2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build scalable backend systems for international joint accounts, kid accounts, and shared finance experiences.
- Develop features for shared spending, sending and receiving money, account customization, and related financial infrastructure.
- Build greenfield financial products from concept through production and scale them across multiple markets.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, Researchers, and customers to shape product direction and iterate on solutions.
- Contribute to architectural discussions, technical strategy, product direction, reliability, and infrastructure improvements.
- Work across Wise ecosystem areas including authorization systems, FinCrime-related systems, spend experiences, and shared account infrastructure.
Requirements
- Experience building scalable distributed systems and customer-facing products used by millions of users.
- Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
- Strong experience designing asynchronous, reliable, and scalable systems within microservice architectures.
- Ability to work effectively in greenfield environments with evolving requirements and ambiguity.
- A strong product mindset and ability to collaborate cross-functionally to shape solutions.
- Ability to contribute to architecture and technical direction, communicate complex concepts clearly, and work independently.
- Commitment to clean, maintainable, well-tested code and long-term scalability and reliability.
- Preferred experience building greenfield products, international consumer products, payment or financial systems, compliance-heavy systems, or global-scale systems.
- Familiarity with Kafka and event-driven or messaging systems, customer-facing financial products, and API-first development.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £111,000–£145,000 per year plus RSUs.
- Wise benefits package.
- Hybrid work arrangement, indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
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.