IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer II - Contacts Team - Java

Wise

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role, you will shape the backend powering Wise’s recipient experience, focusing on scalable, reliable delivery of recipient management. You’ll work within an autonomous team to build a world-class product that supports secure account discovery, search, and local integrations. Your work drives cross-functional outcomes, ensuring a smooth, data-informed experience for customers. This is a hands-on, impact-oriented role in a mission to simplify international money movement at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Drive the backend technical vision for the recipient experience
  • Scale and build the recipient management product
  • Collaborate within an autonomous, cross-functional team (engineering, design, product, analytics)
  • Design, deploy and maintain RESTful APIs
  • Write testable code with emphasis on TDD and code quality
  • Collaborate to improve reliability and performance of scalable systems
  • Work with both relational and non-relational databases, including schema design and query optimization
  • Engage in code reviews and promote best practices across the team
Key requirements
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Java 8+ knowledge
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including schema design and query optimization
  • Strong product mindset and customer-focused decision making
  • Collaborative approach and ability to bring people together to solve problems
  • Experience designing, deploying and maintaining RESTful APIs
  • Commitment to best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
  • Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Collaborative
  • Customer-focused
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Java 8+
  • RESTful API design
  • Relational databases

Reference: WJ-747_30153261

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