1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Java backend services using Spring Boot on AWS.
- Build and maintain event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka for asynchronous financial-event processing.
- Drive architectural decisions and maintain high standards for service quality, reliability, security, and observability.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and technical debt.
- Participate in on-call rotations for Tier 1 production services and respond to incidents.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor and coach other engineers.
- Own project technical roadmaps and deliverables end to end.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape requirements and priorities.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with significant contributions to large, impactful projects in complex production environments.
- Experience with Java or a similar object-oriented programming language.
- Expertise in the relevant technical discipline and ability to design systems for long-term scale and iteration.
- Ability to make trade-offs among delivery speed, scalability, and risk while maintaining predictable delivery.
- Ability to work autonomously on ambiguous and complex problems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to tailor communication to different audiences.
- Ability to use data to define, prioritize, and measure initiatives.
- Ability to mentor engineers and share knowledge.
- Experience with pricing systems, payments, or finance is preferred.
- Experience with distributed SQL engines such as Trino is preferred.
- Ability to build software solutions, APIs, or platform tooling on big data pipelines and analytical engines is preferred.
- Familiarity with configuration-heavy domains where business logic is shared between data and code is preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £87.5k–£111k plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement, as indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
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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.