7 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient Java and Spring Boot services within Wise’s payment platform.
- Apply domain-driven design to complex financial domains and build maintainable systems.
- Drive event-driven architecture using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
- Architect and optimize relational databases such as PostgreSQL for performance, reliability, and data integrity.
- Collaborate with Product, Implementation, Solutions Engineering, and Business Development on partner integrations.
- Provide cross-team technical leadership and influence architecture and platform improvements.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning.
- Mentor engineers and help raise technical standards across teams.
Requirements
- Extensive production experience building backend systems with Java and Spring Boot or similar languages and frameworks.
- Strong experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Experience building or operating event-driven systems with Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with domain-driven design and complex business-domain modeling is a plus.
- A strong product mindset and customer-focused, data-driven approach.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across teams.
Benefits
- Inclusive, diverse, and equitable international team environment.
- Compensation of GBP 111000 - GBP 145000 yearly.
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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.