Senior Software Engineer - Data Streams

About TransferWise

TransferWise was founded in 2011 with a clear mission: Money without borders - so people and businesses can send and receive any currency effortlessly, whenever, wherever.

Sure, the heart of what we do is international money transfer. And we’re committed to making it instant, convenient and fair for millions of people, all over the world. But we’re growing our other products and our teams at an exciting pace.

Position

• Design and develop Messaging as a Service and Stream Processing as a Service that will be used by TransferWise engineers from across the organization
• Build a large scale distributed, scalable, self service platform that can seamlessly handle millions of events per day
• Help relevant product teams to adopt streaming technology and scale their data processing pipelines
• Innovate and collaborate with teams to help them build business critical applications and insights on the real time data infrastructure
• Curate or build reusable blocks to analyze events. Build abstractions and developer tooling that allow engineers to quickly build streaming applications in a self service manner

Your qualification

• You know the difference between ETL and real-time
• You have experience working with stream processing technologies and/or frameworks
• You have years of experience building high performance distributed systems and solving large scale engineering challenges across organization 
• You have expertise in Java, Scala, or other JVM-based languages
• You have worked on and/or have deep understand messaging/queuing systems or stream processing systems such as Apache Kafka 
• You are a good communicator, self-driven and can pitch ideas across company and product teams
• Have experience working with Spring Boot ecosystem and microservices environment 
• You have strong experience with NoSQL and relational databases and know when to use one vs another

Will be a plus

• Experience working with Flink, Samza, Spark Streaming, Storm or Kafka Streams
• You have experience building a self service platform with appropriate developer tooling and abstractions
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Have DevOps skills and aren’t afraid to write some Terraform and Ansible

What we offer

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Choose your own path to success - you’ll have the freedom to define the vision and the responsibility for making it happen
• Be flexible in how and where you work, we understand everyone needs a little something different so we’ll do our best to make it happen 
• Travel to work with our teams in London and Budapest 
• Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starting attitude

Apart from the all-expenses-paid company trips, stock options in one of Europe’s most hotly tipped scaling-up companies , a laptop and team lunches every other Thursday, you won’t get much in the way of extras. However, we will give you 28 days holiday a year (plus public holidays), a fun, friendly atmosphere, plenty of opportunities to grow and the chance to be part of our irreversible change in how money moves across the world.

Not from Estonia? - No stress, we will help you (and your family) with full relocation from any part of the world!