Senior Java Reliability Engineer - Scale & Resilience

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Wise Benefits

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Reliability Engineering team to improve reliability, performance, and compliance of Wise products. You will collaborate with software teams across the business, tackling complex reliability challenges and implementing scalable, reusable solutions.

The role focuses on balancing automation with practical engineering, optimizing critical backend services, and partnering with product and platform teams to drive reliability improvements at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong collaboration skills and ability to dive into projects with limited context.
• Experience with microservices in Kubernetes and cloud-based architectures.
• Hands-on software engineering experience (Java or other backend languages).
• Troubleshooting applications, databases and data-related issues with practical impact.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to optimise reliability and performance of critical services.
• Develop and implement scalable, org-wide reliability strategies.
• Deep-dive with teams to implement best practices and improvements.

Skills

Collaboration

Kubernetes

Backend engineering

Java

Troubleshooting

Product engineering

Job description

Wise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Reliability Engineering team to improve reliability, performance, and compliance of Wise products. You will collaborate with software teams across the business, tackling complex reliability challenges and implementing scalable, reusable solutions.

The role focuses on balancing automation with practical engineering, optimizing critical backend services, and partnering with product and platform teams to drive reliability improvements at scale.