Senior Backend Engineer - Global Shared Accounts

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Wise Benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Wise is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Account Sharing team within the Consumer Squad. You’ll help build shared financial experiences that work globally, including international joint accounts and kid accounts, collaborating with product managers, designers, data analysts, and researchers.

You’ll work in a greenfield, fast-moving environment where ownership, cross‑functional collaboration, and architectural influence are encouraged.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable distributed systems delivering customer‑facing products used by millions.
• Proficiency in backend languages: Java, Kotlin, Python or Go.
• Strong experience designing asynchronous, reliable, and scalable microservice architectures.
• Comfort in greenfield environments where requirements evolve rapidly.
• Strong product mindset and collaboration with PMs, designers, analysts, and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Build international joint accounts and shared finance experiences for Wise customers.
• Design scalable backend systems to support high growth and global scale.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and research teams to shape solutions.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Microservices

Product mindset

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Wise is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Account Sharing team within the Consumer Squad. You’ll help build shared financial experiences that work globally, including international joint accounts and kid accounts, collaborating with product managers, designers, data analysts, and researchers.

You’ll work in a greenfield, fast-moving environment where ownership, cross‑functional collaboration, and architectural influence are encouraged.