Senior Systems Engineer - APAC

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.

Salary range: SGD 148,800 - 184,800 per annum + RSUs

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join the PPI team to expand and maintain direct integrations with payments systems and partners all over the world.

What is the Platform Product Integrations (PPI) team?

The Platform Product Integrations team sits within our Platform tribe, which designs, builds and operates the foundational direct integration infrastructure that power the product that moves billions of dollars every month. 

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Team?

• Design, implement and maintain integrations between Wise and complex financial systems.

• Develop and design scalable and repeatable architecture with complex regulatory requirements.

• Analyse infrastructure to determine inefficiencies and problems, and create automation and optimisation.

• Collaborate with our larger platform engineering team and alongside product engineering on globally impactful projects.

• Communicate with various stakeholders throughout Wise, plan roadmaps with your team, and work through challenges to determine scope and realistic delivery.

• Work with Leads and Engineers to influence the direction and change current technology implementations, as well as advocate for excellence with third parties.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Work in a modern, cloud heavy environment where remote connectivity is a staple of our tech ecosystem

• Choose your path to impact - we believe people and teams are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls

• Grow as an engineer - understand what problems the business needs to solve and why, then proactively resolve them. We shy away from micro management

• Approach new challenges with the freedom to develop novel and customised solutions

• Grow as an engineer - understand what problems the business needs to solve and why, then proactively resolve them. We shy away from micro management

• Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in designing and deploying complex infrastructure on cloud and on-prem.

• Experience in making complex deployments repeatable using modern Infrastructure as Code principles and scripting.

• Applying software development principles to infrastructure design and deployment

• Ability translating business requirements into explainable technical solutions for internal and external stakeholders

• Leading technical projects or small team of engineers would be a great plus

The following is a list of some of the technologies and vendors we use. It is not an exclusive list nor do we expect you to know everything. But it gives a flavour.

• AWS Compute and Networking: EC2, EKS, VPC, Direct-Connect, Transit-GW

• Kubernetes

• Software development experience is desirable but not essential

• ELK, Prometheus

• Terraform

• Python, Go or Bash

• Good understanding of Linux fundamentals

• CM tools (e.g: Ansible, Puppet)

• Git, with Github

About You

• You’re a self starter who can run with projects

• Reliability and scalability are paramount in your solutions

• Security and privacy by design mindset

• You think about risks and compliance 

• You enjoy looking for where you can have impact and upset the norm

• You’re happy working in a flat organisation structure

• Technical influencer capable of promoting architectural patterns to internal and external stakeholders

• You are comfortable facing new challenges and creating novel and customised solutions

• You’re collaborative, charismatic and have the ability to tailor communication to the audience - both to technical and non-technical people as needed. Effective communication between cross-team stakeholders, peers and leads is key

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.

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