide

resilient strategies in code

to address challenges in capacity

performance and redundancy

Deep-dive with teams into their services

suggest best practices

implement changes to improve reliability

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

work cross-functionally with software engineering teams across the business; collaboration; co-ordinating org-wide efforts; collaboration skills; Deep-dive with teams into their services

Process & Methodology

prioritisation skills, effective time management

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). More about our mission. About the role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Reliability Engineering team at Wise. You will work cross-functionally with software engineering teams across the business, identifying and implementing reliability improvements to our most important business services. Our team's mission: Enhance the reliability, performance, and compliance of Wise products for customers. Bridge the gap between Product and Platform through collaboration, hands-on contribution, and co-ordinating org-wide efforts. How we work We operate on a strong belief in automation and reusable design. We’re looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, design scalable solutions, and follow through on implementation, drawing on the resources across the rest of the Platform tribe. As Wise scales, the reliability expectations for our products continue to increase. To sustain the growth, we must continuously iterate on the services we run, with a focus on availability and customer experience. We’re looking for an engineer with relevant expertise who can analyse complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help product teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence. What will you be working on? * Identify opportunities to optimise the performance of our critical backend microservices, by implementing and improving the common libraries used by teams across

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