Professional skills

solid knowledge of Java 8
Spring framework
database abstraction layers
SQL databases
high coding standards

Personal skills

Open minded Ability to work in a team

Even better…

Passion about technology
Payment platforms

Job description

We’re looking for a Java Developer to join our growing team in Budapest. The role is a unique opportunity to change the way how our customers experience and interact with the speed of our transfers.

Your mission:

Making sure our customers are always aware of how fast our transfers are

Making our communication about speed clear and transparent

Ideal candidate

open minded Communicative Fun to work with

Qualifications

Other: BA degree

Language skills

English: Excellent command in spoken and written

Office address

Budapest, Lajos u. 126, 1036 Hungary

Work schedule

Core time: 9 - 17
You can start at: ASAP

Tasks

query optimisation and designing schemas
Work with other teams

Technologies and tools

Spring framework Java 8

How we work

Our strategy emerges from the collective brainpower of all our people, who are organised in dozens of independent, autonomous teams. Teams stay closest to our customers, so they choose what problems to solve and where to spend the most time.

You’ll experience radical levels of ownership and empowerment within your role. Plus the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on our customers.

Team info

Csapat mérete: 6-10 fő
Legfiatalabb, legidősebb kolléga életkora: 25 - 42

Our product

Who we are

TransferWise was founded in 2011 with a clear mission:

Money without borders - instant, convenient, fair and eventually free.

We built TransferWise cause it solves a problem for hundreds of millions of people. It puts the way money moves back into the hands of ordinary people. We power money for people & businesses - sending, spending and getting paid in any currency, wherever, whenever.

Our mission

It should be low-cost and fair.- here's only one fair exchange rate, and that's the one you get on TransferWise.

It should be easy.- sending money should be stress-free — no matter how far it’s traveling.

It should be fast.- we believe that sending money should be as fast as sending an email.

What would I miss if I left?

“I get to work with some of the smartest people. Not only in Europe, but also on this whole planet.”

— Lars Trunin , Product Manager

Office photo

Work-life balance

Munka

Magánélet

What makes our product special

Java Software development Startup Business Development Customer support FinTech Verification

Our story

2010.01.01

We were founded with the vision of making international money transfers cheap, fair, and simple.
2016.01.01

Over 1M happy customers trust us to move more than $1 billion dollars of their money, every month.
2018.10.01

We join Loveable Workplace Prize 2018

How can the employees affect the company’s life?

At TransferWise our strategy emerges from the collective brainpower of all our people, who are organised in dozens of independent, autonomous teams.

Favourite thing in the office

Trainings and workshops

We work in autonomous teams. We give a lot of trust to our teams and they need to be comfortable with that freedom. It’s not just about coming up with bold ideas, it’s about delivering them.

Lightning round

Lunch?: Together
Most proud of: Office culture
Ties or shorts?: Both

Why we love our office

TransferWise’s Budapest office is located in the impressive III. district close to the beautiful Danube river. It’s a city of stunning architecture and unrivalled hospitality, and now it’s the newest home for our customer support and engineering teams.

Product video

Which celebrity would your company be?

Pierce Brosnan

Luxy

Personal qualities we appreciate

If you’re keen to collaborate, learn, grow, try new things and aren’t afraid of a bold plan, you’ll fit right in.

About the workplace

Whom will you work with?: Looking for revolutionaries :)
Number of people/office space: Over 700 worldwide with 30+ in Budapest
How do we give feedback?: Very open feedback culture

JOB DESCRIPTION

At TransferWise our mission is: Money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent & eventually free.

But ambitious goals come with complex tech challenges - and our teams need your help to overcome them, to make our product the best it can be & so to change people's lives.

Fraud Prevention is applying latest technologies & tools to build an advanced Fraud Prevention Engine, detecting payment and other types of fraud while Business is crafting from scratch an awesome enterprise product.

REQUIREMENTS

Backend: Java 8, Spring Boot, Grails, PHP, Machine Learning
Frontend: JS, AngularJS, TypeScript, NodeJS
Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Messaging System: Kafka
DevOps/CI: Jenkins, GitHub, Circle CI, New Relic, Docker, Terraform, Ansible
Analytics/Monitoring/Management: Looker, Rollbar, MixPanel, perioscope, JIRA, Confluence

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design & build scalable software
Technical analysis & decide on technology roadmap
Fine-tuning & feature engineering Machine Learning models
Build UI which provides industry lead experience for customers
Improving our Investigation UI
Improve code & data in existing source and enhance relevant data-pipelines

MORE ON THE JOB

At TransferWise we work in self-sufficient, autonomous teams. Think of them like start-ups within a start-up that learn from each other.

Teams pick the problems they want to solve. There’s no micro-management. No hiding behind fancy job titles. And no one telling you what to do. You're your own boss. But you’ll get tons of guidance & plenty support from talented, super-smart colleagues.

Currently our Business & Fraud Prevention engineering teams are on the hunt for awesome full stack developers.