12 hours ago
London, United KingdomEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Optimize critical backend microservices and improve common libraries used across Wise teams.
- Develop organization-wide code-based strategies for capacity, autoscaling, resiliency, performance, and redundancy.
- Deep-dive into team services, recommend reliability best practices, and implement improvements.
- Troubleshoot application, database, and data-related issues while contributing hands-on software engineering work.
- Collaborate across product and platform engineering teams to improve service reliability, performance, compliance, and customer experience.
Requirements
- Product engineering background with hands-on software engineering experience in Java or other backend languages.
- Strong experience working with microservices in Kubernetes and cloud-based architectures.
- Experience applying development, resiliency patterns, and observability practices.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting application, database, and data-related issues.
- Strong collaboration, prioritization, and time-management skills, with the ability to influence reliability priorities across teams.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £87,500–£111,000 plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Local candidates only; relocation support is not provided.
- Visa sponsorship transfer may be supported for local candidates.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
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.