Backend Engineer - Contacts Team

Overview

In this backend-focused role at Wise, you contribute to the Contacts team, building scalable services that power how users interact with recipients. You’ll work within an autonomous, cross-functional team to deliver reliable backend solutions and integrate search and local payment capabilities. The role centers on improving the recipient experience at scale, underpinning Wise’s payments network. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and analytics to fix customer pain points and drive impact.

Pay / Benefits

• RSUs
• Wise Benefits

• Build backend solutions powering customer-recipient interactions
• Contribute to a scalable platform handling tens of millions of bank accounts
• Advance search algorithms and local integrations (e.g., Pix) for discovery
• Collaborate in an agile, cross-functional environment with designers, PM, and analysts
• Design, deploy, and maintain clean RESTful APIs
• Ensure code quality through best practices, reviews, and testable code

• 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
• Customer-focused mindset and ability to make data-driven decisions
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work with others to solve problems
• Experience in designing, deploying and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Commitment to best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
• Experience with Test Driven Development

• collaboration
• customer-centric thinking
• data-driven decision making
• Java (or similar OO language)
• distributed systems
• RESTful APIs