Senior Software Engineer II (up to Staff Level) - Contacts Team

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial technology company in London seeks a Backend Engineer to drive the technical vision for their recipient management product. This role emphasizes collaboration within an agile team and values customer experience. Candidates should have strong Java skills, experience with large distributed systems, and a product mindset. The company fosters a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• A strong passion for customer experience and making data-driven decisions.
• Enjoy collaboration with team members to solve problems.
• Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision for the backend solution.
• Help build a world-class recipient management product.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers.

Skills

Experience with large scale distributed systems

Java 8+

Relational and non-relational databases

Product mindset

RESTful APIs

Best coding practices

Test Driven Development

Tools

Spring Boot

Job description

About the role

Overview

The Contacts team owns everything related to adding, managing, and reaching recipients in Wise. We are an energetic new team who are on a mission to optimise the recipient's experience globally.

How we work

We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with designers, the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Tallinn and London offices.

What will you be working on?

You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient’s user experience. You will help us scale-up and build a world class recipient management product.

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!

• You get things done
• You have experience working with large scale distributed systems
• You have years of Java 8+ knowledge
• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
• You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
• You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development

Nice to have:

• You have experience with Spring boot
• You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

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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