APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW TIPS FOR ENGINEERING MANAGERS APPLYING TO TRANSFERWISE
If you’re reading this there’s a good chance you’re thinking of applying or have already applied to TransferWise - which is great news! Here’s a handy guide to our application process and interview tips for Engineering Manager roles. Step 1. Application The first step is the …
Read moreKickstarting my career as a Product Engineer at TransferWise
Hi! I’m Lauri, a Product Engineer at TransferWise. After finishing my studies in Informatics at the University of Tartu, I joined TransferWise in our Tallinn office and a few months ago I relocated to join our London team. Starting as a participant in the TransferWise Hackathon, leading into an …
Read moreTechnical Interviews @ TransferWise
Are you about to interview for a Full Stack or Backend Engineer position at TransferWise? If yes, you’re reading the right blog. Here’s a handy guide to help you prepare for our technical interview. Hi, I’m Andrew, an engineering Tech Lead here at TransferWise. I joined because …
Read moreAchieving high availability with stateful Kafka Streams applications
Kafka Streams is a java library used for analyzing and processing data stored in Apache Kafka. As with any other stream processing framework, it’s capable of doing stateful and/or stateless processing on real-time data. It’s built on top of native Kafka consumer/producer protocols and is subject …
Read moreDon't write tests against configuration
Why writing tests against production configuration is usually not that good idea and what to do instead. …
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