Senior Software Engineer II - SRE - Java

Wise; London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise seeks a Senior SRE Engineer to enhance reliability and performance through collaboration across engineering teams. You will implement best practices in incident and capacity management, ensuring seamless operation of our services while leveraging your Java expertise to troubleshoot application issues.

Benefits

RSUs

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Support for learning new skills

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Java Software Engineering.
• Strong understanding of application frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Experience with troubleshooting database and data-related issues.

Responsibilities

• Optimising performance using observability tools to identify bottlenecks.
• Conducting incident and service reviews to suggest improvements.
• Collaborating with the wider Platform team to relay requirements.

Skills

Java

Application troubleshooting

Time management

Collaboration

Job description

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

About the role

We are looking for a Senior SRE Engineer to focus on Reliability Excellence at Wise. You will work cross functionally with all engineering teams in Wise to ensure we consistently deliver on our availability and performance SLOs. A product engineer background looking to have a big impact, you will need strong collaboration skills, an ability to jump into projects and influence how teams approach reliability.

Our SRE team is responsible for effective Incident management, Capacity management and Availability. You will focus on establishing/maintaining SRE best practices and removing any blockers to enable the reliability of Wise.

How we work

We operate on a strong belief in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. We’re looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the platform tribe.

As we grow, the expectations on the reliability of Wise consistently increase. We need to sustain this growth by continuously iterating on the services we run, with a focus on availability, security, and ease of use. We’re looking for an engineer with relevant experience who can analyse complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence.

What will you be working on?

• Identifying opportunities to optimise performance leveraging our observability stack to find bottlenecks, scaling issues and inefficiencies.

• Deep dive with teams on incident reviews, service reviews, suggest best practices and potential improvements

• Bring back requirements to the wider Platform team on a regular basis

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• Hands-on Java Software Engineer - you will be contributing to the Wise product and applying best SRE practices (development, testing, applications, observability).

• Strong understanding of Java and relevant application frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot).

• Hands on experience with troubleshooting Application, Database, Data related issues

• Strong prioritisation skills and effective time management

Interested? Find out more:

• The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 Edition.

• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £85,000-£130,000 + RSU

• Wise Benefits

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Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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