Engineering Manager - Database Platform
Engineering Manager - Database Platform
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Job Description
Enter: our Database Platform team!
For our customers using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B. Yet behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies routes products and features generating terabytes of data each day. Database Platform is at the core and provides databases as service for the rest of the business working with the Database Reliability Engineering team to manage our vast estate of database technologies and solutions. As an Engineering Lead in the wider Platform tribe and Engineering organization you will have an opportunity to directly affect database technologies and automation strategy scalability and reliability building production systems that are ultimately making things better for all customers.
Heres how youll be contributing to the team
You will be responsible for the well-being of the team coaching mentoring and growing a high-performing team in bringing value by working on high-impact solutions.
You will support the team with occasional hands-on involvement as a software engineer and systems operator bringing senior engineering expertise into building solutions.
Youll be collaborating with other leads engineers product managers in the wider organization.
Exactly what youll be doing day to day will vary as our team looks at the big picture challenges we see across all of analytics engineering and business!
Is this you
These (and feeling comfortable with the above points) are the only must-have ones for this role - everything else is flexible!
You are a strong leader experienced in problem-solving and guiding engineering teams through the complexities of project delivery using both agile and traditional methodologies.
Youre an excellent communicator engaging effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve goals and are capable of presenting to the wider organization when necessary.
Youre comfortable taking ownership of vendor negotiations and explaining costs to the business
Technical Specifics
You have a solid background in development ideally within the Python or Java ecosystems upholding high coding standards and a thorough understanding of system design and engineering principles.
You have expertise 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.
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.
Customer is at the heart of everything you do and this empathy drives all decisions you make.
Ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Knowledge/interest in payment platforms foreign exchange & highly complex systems.
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Interested Find out more:
Wise Engineering do we offer:
Starting salary: 00 RSU
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Additional Information :
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
