IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer II - FX Markets

Wise

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you shape Wise’s FX engineering stack by architecting a semi-automated hedge execution platform and real-time risk tooling. You will own the direction for 14+ production services, collaborating with traders, quants, and treasury teams to deliver scalable, automated hedging and pricing. You’ll build streaming pipelines and a high-throughput rate infrastructure to support multi-currency exposure, VaR, and hedge lifecycle processing. This is a chance to transform real-time financial infrastructure at scale and impact Wise’s FX operations.

Pay / Benefits
  • Starting salary: 111,000-145,000
  • RSU
  • Wise Benefits
  • International, diverse and inclusive teams
Responsibilities
  • Own technical direction and architectural evolution of FX engineering stack across two teams
  • Architect semi-automated hedge execution platform from exposure to programmatic trade execution
  • Build real-time streaming pipelines with Apache Flink for exposure, tenor interpolation, and hedge events
  • Evolve rate infrastructure for high throughput across FX forwards, corridors, and NDFs
  • Develop production infrastructure for quant models (VaR, exposure, pricing, FRP)
  • Own Kafka topology design and schema evolution across rate ingestion, risk calculation, and trade execution
  • Drive the technical roadmap, mentor IC2/IC3 engineers, and lead incident response for Tier-1 services
Key requirements
  • 8+ years in professional software engineering, ideally in financial systems or real-time data infra
  • Deep expertise in Java (17+) with Spring Boot in high-throughput environments
  • Extensive experience with Apache Kafka, topic design, schema evolution at scale
  • Strong data engineering for real-time streaming (Flink, Kafka Streams, or equivalent)
  • Proven ability to design/operate distributed systems processing millions of events per day
  • End-to-end reliability ownership: SLOs, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery
  • Experience leading technical design of multi-service architectures and influencing without authority
  • Exceptional product mindset translating traders’ and risk managers’ needs into technical strategy
  • Mentoring experience and ability to raise engineering standards across teams
  • product mindset
  • mentoring and leadership
  • collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Java 17+ and Spring Boot
  • Apache Flink
  • Apache Kafka

Reference: WJ-747_31050491

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