Staff Software Engineer - Payment Processing Platform (Java)

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its team in London. The role involves building a payment processing platform using Java, focusing on user experience and scalable solutions. Candidates should have strong knowledge of Java 11 and microservices. The position offers competitive compensation and development opportunities in a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Fun work environment

Travel opportunities

Work with smart people

Qualifications

• Strong product mindset with a focus on user experience.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on experience with microservice architecture patterns.

Responsibilities

• Help create a new network for the world's money.
• Raise the automation level to scale the product.
• Understand customer pain-points and solve technical challenges.

Skills

User experience focused product mindset

Great communication skills

Articulating complex concepts

Writing testable, high-quality code

Java 11 and Spring framework

Best coding practices advocate

Experience with distributed systems

Hands-on with microservice architecture

Relational databases and messaging queues

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Payment Processing Platform (Java)

• Full-time
• Compensation: GBP 105,000 - GBP 130,000 - 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.

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

• Will have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute.
• Will understand how our values can help you guide your work.
• Will understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them.
• Will 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 with Distributed and Concurrent Systems.
• Hands on knowledge of microservice architecture patterns.
• Experience working with relational databases, messaging queues and designing schemas.
• The empowerment to solve problems your way and the freedom to have real impact on customers’ lives.

Perks & Development

• 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.
• 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.

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