4 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and build backend system components for customer-facing spending and account insights features.
- Shape the roadmap and deliver large projects end-to-end from technical design through production.
- Drive incident response and own short- and long-term mitigation plans.
- Write high-quality tests and documentation, review code, and design scalable systems.
- Mentor, onboard, and coach engineers while contributing to wider engineering forums.
Requirements
- Experience owning large, impactful backend projects end-to-end, including technical design and production delivery.
- Strong backend fundamentals and proficiency in a primary language, particularly Java and Spring Boot.
- Understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as asynchronous communication and event streaming.
- Experience writing well-tested, high-quality code and designing systems for long-term scalability.
- Experience mentoring and coaching engineers and contributing to a collaborative, inclusive team.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, stream processing, or high-throughput low-latency services.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £87,500–£111,000 plus RSUs.
- Wise Benefits.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Candidates must already be based in or able to work from the UK; relocation support is unavailable.
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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.