Senior Platform Engineer - Java & REST APIs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Wise Benefits

Job summary

Wise is hiring for a UK-based role in London within a Product Eligibility team. You will drive the technical vision for the owned domain, shaping platform tooling and customer flows.

You will contribute to the scaling of the platform to support new products and markets, while collaborating closely with product managers and engineers in an agile environment. The role emphasizes clean, testable code, TDD, and strong collaboration to improve customer experience in Wise’s core money transfer

Qualifications

• Experience with large‑scale distributed systems.
• Years of Java 8+ knowledge.
• Experience with relational and non‑relational databases.
• Strong product mindset and customer focus, data‑driven decisions.
• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to solve problems.
• Experience designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs.
• Commitment to best coding practices, code reviews and TDD.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision for the owned domain and contribute to platform tooling.
• Scale the transfer product and support new markets.
• Collaborate with product management and engineers in an agile setup.
• Help build a world‑class transfer product and improve customer experience.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java 8+

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

RESTful APIs

Test Driven Development

Code reviews

Collaboration

Customer experience

Data-driven decisions

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

Job description

Wise is hiring for a UK-based role in London within a Product Eligibility team. You will drive the technical vision for the owned domain, shaping platform tooling and customer flows.

You will contribute to the scaling of the platform to support new products and markets, while collaborating closely with product managers and engineers in an agile environment. The role emphasizes clean, testable code, TDD, and strong collaboration to improve customer experience in Wise’s core money transfer