Senior Software Engineer

Wise group; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is building the infrastructure for money with a clear ambition: to become the everyday account people rely on, whether they're managing money at home or across borders. As a Software Engineer on the North America Account team, you'll work on products that customers interact with every day.

You'll own meaningful problems from discovery through production, improving reliability and the experience of receiving money.

Qualifications

• Software Engineer with strong backend development experience.
• Experience building scalable services and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with databases, APIs, and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end-to-end from discovery to production.
• Build and evolve highly available backend services in Java/Spring Boot.
• Design resilient distributed systems with scalable APIs.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Operations teams.
• Write maintainable, well-tested software and improve tooling.
• Mentor teammates and share knowledge to reduce silos.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Relational databases

Microservices

APIs

Distributed systems

Observability

Security

Reliability

Tools

Relational databases

APIs

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 building the infrastructure for money with a clear ambition: to become the everyday account people rely on, whether they're managing money at home or across borders. Customers should be able to receive their salary, pay bills, earn on their balances, and move money internationally—all from a single account that is simple & transparent. As a Software Engineer on the North America Account team, you'll work on products that customers interact with every day. You'll own meaningful problems from discovery through production, improving the reliability and experience of receiving money, expanding access to local account capabilities, evolving our interest offering, and building the platform that powers Wise's everyday account experience in North America. Your work will directly influence customer growth, engagement, trust, retention, and the value customers receive from holding money with Wise.

Key responsibilities

• Bring a strong product mindset, connecting engineering decisions to customer outcomes such as account adoption, customer engagement, reliability, trust, and long-term value.
• Take end-to-end ownership of impactful projects, from understanding customer problems and shaping solutions through implementation, rollout, measurement, and ongoing operational excellence.
• Build and evolve highly available backend services using Java, Spring Boot, relational databases, microservices, and well-designed APIs.
• Design resilient distributed systems with thoughtful approaches to asynchronous processing, data consistency, observability, scalability, security, and operational reliability.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Operations, Compliance, Treasury, and other engineering teams to deliver solutions that balance customer experience, regulatory requirements, and technical excellence.
• Write maintainable, well-tested software while continuously improving engineering practices, operational tooling, and service health.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences and contribute to collaborative decision-making across teams.
• Raise the engineering bar by mentoring teammates, providing constructive feedback, reviewing designs and code, and reducing operational and knowledge silos across the team.

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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