Software Engineer - Recommend - Android

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking an experienced Android Engineer to enhance their recommendation platform and reward systems. The ideal candidate will possess strong Kotlin skills, proficiency in modern app architectures, and a passion for creating user-friendly applications. This role involves collaboration with a diverse team of engineers to ensure high-quality solutions. A competitive salary ranging from £65,000 to £85,000 is offered.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and scale the recommendation platform and reward mechanisms.
• Build customer experience for referring friends or family.
• Collaborate with other mobile engineers to improve UX and code quality.

Skills

Proven experience in building and deploying an application that delights customers

Strong proficiency in Kotlin

Familiarity with modern app architectures

Desire to write testable code

Understanding of REST API design

Strong product mindset

Excellent communication skills

Ability to collaborate effectively

Tools

Gradle

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

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:

Team you will be working with: Recommend

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 Android 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 customer experience for referring their friends or family to Wise and to build product experiences that help us shape the first experience of many of our soon-to-be-new customers.

Being a member of Mobile engineering, you are encouraged to influence other parts of the app, collaborate with 60+ other mobile engineers and help raise both the UX and code quality across all Wise customers. You’ll also be responsible for ensuring the solutions you build scale and fit well in order to achieve a high quality global product and collaborate often with your peers across other teams as well.

Qualifications

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!

• Proven experience in building and deploying an application that delights customers
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin
• Familiarity with modern app architectures like Unidirectional Data Flow, Dependency Injection, Structured Concurrency with Kotlin Coroutines, amongst others
• Desire to write testable code
• Understanding of REST API design
• Strong product mindset and passion for user experience, with a focus on prioritising work that addresses user needs and making data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a team, as well as independently and proactively solve problems.

Nice to Have:

• Any experience with declarative UI (Compose), Gradle, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) would be great!

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• Our Engineering career map
• Automating UI model generation with KSP
• How we build 3D animations in mobile apps at Wise
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £65,000 - £85,000
• Wise Benefits

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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