Wise

Senior Staff Software Engineer

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8 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable onboarding architecture for new markets and customer segments.
  • Define technical contracts and integration points between Consumer Onboarding and other Wise teams.
  • Build and evolve robust onboarding flows from account creation through a customer’s first successful transfer.
  • Lead initiatives improving the maintainability, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency of core onboarding systems.
  • Own fundamental components, shared systems, shared libraries, or core infrastructure used across multiple teams.
  • Set technical vision, collaborate across teams, and mentor and grow engineers.

Requirements

  • Deep, production-proven experience with Java or similar object-oriented programming languages and modern service architectures.
  • Strong experience building and scaling distributed, high-throughput systems.
  • Experience owning and designing fundamental components, shared libraries, or core infrastructure used across multiple teams.
  • Ability to establish technical vision and mentor engineers.
  • Track record of building customer-facing products and understanding how technical decisions affect end users.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and aligning stakeholders.
  • Experience working with Frontend or Mobile engineers and design teams is preferred.
  • Background in high-growth consumer products or fintech is preferred.
  • Experience leading company-wide technical initiatives or working groups is preferred.

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About Wise

10,000+ employees

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.

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