Senior Backend Engineer, APAC Payments & Growth

Wise Payments; Singapore; On-site; SGD 149,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise, based in Singapore, seeks a senior backend engineer to lead the technical plan for APAC market launches and build compliant money movement services. You will collaborate with product, compliance, and operations to turn requirements into scalable solutions.

You will own distributed systems, API design, data modelling, and testing in production environments, while mentoring peers and ensuring reliability and security as Wise expands across APAC.

Qualifications

• Strong Java and Spring experience with production backends.
• Experience designing APIs, data models, and failure handling.
• Ability to take projects from concept to production and manage dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical plan and delivery of projects for market launches.
• Build onboarding and money movement services that meet local requirements.
• Clarify requirements with product, compliance, and operations teams.
• Contribute to the roadmap and communicate customer impact and risks.
• Design reliable, secure services and address technical debt proactively.
• Mentor colleagues and assist with code reviews and delivery coordination.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Explore AI tool usage with careful review of outputs.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Backend services

Distributed systems

API design

Testing

Mentoring

Data modelling

PostgreSQL

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

Wise, based in Singapore, seeks a senior backend engineer to lead the technical plan for APAC market launches and build compliant money movement services. You will collaborate with product, compliance, and operations to turn requirements into scalable solutions.

You will own distributed systems, API design, data modelling, and testing in production environments, while mentoring peers and ensuring reliability and security as Wise expands across APAC.