Who we are...
We’re global, we’re growing and we’re going to need talent to keep up the pace. We’re making payments simpler for over 4m customers worldwide, in over 90 currencies. We’ve been around for 10 years, disrupting the market with a digital payment platform that aims to make sending money abroad as easy as sending a text message.
There’s almost 1,200 of us already hard at work and we love welcoming new people. We’ve got offices across the world, from Kraków to Sydney and 15 locations in between - they’re open for business but right now lots of us are working from home. Want to be part of our global growth story - read on…
Who we’re searching for...
As an Engineering Team Leader (Java) you will:
- Provide technical and people leadership for a team of engineers, fostering a culture of supportand collaboration in the team and across the broader product-engineering organisation
- Participate in Engineering tasks such as coding, peer reviews, building automation tests
- Act as initial point of contact for your team and facilitating the inclusion of your engineers asrequired
- Work closely with Product Managers to align on your team’s capacity
- Work closely with Scrum Masters to build engagement, focus, responsibility and motivation inthe team
- Work closely with Architects to discuss and agree solutions
- Facilitate continuous improvement in the team by reviewing performance metrics and ensuring improvements identified from retrospectives are actioned
- Communicate technical vision, roadmap, progress and knowledge in your area via presentationsand digital channels, including the publication of blogs
- Help others to reach agreement on solutions for complex challenges
- Assist the VP, Engineering / HoE with performance reviews and responsible for personaldevelopment by holding regular 1:1s with team members
- Hire and retain top engineering talent; fostering a high-performance culture in your team
You will have:
- Deep technical knowledge in engineering and agile practices with a passion for learning new oremerging technologies
- Strong experience in event-driven architecture with event-sourcing (Kafka)
- Proven track record of technical delivery ownership of enterprise Java applications to solve complex business problems
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
- Capability of providing reports, presentations, making risks transparent and driving communicationeffectively within the Team, with VP, Engineering / HoE and CTO and outside to the widerorganisation (e.g. writing blog / newsletters)
- Experience of working in a high-volume FinTech business
- Track record of driving the highest level of engineering standards: architecture, coding, processes,and working practices
Have you got what it takes?
- An innovative mindset who embraces change
- Ability to represent WorldRemit on a wider stage by attending/presenting at conferences & meetups
What you’ll get from us…
- Private medical (Luxmed)
- Recharge days, 4 per year, 1 for each quarter
- Employer funded Multisport card
- Flexible working hours - we offer 100% remote working during the pandemic. After that we would like to see you in the office 2/3 times a week