Staff Software Engineer, Wise

• We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!
• Experience writing clean, reusable code in Go, Java or Python
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines with knowledge of how to use them to automate the SDLC in line with CI/CD best practices
• An understanding of the role testing plays in managing change risk and experience designing and implementing a test strategy in line with best practices
• Experience of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP)
• Experience of containerisation technology and orchestration platforms e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of architectural concepts such as microservices, service mesh
• Understand SRE principles, scaling and resiliency for various Platform service offerings
• A broad range of skills and knowledge with a deep understanding of certain domains
• You’re passionate about helping others and keen to roll up your sleeves and take ownership to drive company-wide impact

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with a passion for building and scaling services and systems to join the Developer Enablement Squad
• Though the role is focused on the SDLC (scalable, efficient and secure), we work closely with other squads (Security, Reliability, Cloud Platform, Data) to work on important engineering-wide challenges
• The Developer Enablement Squad’s mission is to enable engineers to ship at the speed of a startup, with the security of a bank
• We provide tools, frameworks and best practices that engineers use to build, test and deploy their code, as well as manage the product lifecycle of their services
• At Wise we expect our Staff Engineers to have a deep understanding of the technology we use, an ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, and mentor and coach other engineers and teams
• This role has the potential to improve the experience of every Wise customer by improving the speed and security with which we put new functionality in their hands
• Projects that have significant impact on the developer experience of engineers, focusing on increasing flow state, reducing cognitive load and faster feedback loops
• Building and advising on the infrastructure, tooling, and foundation of the technical parts of Wise
• Deepening CI/CD systems & their integrations across an organisation so that product teams can work efficiently
• Understand our internal customers and the impact our service offerings makes in their lives
• Keeping security and compliance-first mindset in the products we develop, and make this easily consumable by Engineering