Senior Backend Engineer – Global Payments & Yield Engine

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking mission-driven senior product engineers to join our Grow squad. You’ll help scale a global financial platform and build a new frontier from scratch, working with cross-functional teams to define ambitious technical outcomes.

You’ll design high-availability systems, including a Yield Engine and brokerage foundations, tackle zero-to-one challenges, and shape the technical roadmap for a world-class money platform.

Qualifications

• Experience developing web applications and distributed systems in production.
• Strong understanding of Java-based backend architectures and microservices.
• Familiarity with messaging systems and high-availability design.

Responsibilities

• Work on high-availability systems in production environments.
• Contribute to scaling a global financial platform for Wise Grow.
• Collaborate with PMs, Designers and Analysts to define technical outcomes.
• Define and implement the technical foundations for new features.
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Job description

Wise is seeking mission-driven senior product engineers to join our Grow squad. You’ll help scale a global financial platform and build a new frontier from scratch, working with cross-functional teams to define ambitious technical outcomes.

You’ll design high-availability systems, including a Yield Engine and brokerage foundations, tackle zero-to-one challenges, and shape the technical roadmap for a world-class money platform.