1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own solutions from customer problem through production, including designing, building, testing, and operating backend services.
- Design and maintain highly scalable Java and Spring Boot services within a distributed architecture.
- Lead development efforts using event-driven architectures with Kafka or similar messaging systems.
- Architect, design, and optimize relational databases such as PostgreSQL for performance and scalability.
- Collaborate with product managers, partner banks, and engineering teams on integrations and payment-platform capabilities.
- Improve testing and observability, diagnose production issues, and increase service dependability.
- Make technical decisions balancing delivery speed, reliability, and maintainability.
- Participate in code reviews, share domain knowledge, mentor junior engineers, and help colleagues grow.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building or substantially contributing to large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience with relational databases, event-driven systems, and an object-oriented programming language.
- Ability to understand customer problems, explain why solutions matter, and assess product impact.
- Ability to take ownership, work autonomously, make progress through ambiguity, and involve relevant experts.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across teams.
- Curiosity about financial and banking domains and willingness to learn how partners use the products.
- Useful additional experience includes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, payments, financial technology, funding, settlement, foreign exchange, and using product metrics and data to understand customer behavior.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £111,000–£145,000 plus RSUs.
- Wise benefits package.
- Inclusive and international 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.