6 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Optimize critical backend microservices by improving common libraries used across Wise.
- Develop organization-wide code-based strategies for capacity, autoscaling, resiliency, performance, and redundancy.
- Deep-dive into services with engineering teams, recommend best practices, and implement reliability improvements.
- Contribute hands-on software engineering work using backend languages and reliability practices such as development, resiliency patterns, and observability.
- Troubleshoot application, database, and data-related issues.
- Collaborate cross-functionally and influence how teams prioritize reliability.
Requirements
- Product engineering background with a desire to have significant impact.
- Strong experience working with microservices in Kubernetes and cloud-based architectures.
- Hands-on software engineering experience with Java or other backend languages.
- Experience applying development, resiliency, and observability practices.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting application, database, and data-related issues.
- Strong collaboration, prioritization, and time-management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with limited project context and influence team priorities.
- Willingness to learn skills beyond current experience is supported.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £87,500 - £111,000 plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Local candidates only; relocation support is not provided.
- Visa sponsorship transfer support is available for local candidates.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
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.