Software Engineer - Spend

WISE ASIA-PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Spend Squad in Singapore is seeking an experienced backend-focused engineer to scale the core card flows and support global expansion. You’ll deliver reliable services, build tooling for our Operations team, and mentor junior developers while collaborating with product, finance, and support to improve the customer experience.

You’ll write testable code with Java 17+, use Spring, work with PostgreSQL, and have frontend exposure (React or similar).

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience developing backend driven applications.
• Strong product mindset with focus on user experience and data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication and ability to articulate complex concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience writing testable code and practicing Test Driven Development.
• Follow best coding practices, perform code reviews and welcome feedback.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior/mid-level developers.
• Solid Java 17+ knowledge and Spring framework experience.
• Frontend exposure with React or similar frameworks.
• Experience with relational databases, query optimisation and schema design.
• Familiarity with a Continuous Delivery mindset.

Responsibilities

• Help scale the core cards flow and support global expansion.
• Build seamless experiences for customers by hiding complexity under the hood.
• Create clear interfaces and maintainable interfaces/docs for cross-team use.
• Identify and solve customer problems, coordinating with other teams on cross-cutting issues.
• Drive product improvements that benefit customers and internal teams.
• Tackle technical debt with planned work and cost-aware decisions.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring

React

Test Driven Development

Code reviews

Mentorship

Communication

Data-driven decisions

Relational databases

Backend development

CI/CD

Financial systems familiarity

Tools

PostgreSQL

Groovy

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About The Spend Squad

We build products that allow our customers to spend their money anywhere in the world. We currently process about £34 billion annually and issue cards to over 40 countries. We are also building out features which localise the spending experience no matter where you are.

How you’ll be contributing to our Engineering team:

• Help us take Wise to the next level as we scale to impact 100's of millions more customers. You'll hide away all complexities under the hood of our product and build seamless experiences for our customers

• Working on thecore cards flowof Wise, growing our user base who uses cards. You'll ensure our customers get the best experience onboarding to cards and using it for the first time. You will also help with building efficient tooling for our Operations team to support global expansion

• Create clear and helpful interfaces and documents, whilst maintaining consistency, maintainability, performance and an understanding of what problems our customers might encounter along the way

• Take initiative to identify and solve important customer problems, while coordinating with other teams on solving 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. Does this with careful evaluation of additional cost on development

Qualifications

What does it take?

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience developing backend driven applications

• You approach your work with a strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix a customer pain-points

• You have great communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience

• You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development

• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

• You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers

• You have solid Java 17+ knowledge and experience with Spring framework

• You have front end experience with one of JavaScript frameworks like React or others

• You have experience working with relational databases, query optimisation and designing schema

• You are familiar with Continuous Delivery Approach mindset

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

Some extra skills that would be great:

• You have experience with financial systems

• You have knowledge of PostgreSQL, advanced types and query features

• You know your way around event driven architecture

• You have some Groovy experience

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