Engineering Lead – Western Europe
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About the job
As an Engineering Lead you’ll be heavily involved in the development life-cycle of the solutions provided to the region, from design to coding and testing. Communication and people management plays a big role in this position, too. This means coaching your team, helping them overcome blockers in their work and ensuring a healthy culture for your teams.
Salary range
Preferred application method
English,
Work schedule
Responsibilities
Professional skills
- SQL5 / 5
- Java, Spring4 / 5
Qualifications
Language skills
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Personal skills
Ideal candidate
- A passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems
- Comfortable working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey
- Experience building and designing scalable and performing systems
- Experience working with Java, Spring framework, asynchronous message queues and have worked with microservices architecture
Do not apply, if...
- You don't speak English
- You have no management experience
What you get back
- The ability to choose your own path to success – you’ll have the freedom to define the vision
- The freedom to have real impact
- The opportunity to inspire teams
- A fun work environment with social activities and events
What does success look like?
- You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and look to future challenges
- You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
- You’ll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company
- You’ll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued
About the company
Our story
- 2010-01We were founded with the vision of making international money transfers cheap, fair, and simple.
- 2016-01Over 1M happy customers trust us to move more than $1 billion dollars of their money, every month.
- 2018-10Borderless account launched, allowing customers to hold their money in more than 50 currencies.
- 2021-02We changed our name from "TransferWise" to "Wise" and also celebrated our 10th birthday.
- 2022-01We are 3000+ Wisers strong, helping over 11M customers and businesses save £1bn in fees every year.
Office address
Budapest, Váci út 80, 1133 HungaryWhat makes our product special
Our product
Transfering money at low cost across borders
Wise was founded in 2011 with a clear mission:
Money without borders - instant, convenient, fair and eventually free.
We built Wise cause it solves a problem for hundreds of millions of people. It puts the way money moves back into the hands of ordinary people. We power money for people & businesses - sending, spending and getting paid in any currency, wherever, whenever.
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Company values
Life with us
Lightning round
- Bike, public transport or car?
- Bike ?♀️
- Most proud of
- Diversity
- Average age?
- 29
Trainings and workshops
Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder said the following: "Not trying is a sin, failing is not. Encourage yourself and others to try!"
How can the employees affect the company’s life?
At Wise, ideas emerge from collective brainpower. People are organised in autonomous teams within which we talk through projects, but we use Slack, email, and Google surveys for opinions!
Why we love our office
The Budapest Office has just moved to the busy 13th district close to the Danube. It’s a city of stunning architecture and unrivalled hospitality, and now it’s the newest home to our customer support and engineering teams. Our office is spacious and light aligning with our core value, transparency. We like to show our attitude, too - the new wall decoration says THIS IS A REVOLUTION!
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What would I miss if I left
" I get to do what I love and see how my work can positively impact the customers. I think i would miss this the most."
Isaac Díaz Carpio
Content Lead (SEO)
Favourite thing in the office
Personal qualities we appreciate
If you’re keen to collaborate, learn, grow, try new things and aren’t afraid of a bold plan, you’ll fit right in.
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What we stand for
✔ Customers > Team > Ego
✔ No Drama, Good Karma
✔ Not Just a Job
✔ We get it done
MORE ON THE JOB
At Wise we work in self-sufficient, autonomous teams. Think of them like start-ups within a start-up that learn from each other.
Teams pick the problems they want to solve. There’s no micro-management. No hiding behind fancy job titles. And no one telling you what to do. You're your own boss. But you’ll get tons of guidance & plenty support from talented, super-smart colleagues.
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