Backend Engineer - Contacts Team

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking a backend engineer to join the Contacts team in London, building backend solutions powering how customers interact with recipients.

You will work in an agile, cross-functional squad across Tallinn and London, focusing on scalable distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and data-driven decisions to improve customer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with large scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas.
• Ability to design, deploy and maintain clean RESTful APIs.
• Comfort with Test Driven Development and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Build backend solutions powering how customers interact with recipients.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and analysts in an agile team.
• Drive data-driven decisions to improve customer experience and reduce pain-points.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Relational DB

NoSQL DB

RESTful APIs

TDD

Spring Boot

Backend-for-Frontend

Code reviews

Data-driven

Collaboration

Product mindset

Job description

• Compensation: GBP 68,000 - GBP 87,500 - yearly

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

The Contacts team is a core team at Wise, dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to, to the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery, all the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their counterparties. The team is integral to Wise’s day-to-day operations — if our services go down, Wise goes down.

How we work

We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with designers, the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Tallinn and London offices.

What will you be working on?

You will be part of an autonomous team, and help build the backend solutions that power how our customers interact with recipients

Qualifications

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!

You get things done

You have experience working with large scale distributed systems

You have strong experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language

You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas

You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem

You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs

You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development

Nice to have:

You have experience with Spring boot

You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs .