Senior Software Engineer - Payment Processing Platform

Wise; London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company on a mission to revolutionize money transfer services. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on a Payment Processing Platform that aims to provide reliable and scalable solutions for seamless international transactions. Your role will involve writing high-quality, testable code while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience. With a strong focus on innovation, this position offers ample opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic environment. If you are passionate about solving complex challenges and making a real impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Development Opportunities

Fun Work Environment

Travel Opportunities

Social Activities

RSU Package

Qualifications

• Strong product mindset with a focus on user experience and data-driven decisions.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop reliable and scalable services for payment processing.
• Drive cross-team projects and advocate for best coding practices.

Skills

Java 11+

Spring Framework

Microservice Architecture

Distributed Systems

Relational Databases

Messaging Queues

Testable Code

Communication Skills

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Payment Processing Platform

Senior Software Engineer - Payment Processing Platform

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Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

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.

Job Description

More about our mission and what we offer.

Payment Processing Platform

Our goal is to provide reliable and scalable services that can be used by all the other product teams in the company. We provide such systems for transfers, and payouts domains.

We want our platform to be easy to use, integrate, and extend, while also enforcing good practices, risks mitigation, and maintaining high performance.

What Does It Take

• A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• Great communication skills to drive cross team projects
• The ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
• You enjoy writing testable, easy to extend, high-quality code
• You have solid Java 11 plus knowledge, experience with Spring framework and microservice best practices
• Advocate for best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• Experience Distributed and Concurrent Systems
• Hands on knowledge of microservice architecture patterns
• Experience working with relational databases, messaging queues and designing schemas
  
  

What does success look like?:

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
• You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them
• You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
• Understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives. You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class money transfer product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities
  
  

What You Get Back

• The empowerment to solve problems your way and the freedom to have real impact on customers’ lives.
• Loads of development opportunities in a growing team through launching new products / features consistently in an in-demand region.
• A fun work environment with social activities and events
• Travel opportunities to other Wise offices around the world
• The opportunity to work with super smart people
• The salary ranges between £85,000 - £105,000 with an RSU package
  
  

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work - a practical guide
• Wise Vlogs: Omar, Engineering Lead
• The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 edition
• Our Engineering career map
• Engineering career journeys at Wise
• or check out our Engineering blog.
  
  

We’re people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Also, qualifications aren’t that important to us. If you’ve got great experience, and you’re great at articulating your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.

And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic.

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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