Senior Software Engineer - Recommend

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer to enhance its recommendation platform. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in Java or Kotlin and a strong product mindset focused on customer experience. Join a diverse team and help shape financial solutions for global customers. This role offers comprehensive benefits, including RSUs and generous parental leave.

Benefits

RSUs in a growing company

Annual self-development budget

Statutory maternity leave with 18 fully paid weeks

Paternity leave for 18 weeks at full pay

3 fully paid ‘me days’ per year

Paid 6-week sabbatical after four years

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin.
• Strong experience with Spring framework and relational databases.
• Ability to work independently on customer problems.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and scale the recommendation platform.
• Collaborate with product teams and other engineers.
• Monitor adoption of newly developed features.

Skills

Java or Kotlin

Spring framework

Kafka

Testing strategies

Effective communication

Customer experience mindset

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

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Recommend team in the London office.

The Recommend team builds and owns the recommendation experience that allows customers to recommend Wise to their friends and family and brings new customers to Wise through the recommendations. From building referral platforms, to creating smooth onboarding experience for referred customers and building reward mechanisms, we own the whole journey until the first international money needs are met.

Our team is dedicated to building the best recommendation journey and diverse reward mechanisms to solve customers\' first international money needs in a way that’s clear, easy and delightful. Our team is diverse and is made of software engineers, data analysts, and designers and more that collaborate on a daily basis to continuously improve customer experience with recommendation journey at Wise.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help us evolve and scale our recommendation platform and reward mechanisms for our customers all over the world. You will get the opportunity to build the systems, APIs and product experiences that help us shape the first experience of many of our soon-to-be-new customers.

Qualifications

What does it take:

• 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin (or other JVM based language)
• Strong experience with Spring framework, relational databases, distributed and concurrent systems (Kafka)
• Close collaboration with product managers, data scientists, data analysts, engineers and other product teams is a must have and is something to expect to happen on a daily basis
• You enjoy writing testable code and you have experience in testing strategies, such as unit testing, integration testing
• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• You have great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
• You strive to improve our team culture and processes
• 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
• Being able to work independently on customer problems is a key to success - you take responsibility and end-to-end ownership of your projects: drive and own them to make sure we hit the goals we want to achieve

What the first six months in this role will look like

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team, squad and guild vision and how you can contribute
• Understanding the Fintech domain and our tech culture
• You’ll have fully developed new features, from planning to release, and keep monitoring their adoption once live
• Gone through two quarterly plannings and proposed ideas to take your product further

Additional Information

What you get back

• RSU's in a growing company
• An annual self-development budget
• Statutory maternity leave, with a perk of 18 fully paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity leave for 18 weeks at full pay
• 3 fully paid ‘me days’ per year to help you manage life
• A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

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.

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