Software Engineer
Software Engineer - US
TransferWise is an international money transfer startup with over 1 million customers worldwide. Co-founded by Skype’s first employee, the innovative platform is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sir Richard Branson, and PayPal founder Max Levchin, and led by an experienced team, including Paypal’s former director of product and Google Europe’s former head of finance. We're disrupting the world of international money transfers with transparency and low fees.
We’re looking for Software Engineers to join our team to make a real difference in the world’s largest and most competitive market. Our engineers empathise with our customers’ problems, develop impactful solutions and measure results. Our small US team has saved customers over $100 million, but we’re just getting started. You’ll have full ownership and autonomy of the US customer journey and work alongside a well seasoned team of ex Google, Seamless, Kickstarter, and Goldman Sachs employees.
What you’ll be working on:
- Managing the entire US user experience (web and apps), banking, payment processing, verification, compliance, and marketing – making international transfers the fastest, easiest, and cheapest
- Integrating payment methods and partners, creating a scalable and automated payments engine
- Understand our customers and the impact we’re making through data analysis and user research – ultimately driving the team’s roadmap
Must haves:
- 5+ years of commercial software development experience
- Full-stack engineer with a deep interest in customer facing product development
- Can work independently, plan your own solutions to problems, and measure KPI impact.
- Used a back-end MVC Framework, preferably Java / Spring Boot
- Developed in a modern front end framework, Angular.js is preferred
- Worked with SQL databases, writing custom queries and designing schemas.
- Have built modular scalable systems
- Be willing to travel, to work and learn with teams in London, Estonia and Ukraine.
Nice to haves:
- Experience using database abstraction layers like Hibernate.
- Mobile app development skills (iOS/Android)
Your benefits:
This is a full-time position with our growing team in our beautiful new office in the Flatiron area of New York City. All of our full-time employees are eligible for our great benefits, including:
- Competitive compensation including salary, stock options, and company matches to a 401k plan
- Generous vacation policy, including an all-expenses-paid company holiday in Europe
- Travel to and work with teams in our UK and European offices
- Peace of mind with terrific medical, dental, and vision plans alongside family leave
- Many social events, including team lunches on Friday
Please note, unfortunately at this time we are not able to sponsor any US visas.