12 hours ago
Tallinn, EstoniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve reliable, scalable backend services and reusable internal libraries for Wise’s Rules Platform.
- Drive technical design and architecture decisions for complex distributed systems where performance, reliability, and data consistency are critical.
- Improve platform performance and reliability by monitoring service-level objectives, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing improvements.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and engineering teams to prioritize improvements and make the platform easier to use and extend.
- Own engineering initiatives from problem identification and trade-off evaluation through implementation and delivery.
- Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, engineering best practices, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with JVM-based languages such as Java or Kotlin and complex backend systems.
- Experience with Kafka, SQL databases, and distributed systems, particularly systems requiring reliability and data consistency.
- Experience building or maintaining internal libraries, shared components, or reusable engineering solutions used by multiple teams.
- Confidence with system design, technical decision-making, trade-off evaluation, and architectural improvements.
- Strong product mindset and ability to understand internal users’ needs and collaborate with Product Managers.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering best practices.
- Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Nice to have experience with Spring or Spring Boot and build tooling.
- Nice to have experience in FinTech, FinCrime, risk-related systems, or regulated environments involving auditability, traceability, and governance.
Benefits
- Salary range of EUR 5750 to EUR 7083.33 gross per month.
- RSUs in a growing company.
- Hybrid working in Tallinn, Estonia, with relocation and visa sponsorship support if needed.
- Annual self-development budget.
- Three fully paid personal “me days” per year.
- Opportunities to grow technical expertise, mentor others, and progress along Wise’s Engineering Career Map.
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About Wise
Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large companies embed its international payments. Founded in 2011 as TransferWise, Wise is a London-headquartered public company.