TransferWise is a VC-backed, international money transfer
start-up 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 using only real exchange rates and tiny
non-hidden-fee. Headaches averted, revolution sparked.
Are you up to building a modern international financial
institution from the ground up, but better than any of the existing
global banks? We are looking for a number of Product Engineers to join
our London office. As a Full Stack Product Engineer you will have solid
experience with the full stack of web technologies. You will be hands on
within the technology and working towards making our product the best
that it can be by solving the challenges that we face. However our flat
organisational structure means you'll be someone who is unconcerned with
titles and hierarchy. What really excites you is problem solving and
delivering innovative technology and products that create happy
customers.
You will collaborate with product managers, UX and design
experts, data scientists and other developers to work towards one
unified goal - growth. There are a number of teams that we are currently
looking for awesome developers to join in London, you will be applying
for all and throughout your journey with us you will get to find out
about them all!
As part of the a Product-Engineering team, you'll be making
sure that the user journey is as precise and delightful as it can be.
You'll join a great team that is customer focussed to it’s core.
Product engineers only
Here at TransferWise we don’t hire coders, who pick up tickets from a backlog and push code to production.
We hire engineers that empathise with our customers problems,
develop solutions and measure results. We’re proud of engineering team -
it's built an incredible product that’s changing the world. They
operate autonomously within their teams, focussing relentlessly on our
customers.
Must haves:
- Passionate about technology and it’s relationship with business and user experience.
- Ability to work independently and plan your own solutions to problems.
- Experience using a back-end MVC Framework in a dynamic language, preferably Java / Spring Boot
- Experience developing in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience developing in a modern front end framework,
Angular.js is preferred, but experience with Backbone, Ember, Knockout
or React is also relevant.
- Experience working with SQL databases, writing custom queries and designing schemas.
- Understanding of test driven development (TDD), the ability to
structure your code so it’s testable, and the desire to write tests.
- Broad understanding of the concept of minimum viable product and conversion rates.
- Possess empathy
- for the user and able to build great code that drives fantastic user experience.
- Strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Be willing to travel, to work and learn with dev teams in Estonia and Ukraine.
- Excitement to work in a high-growth company, and throw themselves fully into a revolution.
- Be open, communicative, and fun to work with.
Nice to haves:
- Understanding of Scrum and Agile development
- Experience using database abstraction layers like Hibernate.
- Be a customer of TransferWise
Benefits:
Apart from the all-expenses-paid company trips, stock options
in one of Europe’s most hotly tipped startups, a laptop and team lunches
every Friday, you won’t get much in the way of extras. However, we will
give you 25 days holiday a year (plus public holidays), 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.
Please just let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of our recruitment process. You can email us on jobs@transferwise.com
Some important stuff we would like you to know
To meet our regulatory obligations as a
licensed financial services company, TransferWise needs to take
background checks on all new hires, which may include Criminal and
Credit checks. Please discuss with the Recruiter if you have any
concerns regarding this process.
We want to make sure that our recruitment process is accessible to all, please let us know by emailing us at jobs@transferwise.com if you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage in the recruitment process. Or you can mention this in your application.
