Senior Real-Time Data Engineer: Liquidity & Streaming

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

Job summary

You will craft low-latency, high-availability architectures, enabling dynamic capital positioning across currencies in a highly collaborative, autonomous team. Expect ownership of critical infrastructure and close cross-functional partnerships.

Qualifications

• Proficient with Java or Scala in production systems.
• Strong background in real-time streaming pipelines.
• Experience with high-availability, low-latency architectures.
• Comfort with distributed data platforms and schema evolution.

Responsibilities

• Design and build real-time liquidity observability and streaming pipelines.
• Architect high-throughput Kafka and Flink pipelines for live transactions.
• Ensure exactly-once semantics, idempotency and robust failure handling.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and treasury teams to scale ops.

Skills

Java

Scala

Event-Driven Architecture

Idempotency

Backpressure

Tools

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark Streaming

Kafka Streams

Protobuf/Avro

Job description

You will craft low-latency, high-availability architectures, enabling dynamic capital positioning across currencies in a highly collaborative, autonomous team. Expect ownership of critical infrastructure and close cross-functional partnerships.