23 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect high-throughput Kafka and Flink streaming pipelines for global financial transactions.
- Build real-time liquidity attribution, aggregation, and observability systems across currencies, jurisdictions, and nostro accounts.
- Design reliable event-driven systems with exactly-once processing, idempotency, schema evolution, dead-letter queues, backpressure management, circuit breakers, and state-store recovery.
- Develop streaming data models for real-time consumers and downstream analytical stores.
- Deliver sub-second liquidity visibility and support ML forecasting models for treasury capital management.
- Set technical streaming strategy, lead infrastructure initiatives, conduct design reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Java or Scala.
- Proven experience building, deploying, and operating production-grade, low-latency stream-processing pipelines using Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, or Spark Streaming.
- Hands-on experience handling duplicate events, out-of-order processing, late-arriving data, and exactly-once semantics in financial or mission-critical domains.
- Strong expertise in windowing techniques, stateful stream processing, and high-throughput real-time aggregation.
- Advanced experience modeling data for streaming consumers and analytical stores, including event schemas, state-store schemas, and schema evolution with Protobuf or Avro.
- Ability to design defensively for dead-letter queues, backpressure, circuit breakers, and state-store recovery.
- Willingness to develop additional skills; the posting notes that candidates need not possess every listed qualification.
Benefits
- Wise Benefits are offered.
- The role includes RSUs in addition to base compensation.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
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.