Senior Backend Engineer - Global Shared Accounts

Xapply; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wise Benefits

RSUs

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Account Sharing team within the Consumer Squad. You will help build a new shared finances platform enabling international joint accounts and kid accounts, with a product-focused, greenfield mindset.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data Analysts, and Researchers to shape scalable backend systems in a microservice architecture, using Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go, and to ensure global reliability across markets.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable distributed systems used by millions.
• Proficient in backend programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
• Strong experience designing asynchronous, reliable, and scalable systems within microservice architectures.
• Comfortable in greenfield environments with evolving requirements.
• Strong product mindset and collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, and Researchers.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable backend systems for high-growth consumer products.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and research teams to shape solutions.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and influence technical direction.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Ensure long-term scalability and reliability across services.

Skills

Scalable distributed systems

Backend languages: Java/Kotlin/Python/

Microservices architecture

Product mindset

Strong communication

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Wise is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Account Sharing team within the Consumer Squad. You will help build a new shared finances platform enabling international joint accounts and kid accounts, with a product-focused, greenfield mindset.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data Analysts, and Researchers to shape scalable backend systems in a microservice architecture, using Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go, and to ensure global reliability across markets.