Chief Architect
Architecture
Chief Architect
Warszawa
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
B2B
Operating mode
Remote
Tech stack
Cloud
Microservice Architecture
Microservices
MS migration
AWS
Job description
Online interview
TransferGo is a fast-growing fintech start-up that offers online money transfers to over 160 countries with high speeds, low fees and no hassle. We’ve come this far by building a talented, diverse workforce on fair culture of trust, empowerment, and fun. And because our people understand the challenges our customers face, they’re better placed to make life easier for our customers around the world—3.5 million of them, and counting.
We need our Chief Architect to lead the evolution of our technology stack. This role will guide the engineering efforts in our journey to build a decoupled, fault-tolerant micro services architecture that can scale and turn TransferGo into a Super App for migrants.
The main requirement for this role is to believe in the mission and vision. We need someone who cares enough about it to join a team that will go on an exciting growth journey, this role will be essential in shaping that journey.
In terms of technologies, our front-end engineers are expertly fluent in React and Redux for both desktop and mobile, and our mobile engineers have expertise in Swift and Kotlin. We have a monolithic application augmented with (micro)services is at the heart of our operation. And driving all these services? PHP 7.4+, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch and Docker. We also rely heavily on AWS cloud infrastructure and follow infrastructure-as-code principles.We are a mobile first product, led by data insights.
Responsibilities:
- Passion for well-designed systems. Our business is growing and so is our product. This role is responsible for making sure we build things the right way, and we change things we’ve built to be prepared for the future.
- No Ivory Tower. The way systems are designed shouldn’t be a purely theoretical exercise. You will need to consider and factor in the real engineering reality in your decision making and design process. It doesn’t mean we’ll compromise and design the wrong thing. It means we want to design things we can build, even if they are hard to build.
- Join the dots. Guiding our technical roadmap is a big job and needs to be linked to the rest of the organisation. You will need to build knowledge of our product, our growth plans and strategic imperatives, and make sure the technology roadmap is value-driven.
- Work with others. This isn’t a solo role; you will need to work with engineering, product and our leadership to be the best you can and help us build our future.
- Technical ownership. Helping product teams to address complex technical problems, choose new vendors or new technology.
- You’ll report to CTO.
Requirements:
- Proven success in designing, building and scaling distributed, cloud-native applications and systems;
- Ability to maintain the business running while running multiple transformational projects;
- Experience working with Software Engineering in some capacity;
- Real life experience designing and implementing microservices architectures.
What we believe
At TransferGo, we do the work that matters, prioritising our customers above all else. But special treatment isn’t reserved just for customers – we go above and beyond to help our colleagues and our company succeed, too, building trust and being transparent all the way.
We take risks, learn from our mistakes and own what we do – and, by aspiring to be our best, we challenge ourselves to grow. This comes from knowledge-sharing and collaboration – and, of course, a hefty amount of fun!
Some of our best benefits
- Being part of an exciting and growing fintech startup community
- A competitive salary package
- Unlimited paid holiday
- Private health insurance with Lithuanian and UK employee’s, other employee’s get an equal amount to claim benefits of their choice from.
- Flexible working hours, with the opportunity to work from home
- The opportunity to learn with a company that is rapidly growing, along with a guaranteed training budget of €1,000
- A friendly atmosphere and stimulating environment – a pet-friendly office (where we have them), team events, tasty snacks and drinks in the office, team buildings, a fun budget and events.
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