Technical Lead

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

TransferWise is looking for a Technical Lead to join their growing team in Tallinn. The role is a unique opportunity to join one of the fastest growing companies in Europe and to lead one of our engineering areas in helping millions more potential customers save money by using TransferWise.

You’ll receive a competitive package including generous stock options amongst other benefits.

Your mission:

As a Technical Lead you’ll lead one of our product teams. You’ll be expected to give your team members a high level of autonomy while assisting and mentoring them in a number of areas:

• Team health: You’ll be responsible for the overall health and productivity of the engineers within your teams, will help to set the right culture, and implement the right approaches
• Architecture: When your teams are making technical decisions you’ll provide feedback on architecture and approach, and help them make smart decisions about managing debt while creating new features
• Engineering culture: You’ll have an overview of what’s going on across the organisation, and connect up teams and individuals who are working on mutually beneficial projects. You’ll spend time thinking about TransferWise engineering as a whole, how do we continue to scale our team and our systems? What steps to we need to take ensure our team is happy and productive?
• Technical contribution: Working with your teams and solving organisation level challenges will consume a lot of your time, but at times you’ll jump in and help your teams get a project over the line, or help them solve thorny technical challenges

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Choose your own path to success – you’ll have the freedom to define the vision and 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
• Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starter attitude
• Travel to work with our teams in London, Budapest and Singapore (when things get back to normal)

Your qualification

• You’ll have experience in leading, coaching and mentoring, driven and high performing teams. With extensive technical and leadership expertise you’ll lead engineers across multiple teams and locations
• You’ve got experience building and designing scalable and performant systems and making significant contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company
• You’re comfortable working within teams that face big challenges bearing full ownership over the customer journey
• You enjoy creating an inspiring team environment where ideas are shared, and openness is valued
• You’ve worked with Java, Spring framework, asynchronous message queues and have experience with microservices architecture
• Experienced working with SQL databases, query optimisation and transactions

Will be a plus

• Expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and service mesh architectures
• Passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems