Platform Integrations Engineering Lead

What are we looking for? We are looking for an Engineering Lead to join the Platform Integrations team to expand and maintain direct integrations with payments systems and partners all over the world.

What is the Platform Integrations team? The Platform Integrations team sits within our Platform tribe, which designs, builds and operates the foundational direct integration infrastructure that power the product that moves billions of dollars every month.

In Wise, our Platform Engineering Lead position is responsible for leading a specific domain from roadmap through to operation, as well as the people side of the team.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Team

• Design, implement and maintain integrations between Wise and complex financial systems.
• Develop and design scalable and repeatable architecture with complex regulatory requirements.
• Analyse infrastructure to determine inefficiencies and problems, and create automation and optimisation.
• Work and collaborate with our larger platform engineering team and alongside product engineering on globally impactful projects.
• Communicate with various stakeholders throughout Wise, plan roadmaps with your team, and work through challenges to determine scope and realistic delivery.
• Working and collaborating with our larger platform engineering team and alongside product engineering on global projects.
• Work with other Leads to influence the direction and change current technology implementations, as well as advocate for excellence with third parties.
• Leadership & Team Management:
  • Lead, mentor, and manage a high performing engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.
  • Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support professional development for team members.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical initiatives with business goals.
• Infrastructure & Systems Management:
  • Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of robust, scalable, and secure systems and network infrastructures.
  • Ensure high availability and performance of critical systems, both on-premise and in AWS.
  • Develop and enforce best practices for system administration, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• AWS & Cloud Technologies:
  • Drive cloud adoption and optimization strategies, leveraging AWS services to enhance system performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Lead the migration and management of applications and services within the AWS environment.
  • Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements in the cloud.
• Network Engineering:
  • Oversee the architecture and management of enterprise networks, including LAN, WAN, and cloud-based networking solutions.
  • Implement and manage network security measures, such as firewalls, VPNs, and intrusion detection systems.
  • Ensure reliable connectivity and uptime across all network components.
• Strategic Planning & Innovation:
  • Work closely with senior leadership to develop and execute the infrastructure strategy.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending and implementing new tools and technologies as appropriate.
  • Lead initiatives to automate processes, improve system efficiency, and reduce operational costs.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Work in a modern, cloud heavy environment where remote connectivity is a staple of our tech ecosystem
• Choose your path to impact. We believe people and teams are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls
• You’ll be offered the flexibility to decide on how and where you work. We understand everyone needs a little something different, so we’ll do our best to make it happen.
• Approach new challenges with the freedom to develop novel and customised solutions
• You’ll get to inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starter attitude.
• Grow as a lead and engineer - understand what problems the business needs to solve and why, then proactively resolve them. We shy away from micro management
• Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Previous experience leading and managing teams (3-8+ team size) in a fast moving, dynamic environment
• Experience in designing and deploying complex infrastructure on cloud and on-prem (while the organisation as a whole is very cloud-centric, this role will have the unusual requirement to additionally deploy physical solutions when we have no alternative)..
• Experience in making complex deployments repeatable using modern Infrastructure as Code principles and scripting.
• Applying software development principles to infrastructure design and deployment.
• Ability translating business requirements into explainable technical solutions for internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in leading and managing complex technical projects.
• Passion for automation, building and testing the tooling needed to build better products

The following is a list of some of the technologies and vendors we use. It is not an exclusive list nor do we expect you to know everything. But it gives a flavour.

• Java Microservices on Kubernetes
• AWS Networking: VPC, VGW, Transit-GW, Direct-Connect, VPC Peering - SYS & NW
• ELK, Prometheus
• Terraform
• CM tools (e.g: Ansible, Puppet)
• AWX
• Git, with Github
• VPNs (we use IPSec heavily
• Network routing/switching experience on different vendor OS (Cisco, Juniper, Check Point)
• ISP Peering, DataCenter integrations, cross-connects

About You

• You’re a self starter who can run with projects
• You’re hands-on, and willing to own the systems you build as part of an on-call rotation.
• Reliability and scalability are paramount in your solutions
• You recognize the importance of both customer-focus and strong technical skills and can coach other engineers on both
• You're comfortable and confident providing input to other teams' priorities
• Security and privacy by design mindset
• You think about risks and compliance
• You enjoy looking for where you can have impact and upset the norm
• Technical influencer capable of promoting architectural patterns to internal and external stakeholders
• You are comfortable facing new challenges and creating novel and customised solutions
• You’re collaborative, charismatic and have the ability to tailor communication to the audience - both to technical and non-technical people as needed. Effective communication between cross-team stakeholders, peers and leads is key

More about us here:

• A quick rundown of our tech stack and for a sneak peek into the Wise world of Engineering check out our Tech Blog: [https://tech.transferwise.com/>

Additional information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money 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 make sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money 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.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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