Backend Software Engineer - Product Eligibility

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wise Benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Wise in London/UK is seeking an experienced Java engineer to drive the technical vision for the Transfer domain. You will contribute to platform and back-office tooling, and occasionally to customer-facing flows, helping Wise scale its world-class transfer product. The role favours a strong emphasis on testing, code reviews and modern Java practices.

The team operates in hybrid mode across Wise London and Cherkasy, with a starting salary between £68,000 and £87,500 plus Wise benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience with large scale distributed systems and Java 8+.
• Design, deploy and maintain clean RESTful APIs with testing in mind.
• Strong practice of code reviews and feedback via tests.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision for the owned domain within an autonomous team.
• Contribute to platform work, back office tooling and customer-facing flows when needed.
• Help scale up the platform and the world-class transfer product.

Skills

Large scale distributed systems

Java 8+

RESTful APIs

Test Driven Development

Code reviews & feedback

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

Backend-for-Frontends

Job 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.

More about our mission and what we offer.

We’re unable to support relocation or visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates will need to already be based in the UK (or able to work from the UK)

Product Eligibility team is a fairly new team that was formed under Regional Platform Squad. We are one of the longest-running squads in the company building the platform for the core domains of Wise - Transfer, Payout and Partner Integrations. Besides that we are supporting product teams to extend the Platform capabilities for the new products and the new markets.

Product Eligibility team's main goal is to help Wise accurately determine which products and features are available to a particular customer.

To achieve this, we need to make sure we have a clear understanding of where our customers reside or operate business. As such, one of the first big challenges the team will tackle is overhauling of how Wise captures and validates customer's residence, present location and address information.

How we work

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

What will you be working on?

You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the owned domain. Contributing to the platform, back office tooling and episodically to the customer-facing flows. You will help us scale-up and build a world class transfer product.

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 have experience working with large scale distributed systems
• You have years of Java 8+ knowledge
• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
• 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 experience with Kafka
• You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

Interested? Find out more

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it's like to work at Wise London!
• Our Engineering career map
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer

• Starting salary:£68,000 - £87,500
• Wise Benefits

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