26 days ago
London, United KingdomMid Level / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical vision for the backend solution powering Wise’s recipient management experience.
- Build and maintain large-scale distributed systems supporting recipient discovery and management.
- Design, deploy, and maintain clean APIs and scalable services.
- Work with relational and non-relational databases, including schema design and query optimization.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, and analysts to prioritize customer-focused improvements.
- Write testable code and participate in code reviews and open technical feedback.
Requirements
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Several years of Java 8 or later experience.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and schema design.
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining APIs.
- A strong product mindset and focus on customer experience and data-driven decisions.
- Commitment to coding best practices, code reviews, and Test Driven Development.
- Spring Boot experience is preferred.
- Backend-for-Frontend experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £111,000–£145,000 per year plus RSU compensation.
- Wise benefits package.
- The team operates across Tallinn and London offices.
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.