Senior Java Developer - Money without Borders at TransferWise (Tallinn, Estonia)

What you’ll be working on:

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• TransferWise is complex under the hood, but we’re just getting started. With our own payment rails, there are lots of opportunities to build new products and services on them.
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• At its core, our stack is Java microservices, using Netflix OSS offerings, and SPAs written in Angular 1/React, with a legacy Grails monolith. We are moving quickly to proven distributed technologies that can be scaled (Kafka, Zookeeper, Eureka, Bouncer +  much more)
  More details: http://tech.transferwise.com/the-transferwise-stack-heartbeat-of-our-little-revolution/
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• Integrating with a variety of partners and providers across the world, so our customers can send money across borders with minimal fuss and maximum confidence
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• Getting to the core of the customer’s problems by conducting interviews, answering support and figure out what TransferWise is to the customer and how it can be improved
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• What do you want to be working on? Autonomous teams come up with their own plans, there is no hierarchy telling you what to do.
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Must haves:

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• Passionate about technology and its relationship with business and user experience.
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• Ability to work independently and plan your own solutions to problems.
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• Possess empathy for the user and able to build great code that drives fantastic user experience.
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• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
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• Be willing to travel, to work and learn with dev teams in Estonia and Ukraine.
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• Excitement to work in a high-growth startup, and throw themselves fully into a revolution.
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• Be open, communicative, and fun to work with.
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• High coding standards (TDD, Clean Code)
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• Experience in performance tuning
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• Passion for making a difference
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• Experience with MVC frameworks preferably Spring
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• Experience building backend systems, preferably using Java 8
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Nice to haves:

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• Be a customer of TransferWise
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• Good front-end skills and eye for good UX
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Benefits:

Apart from the all-expenses-paid company trips, stock options in one of Europe’s most hotly tipped startups, a laptop and team lunches every other Thursday, you won’t get much in the way of extras. However, we will give you 28 days holiday a year (plus public holidays), a fun, friendly atmosphere, plenty of opportunities to grow and the chance to be part of our little revolution. Oh, and coffee, there’s plenty of coffee.

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