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    Engineering Manager - London, United Kingdom - Wise

    Wise
    Wise London, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    About the role

    We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Database Platform team.

    The Database Platform team is a software engineering team that has the mission to provide a unified, self-service interface, and API-driven control plane that enhances our cloud hosted database systems, ensuring each technology is seamlessly integrated within our platform.

    The Database Platform team works closely with the Database Reliability Engineering team, and collectively these teams are responsible for our operational database storage solutions, including MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB & Redis, supporting operations at the petabyte scale with billions of queries processed daily.

    As an Engineering Manager, you will collaborate closely with Engineers, Product Managers and Leads, representing the team within the wider Data Squad, Platform Tribe and Wise organisation. You will be responsible for the growth and well-being of the team, coaching and mentoring a talented group of engineers. You will own the technical roadmap, strategic direction, and will lead the team to deliver complex software projects.

    How we work

    We operate on a strong belief in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. We're looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the platform tribe.

    As we continue to develop the database platform. We need to sustain this growth by continuously iterating on the services we run, with a focus on availability, security, and ease of use. We're looking for an Engineering Manager with relevant experience who can understand complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence.

    What do you need?

    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

    • You are an inspirational technology manager with a proven track record of building engineering teams and promoting a culture of excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
    • Through effective prioritisation and capacity planning, you will be confident in guiding the team towards the successful delivery of projects.
    • You have a solid background in software engineering, focusing on platform development within the Python or Java ecosystems, upholding high coding standards.
    • You possess a thorough understanding of system design and are well-versed in software engineering best practices and principles.
    • You have experience in leveraging cloud services from providers like AWS or GCP, and have used your platform engineering skills to develop robust, scalable, and efficient infrastructure.
    • You are familiar with SQL and/or NoSQL database technologies and have a comprehensive understanding of key concepts such as high availability, scalability, and security.

    Nice to have:

    • Passionate about technology and its relationship with product and user experience. Customer is at the heart of everything you do and this empathy drives all decisions you make.
    • You are a security and privacy advocate, understanding concepts such as principle of least privilege, and are able to apply basic security principles at infrastructure and application level.
    • Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Packer), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers (Docker), container and job orchestration (Kubernetes).
    • Experience of workflow orchestration solutions such as Temporal, Cadence, or AWS step functions would be a major bonus.
    • Experience of building backend services and using an API-driven design approach is also a positive.
    • Ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
    • Knowledge/interest in payment platforms, foreign exchange & highly complex systems.
    • Be a customer of Wise.

    Interested? Find out more:

    • The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition.
    • Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
    • Wise Engineering –

    What do we offer:

    • Starting salary: £100,000-£120,000 + RSU
    • Wise Benefits
    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.
    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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