— strong background with JVM, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud preferably
— experience in Microservices architecture while knowledge of Grails & Groovy will be appreciated as these are currently power all our business logic that’s not extracted into Microservices
— good with MySQL and other database management systems — preferably PostgreSQL
— Kafka will be great to have as most of our messaging is done in Apache Kafka
— Docker, AWS and/or experience with automated testing will be cool things to bring with you
exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD), A/B testing and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approaches & concepts
— sleeping with a copy of “Clean Code” under your pillow, background within AGILE environments (preferably start-ups) and with FinTech stuff are big pluses
— University degree in a technical subject, preferably computer science
— English as a working language
For a sneak — peek into our Engineering world check: tech.transferwise.com
Always a plus:
— Previous experience in a financial institution
— Java experience
— Strong communication skills
— Experience in performance tuning and/or frontend skills
Did someone say benefits?
Apart from all-expenses-paid company days twice a year, stock options in one of Europe’s most hotly-tipped startups, a sexy laptop of your choice and team lunches, you won’t get much in the way of extras.
However, we will give you 24 days holiday a year, a fun, friendly atmosphere, plenty of opportunities to grow and the chance to be part of our little revolution. Oh, and coffee, there’s plenty of coffee.
We’re looking for a programmer rock-star, in their element building a modern financial product from the ground up. Someone to nurture an agile development process, develop cutting-edge software, solve challenging problems and, more importantly, help avoid them!
You’ll get a chance to write code that helps millions of people save money, and push the button on big releases. Faultless and reliable code is the name of the game as you’ll be writing it for a product that deals with transferring millions a day — no pressure. You have tests for it, right?
You love optimization and self-learning new algorithms and you feel right at home in a fast-growing international development team.
The role is truly cross functional, with lots of diverse projects to work on and a great opportunity to shine like the star that you are.
TransferWho?
TransferWise is the clever new way to move money between countries. Co-founded by Skype’s first employee and backed by some of planet’s most experienced innovators, including Sir Richard Branson and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, we’re disrupting the world of currency & international money transfer. That means flipping a gazillion dollar industry on its head and taking power away from banks and the establishment.
We’re currently 350 people strong and handling more millions in customers’ money every day.
TransferWise is a 100% boredom-free zone. If you’re looking for a stuffy financial company, the back button beckons, if you want to be part of something innovative and truly exciting, read on.