Company Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job Description
About the role
We’re looking for an exceptional Engineering Lead to lead our Network Engineering team to be based in London to deliver automated, scalable, stable, and well documented solutions as part of the UT team and in collaboration with other Platform Engineering teams. This is a unique opportunity to bring your ideas and expertise to one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe, to help secure and improve our network infrastructure, and ensure all of our teams stay connected no matter where they are in the world.
Here at Wise UT Network Engineering, we’re working to create a seamless IT experience by offering all the tools people need to do the best work they can, and simultaneously avoid being a speed hump. We have a highly mobile, geographically diverse work environment. Currently we look after network infrastructure where zero trust network access, cloud networking, and automation-driven networking play important roles.
Qualifications
In This Role, You Will
Lead and develop a high-performing network engineering team.
Driving the team’s technical roadmap and contributing to architecture.
Ensure the quality, reliability, and delivery of the team’s systems.
Contribute directly through hands-on coding and architect design.
Manage the performance and wellbeing of the engineers of your team.
Actively participate in the recruitment process and make hiring decisions to grow the team.
Be responsible for the growth of the engineers in the team through feedback and both passive and active coaching.
Ensure the teams' composition is balanced and correctly sized with respect to the roadmap.
Create a culture of ownership inside the team where every engineer is accountable for their work.
Own the technical roadmap of the team, ensuring it addresses important technical debt and any reliability, security or scalability concerns.
Active contributors in the delivery of the team. You support day-to-day execution of work
Guide the team’s technical approach while actively contributing to designing, developing, testing, and deploying features and services to enable money movement capabilities in existing and new Hispanic American markets..
Propose and advocate for high-quality technical designs and solutions that are scalable, reliable, and compliant.
Participate in code and design reviews within your team, providing constructive feedback to maintain and elevate our engineering standards.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including project managers, engineers and technicians in other global teams, and vendors to align on product vision and technical implementation.
Essential skills:
2+ year experiences in leading and managing high-performing engineering teams
Solid in TCP/IP networking, Linux, containerisation and sysadmin skills
Solid programming experience with Go and/or Python
Solid infrastructure automation skills - Terraform and Ansible
Experience in implementing SRE and IaC principles
You take pride in keeping the works organised and the house clean and tidy
You’re passionate about helping others and keen to roll up your sleeves and take ownership to drive company-wide impact
Nice to Have
Good fundamentals in DNS and network security
Experience in AWS networking
If you have experience with other tools or tech stacks not listed, we'd like to hear from you
Additional Information
Interested? Find out more:
What do we offer:
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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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