Software Engineer - Java - Test Enablement
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works. Strong understanding of effective testing strategies (microservice testing, chaos engineering, fault-tolerant systems) and a passion for driving improvements in their implementation. Growth mindset and a desire to learn, teach, and improve skills. Nice to Have Experience with CI/CD systems, in particular Spinnaker. Experience in implementing SRE principles. Experience with containerisation technology and orchestration platforms e.g. Docker, Kubernetes. Knowledge of architectural concepts such as microservices, service mesh. Experience in scaling, building and testing with automation; e.g. including tooling in pipelines instead of manual operational changes. Good knowledge of observability stacks and tooling (e.g. Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, Tracing). Good discipline and skill in producing written documentation and diagrams. Good knowledge of cloud networking and security. Experience working in a regulated business (e.g. PCI). Experience of capacity planning as well as performance and load testing. You get back: The ability to choose your own path to success - you'll have the freedom to define the vision. The opportunity to gain visibility in the open source community. The freedom to have real impact. The opportunity to inspire teams. A fun work environment with social activities and events Additional Information Interested? Find out more: How we work - a practical guide Wise Tech Stack (2025 update) Our Engineering career map Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work Wise Engineering What do we offer: Wise Benefits For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive. We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers. If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs. Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram. Responsibilities You will be building out a comprehensive testing platform and addressing testing blockers experienced by engineers. The role involves creating a scalable foundation for the testing platform and integrating with partner teams.
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Java, Spring Boot, Cloud Platforms, Testing Strategies, Automation, CI/CD, SRE Principles, Containerization, Microservices, Observability, Documentation, Cloud Networking, Performance Testing, Load Testing, with relevant experience who can analyse complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence. What will you be working on? Building out the nascent testing platform offering; currently the focus is on understanding the biggest testing blockers experienced by engineers and devising highly automated solutions. Creating a scalable foundation for our testing platform, integrating with partner teams in Platform Engineering. Working closely with engineers across the company to help them as they shift towards high levels of automated, repeatable end-to-end testing. What do you need? Hands-on Java Software Engineer - you will be building the platform and applying best SDLC practices (development, testing, applications, monitoring). Strong understanding of Java and relevant application frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot). Experience of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP) both in utilising services and how cloud infrastructure