Backend Engineer - Send Core

In this role, you will contribute to Wise’s Send Core team, shaping the critical infrastructure and customer-facing experiences that power money transfers. You’ll collaborate with product, design and data partners to deliver a seamless sending journey, while ensuring reliability and performance across the platform. You’ll influence architecture and major components to scale the core send capabilities and impact millions of users. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role in a collaborative, impact-driven culture.

• hybrid work model
• inclusive, diverse international team
• focus on collaboration and career growth

• Shape our Products: collaborate with product, design and data to deliver the best customer experience
• Control Critical Infrastructure: own systems that every sending transaction depends on across the platform
• Drive Technical Excellence: make architectural decisions for core send components to ensure reliability and performance

• strong computer science fundamentals
• strong knowledge of the modern tech stack and design concepts
• ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and simply
• product mindset: solve real customer problems with every change
• willingness to learn and grow in what may be a new stack or frontend area
• based in the UK (or able to work from the UK)

• strong communication
• collaboration
• curiosity
• computer science fundamentals
• modern tech stack and design concepts
• architectural thinking / decision-making