Senior CD Platform Engineer - Java/Go

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wise Benefits

Job summary

Wise London is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Continuous Delivery platform team. You will work mainly in Java and Go, extending Spinnaker and building services and integrations around it.

This hands-on role offers influence over the platform's technical direction, from discovery to operation, collaborating with Platform Engineering and other teams to improve reliability, safety and developer productivity across thousands of changes daily.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating production systems in Java.
• Experience designing distributed services and APIs, including testing, monitoring, and failure handling.
• Practical experience with a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience working with containers and an orchestration platform such as Kubernetes.
• A track record of automating operational work and building repeatable tooling.
• Experience owning shared or mission-critical infrastructure.
• The ability to turn complex requirements into understandable, maintainable solutions.
• A willingness to challenge existing approaches, share what you know, and learn from others.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate capabilities within Wise's Continuous Delivery platform.
• Evolve our use of the Open Source CD tool Spinnaker and contribute improvements upstream where appropriate.
• Build reliable guardrails that help engineers deploy changes safely with minimal manual effort.
• Improve the shared foundations of the platform in partnership with other Platform Engineering teams.
• Use telemetry and feedback to understand how the platform performs and where engineers experience friction.
• Work directly with engineering teams as they adopt new deployment patterns and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to technical design, code reviews, documentation, and the development of other engineers.

Skills

Java production systems

Distributed services design

AWS/GCP cloud

Kubernetes

Automation tooling

Infrastructure ownership

Requirements to design translation

Team collaboration

Tools

Spinnaker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Observability tools

Job description

Wise London is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Continuous Delivery platform team. You will work mainly in Java and Go, extending Spinnaker and building services and integrations around it.

This hands-on role offers influence over the platform's technical direction, from discovery to operation, collaborating with Platform Engineering and other teams to improve reliability, safety and developer productivity across thousands of changes daily.