Staff Software Engineer - Treasury Safeguarding

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Greater London is seeking a skilled individual to join their Treasury Safeguarding Engineering Team. The role involves developing scalable systems for managing customer funds while ensuring compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, a product mindset, and solid experience in Java and Spring Boot. A competitive salary package between £105k-135k, plus RSUs, is offered for this critical position.

Benefits

Salary between £105k-135k

RSUs

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Strong product mindset, prioritizing work with customers in mind.
• Sense of ownership and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently yet collaborate effectively across teams.
• Capacity to break complex projects into incremental milestones.
• Experience with design and architectural patterns, emphasizing clean code.
• Curiosity and passion for continuous learning.
• Advocating best coding practices and conducting code reviews.
• Experience in real-time data processing and messaging systems.
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop systems for managing financial and operational risks.
• Collaborate with teams across Engineering and Analytics.
• Partner with business teams including Operations and Compliance.
• Implement solutions for performance bottlenecks and reliability.

Skills

Product mindset

Communication skills

Independent work

Team collaboration

Experience with design patterns

Knowledge of real-time data processing

Knowledge of Java

Experience with databases

Tools

Kafka

Spring Boot

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

Wise is growing fast in volume, revenue, gross margin, and customer products. Our customers already trust us with £19 Billion of their funds across 11+ licensed entities across the globe. The Safeguarding team is mission-critical and we ensure we put the safety of customer funds at the heart of what we do, as Wise continues to scale into new markets and products.

How we work

The Treasury Safeguarding Engineering Team builds and constantly improves scalable and reliable services that enable this large scale operation of safeguarding customer funds. You will develop the systems, processes and controls by which we manage financial and operational risks to customer funds, in line with local regulations around the globe in real time.

You will have very interesting challenges with high data volumes, fighting performance bottlenecks, implementing fault-tolerant solutions, and deep diving into the finance and treasury domain.

You will constantly collaborate with teams across Engineering and Analytics. You will also partner deeply with teams across the business including Operations, Finance, Compliance, Risk & Controls.

What do you need?

• A strong product mindset, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions
• Sense of ownership and great communication skills to drive projects across teams
• Ability to work independently while also being a good team player. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
• Knowledge and experience with realtime data processing and a messaging system, like Kafka
• Knowledge of Java and Spring boot.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, SQL query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus

Nice to Have:

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• Our Engineering career map
• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £105k-135k + RSUs
• Wise Benefits

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Additional Information

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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