Wise

Senior Backend Engineer

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2 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build end-to-end features across Wise’s pricing services.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and code reviews while improving quality, reliability, and observability.
  • Drive initiatives that improve the reliability, scalability, and flexibility of pricing products.
  • Own technical roadmaps and project deliverables from requirements through delivery.
  • Lead minor and major incident resolution and post-incident reviews.
  • Partner with product, compliance, and stakeholder teams to shape requirements and priorities.
  • Mentor and coach engineers and own onboarding for new team members.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background with significant contributions to large, impactful projects in complex production domains.
  • Experience with Java or a similar object-oriented programming language.
  • Expertise in the relevant technical discipline, including designing systems for long-term iteration and scale.
  • Ability to own the availability, reliability, and security of systems and make trade-offs among speed, scalability, and risk.
  • Experience engaging with product, compliance, and stakeholder teams.
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences and the ability to give and receive feedback.
  • Preferred experience in payments, fintech, global distributed teams, compliance, audit, regulatory requirements such as SOX, fee disclosure, or tax, and configuration-heavy domains.

Benefits

  • Wise Benefits are offered.
  • The company promotes an international, diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

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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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