Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 16 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.

Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. 

So, we’re building a new one.

We need a Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. 

The SRE team’ mission is to focus on engineering-wide reliability problems at Wise. We set the reliability standard we expect of our hundreds of microservices to achieve, we do this via libraries, tooling, documentation, consulting and hands-on contribution.

As we scale we continue to push our teams to run autonomously. They are closest to our customers, so they’re empowered to prioritise and deliver, without being told what to do by leadership. This means they can move fast and run multiple projects at the same time.

We operate on a strong belief in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. We’re looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the platform tribe.

As we grow, you’ll be working with product and platform teams to tighten the loop between the two, you’ll work to identify potential reliability issues before they impact our customers, and measure our reliability to help teams make data-driven decisions. 

We need to sustain this growth by continuously iterating on the services we run, with a focus on availability, security, and ease of use. We’re looking for a dependable engineer with relevant experience who can evaluate complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence. 

What will you be working on?

• Building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and foundation of the technical parts of Wise
• Ensuring we have our services up and running so product teams can work efficiently
• Understanding our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
• Helping Wise achieve its mission by building on one of the key foundation technology layers at the heart of our platform

What do you need?

• Experience of Incident Management and troubleshooting
• Experience in implementing SRE principles, understand the differences between SLI/SLO/SLAs
• Experience writing clean, reusable code in Java/Python/JavaScript or a similar programming language following good practices.
• Knowledge of architectural concepts such as microservices, service mesh
• You’re passionate about helping others and keen to roll up your sleeves and take ownership to drive company-wide impact

Nice to Have:

• Experience of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP)
• Containerisation technology and orchestration platforms e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Understanding and knowledge of different tiers of storage
• Experience working in regulated business – PCI etc
• Have experience of capacity planning as well as performance and load testing
• Basic sysadmin skills in debugging issues with disk, network, app/JVM performance etc.

• 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
• Find out more about our benefits in our London office.

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• Wise Vlogs: Omar, Engineering Lead
• The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition.
• Our Engineering career map
• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer: 

• Starting salary: £110,000-£150,000 + RSU
• Numerous great benefits in our London office 

Key benefits:

• Flexible working – whether it’s working from home, school plays or life admin we get that flexibility is essential and you’re trusted to do the right thing and be responsible
• Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities
• 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave

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We're people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive. We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work. Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.

Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer's needs and life experiences and makes sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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