Senior Software Engineer - Recommend Team (Java)

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. We are looking for a Senior Backed Engineer to join the Recommend team in our London office, focusing on the recommendation platform, rewards, and onboarding experiences for customers worldwide.

You will work with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to design scalable systems, APIs, and product experiences that simplify international money transfers and improve our customers’ journey.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin (or other JVM language).
• Strong experience with the Spring framework and relational databases.
• Experience with distributed systems, especially Kafka.
• Proven ability to write testable code and apply testing strategies (unit/integration).
• Excellent communication and collaboration with product, data, and engineering teams.
• End-to-end ownership mindset and customer-focused decision making.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and scale the recommendation platform and rewards systems.
• Build APIs and product experiences for customers worldwide.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers on core features.
• Contribute to testing strategy with emphasis on testable code and maintainability.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Testing

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Spring framework

Relational databases

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Recommend Team (Java)

• Full-time
• Compensation: GBP 87,500 - GBP 111,000 - yearly

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.

We are looking for a talented 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, family or connections 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 who collaborate on a daily basis to continuously improve customer experience with recommendation journeys at Wise.

What will you be working on?

We are looking for a Senior Backed 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

What do you need?:

• 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

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 .