IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer I - Wise for Enterprise - Banks

Wise

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this senior backend role, you will design and own scalable services that move and settle money across Wise’s cash management platform. You’ll work with product managers, partner banks, and engineers to translate partner needs into reliable systems. You’ll improve testing, observability, and production reliability while mentoring others. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape how Wise supports international payments and liquidity for partners and customers. You will operate with autonomy and collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions.

Pay / Benefits
  • RSUs
  • Wise Benefits
  • Starting salary: 87,000 - 111,000
Responsibilities
  • Own solutions from problem to production, partnering with product managers and engineers to design, build, test and operate backend services
  • Make thoughtful technical decisions, balancing delivery time, reliability and maintainability with incomplete information
  • Build across system boundaries by defining interfaces and assessing impact on the wider payment journey
  • Improve the systems you operate through testing, observability, and diagnostic work to increase dependability
  • Help the team succeed by contributing across workstreams, sharing domain knowledge, and mentoring colleagues
  • Work with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and PostgreSQL to design scalable services within a microservices architecture
  • Apply domain-driven design to build robust solutions and participate in code reviews and mentoring
  • Lead development in event-driven architectures and optimize relational databases for performance and scale
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support partner integrations and expand Wise’s payment platform globally
Key requirements
  • Hands-on experience building or contributing to large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong backend engineering experience with relational databases, event-driven systems, and OO programming
  • Product-minded ability to articulate customer problems and the value of your solution
  • Autonomy, ownership, and ability to progress in ambiguity while involving others as needed
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills across teams
  • Curiosity about the business domain and how partners use the products
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • curiosity
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Kafka

Reference: WJ-747_31062401

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