IT & Software

Backend Engineer - Contacts Team

Wise

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will help build the backend that powers how Wise customers interact with recipients, supporting a scalable platform with secure accounts and local integrations. You will work in an autonomous, cross-functional team to enable reliable, high‑quality recipient management experiences. Expect to tackle growth, performance, and reliability challenges in a mission‑critical fintech environment. This is a chance to shape how users discover and interact with counterparties at scale.

Pay / Benefits
  • Starting salary: 68,000 - 87,500 + RSUs
  • Wise Benefits
  • DEI initiatives
  • Inclusive, international team
  • Career progression opportunities
  • Flexible work options (implicit in tech culture)
Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain backend solutions powering recipient interactions
  • Develop scalable platform components ensuring high availability for mission-critical services
  • Collaborate with designers, product managers, and analysts in agile sprints
  • Integrate search algorithms and local integrations (e.g., Pix) to improve discovery
  • Design, deploy, and maintain clean RESTful APIs
  • Apply best coding practices, code reviews, and testable code (TDD)
  • Focus on customer experience and data-driven decisions to reduce user pain-points
  • Support and improve services to prevent downtime and outages
Key requirements
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and schema design
  • Product mindset with emphasis on customer experience and data-driven decisions
  • Collaborative mindset and ability to work with cross-functional teams
  • Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining RESTful APIs
  • Belief in best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
  • Experience or familiarity with Test Driven Development
  • Collaborative
  • Customer-focused
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Java or similar OO language
  • RESTful API design and deployment
  • Databases (relational and non-relational) and query optimization

Reference: WJ-747_30133902

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