2 days ago
Tallinn, EstoniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the complex Java backend system used by Customer Support agents, including technical decisions, development, testing, and deployment.
- Solve distributed-systems challenges involving concurrency, service-to-service communication, asynchronous communication, data consistency, and reliability.
- Improve internal support tools, agent workflows, and customer-support efficiency.
- Drive technical improvements and manage technical debt while balancing features, maintenance, and long-term system health.
- Partner with Product Managers, operational stakeholders, and non-technical teams to shape priorities and the team roadmap.
- Contribute to agent-facing interfaces and workflows with React when needed.
- Take end-to-end ownership of engineering initiatives from opportunity identification through production delivery.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on Java experience building and maintaining complex backend systems in production.
- Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous communication, including Kafka and service-to-service integrations.
- Understanding of concurrency, parallel processing, thread safety, distributed locking, and eventual consistency.
- Ability to independently own complex technical problems from approach selection through delivery.
- Strong product mindset and ability to make engineering decisions based on customer impact.
- Pragmatic approach to technical debt, maintenance, and feature development.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with Product Managers, operational teams, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to work across the stack, particularly with React.
- Preferred: experience with backend-heavy products, complex workflows, internal tools for operational teams, and user-facing React applications.
Benefits
- Gross salary of €5,750–€7,083 per month, also stated as €69,000–€85,000 per year.
- Wise Restricted Stock Units opportunity.
- Hybrid working in Tallinn, Estonia, with relocation and visa sponsorship support where applicable.
- Annual self-development budget.
- Three fully paid personal days per year.
- Opportunities to grow technical expertise through Wise’s Engineering Career Map.
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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.