Senior Software Engineer I - Java

Wise; Singapore; On-site; SGD 147,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Singapore. This role involves leading impactful engineering projects, ensuring seamless customer experiences, and mentoring junior developers. Candidates should have strong expertise in Java 17 and Spring framework, along with excellent communication skills. The company values diversity and fosters an inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with Java 17 and Spring framework.
• Strong product mindset focusing on customer needs.
• Excellent communication skills for articulating complex ideas.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering projects impacting hundreds of millions of customers.
• Build seamless experiences with self-service solutions.
• Coordinate on cross-cutting technical issues to drive product improvement.

Skills

Java 17

Spring framework

Relational and non-relational databases

React

Next

Svelte

Angular

Job description

Overview

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.

Salary range: SGD $147,000 - $180,000 per annum + RSUs

Responsibilities

• Help us take Wise to the next level as we scale to impact hundreds of millions more customers. You\'ll hide away all complexities under the hood of our product and build seamless experiences for our customers.
• Work on the core flow of Wise, ensuring our customers get the best experience even when things don’t go as planned by building self-service solutions, automating the resolution, and building efficient tooling for our Operations team.
• Create clear and helpful interfaces, while maintaining consistency, maintainability, performance and an understanding of what problems our customers might encounter along the way.
• Take initiative to identify and solve important problems. Coordinate with others on cross-cutting technical issues.
• Drive product improvement that impacts the Wise customer experience or empowers internal stakeholders (teams like Operations, Customer Support, Finance, etc.) to do their job effectively.
• Proactively identify and tackle technical debt becoming too big through planning work and aligning the team. Do this with careful evaluation of additional cost on development.

Qualifications

• You have solid Java 17 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework.
• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design.
• You approach challenges with a strong product mindset, prioritise customer needs and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points.
• You have led the design and development of complex engineering solutions and understand their broader impact on business outcomes.
• You have excellent communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers.
• You have front end experience in technologies like React, Next, Svelte or Angular.
• You are familiar with Continuous Integration and deployment frameworks.

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Some extra skills and experiences that would be great:

• You have experience with financial systems including how payments and digital onboarding flows work.
• You have some Groovy experience.
• You have experience in technical leadership - maintain technical excellence of your team, managing performance, giving feedback, and coaching engineers to thrive.

What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise

We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by the impact you create and the complexity of problems you can help solve. As a Senior Software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the licence to:

• Lead medium to large (8-16 engineering weeks) sized projects that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers.
• Own the technical domain of your team with a view on how it should move forward.
• Propose ideas to improve and grow your team’s product.
• Embrace long-term ownership of projects while training other engineers to reduce single points of failure.
• Architect and design services that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling.
• Collaborate closely across functions like product, analytics, design, and operations to ensure smooth and effective delivery.

To get the best view of what we expect at all levels of our engineering team, you can take a look at our Engineering Career Map.

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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