7 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services deployed on AWS.
- Build and maintain APIs serving millions of customers across web and mobile platforms.
- Develop and optimize services powering Wise’s card pay-in payment method.
- Design database schemas and optimize SQL queries for high-volume PostgreSQL transactional data.
- Build and maintain Apache Kafka event-driven architectures for asynchronous financial-event processing.
- Develop a payment orchestration system that routes payments across Payment Service Providers for cost and reliability.
- Write unit, integration, and end-to-end automated tests for financial systems.
- Conduct code reviews and uphold code quality, security, and engineering standards.
- Participate in on-call rotations for Tier 2 production incidents.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and engineers on cross-functional projects.
- Resolve performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and technical debt.
- Apply security best practices and comply with financial-data and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Backend engineering experience developing and maintaining production services and APIs.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, AWS, PostgreSQL, SQL, and Apache Kafka.
- Ability to design scalable distributed systems and high-volume transactional data solutions.
- Experience building automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
- Ability to participate in code reviews, production on-call rotations, and incident response.
- Understanding of secure handling of sensitive financial data and financial regulatory requirements.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams.
Benefits
- Annual compensation of GBP 87500 to GBP 111000.
- International, diverse, equitable, and inclusive working environment.
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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.