3 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the technical plan and delivery of market expansion projects from customer problem definition through rollout and ongoing operation.
- Build onboarding and money-movement backend services that meet local requirements and integrate with Wise’s global platform and local partners.
- Collaborate with product, compliance, banking, and operations colleagues to clarify requirements, manage dependencies, and set delivery milestones.
- Contribute to the roadmap using customer impact, data, and operational feedback to guide improvements.
- Design maintainable services and take responsibility for their reliability, security, and technical debt.
- Support engineering quality through design discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in on-call rotations, provide out-of-hours support when needed, and help lead incident response and follow-up improvements.
- Evaluate AI tools for engineering work while carefully reviewing their output and owning the quality of shipped code.
Requirements
- Strong Java and Spring experience with backend services built and operated in production.
- Experience with distributed systems, asynchronous communication, API design, data modelling, failure handling, databases, schema design, query optimisation, and software testing.
- Experience taking projects from uncertain starting points to production, breaking work into increments, communicating risks, and maintaining delivery momentum.
- Ability to understand customer problems, explain technical decisions to non-engineering colleagues, and collaborate across functions.
- Experience helping other engineers succeed through mentoring, constructive feedback, or delivery coordination.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar domains, seek help, and adapt as new information emerges.
- Experience with payments, financial systems, or digital onboarding is preferred.
- Frontend experience with React or Angular is preferred.
Benefits
- Ownership of projects and influence over how the team builds products.
- Opportunities to develop expertise in launching financial products across APAC, mentor colleagues, support onboarding, and contribute to engineering interviews.
- Based in Singapore, collaborating with colleagues across South Korea, Japan, Hyderabad, and the wider APAC region.
- Salary range of 148,800 - 185,000 SGD base per annum plus RSUs.
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.