Staff Software Engineer II - Payment Processing Platform (Java)

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial technology company is seeking a software engineer to enhance their international payment solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong product mindset, solid experience in Java 11 and Spring framework, and excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration. This position offers the opportunity to impact customers' lives while working in a fun and diverse environment.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Social activities and events

Travel opportunities

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Prioritise customer needs and make data-driven decisions.
• Communicate effectively across teams to drive projects.
• Write testable, extendable, high-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Onboard and contribute to team and vision.
• Solve problematic payments and enhance customer experience.
• Work autonomously to impact customers' lives.

Skills

Strong product mindset

Great communication skills

Articulating technical concepts

Writing high-quality code

Java 11 knowledge

Experience with Spring framework

Distributed and Concurrent Systems

Microservice architecture patterns

Relational databases and messaging queues

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

Current traditional banking infrastructure is antiquated making it inherently slow, complicated, and expensive to send, spend, or receive money internationally. This inefficiency is often rooted in the reliance on costly, legacy payments systems.

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.

Success Criteria

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Additional Information

• 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

Interested? Find out more:

• 👀 How we work - a practical guide
• 📹 Wise Vlogs: Omar, Engineering Lead
• 💻 Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• 📈 Our Engineering career map
• 🚀 Engineering career journeys at Wise
• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering... or check out our Engineering blog.

Find out more about our benefits in our London office.

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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