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Backend Engineer - Organic Growth

£80,000 – £102,000
  1. Technology
  2. London

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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 life 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.


Job Description

We need an experienced Backend Engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. We’re working on lots of exciting challenges, and you’ll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.

Organic Growth team maintains and develops some of Wise’s most visited pages. We make sure that these pages provide high quality content, and our services perform well under a lot of traffic.

How we work

We build products that will make customer acquisition eventually free. We do that by building systems that allow us to build a large number of pages at scale, while making sure that the quality of these pages stays high. This is accomplished through maintaining and improving internal content management systems, as well as through integration with 3rd party data providers. 

What will you be working on?

  • Building scalable systems, as they serve a large portion of Wise’s traffic

  • Collaborate with the security team on strengthening our security posture

  • Participate in a team on-call rotation

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!

  • You have solid Java knowledge, experience with Spring framework and microservice best practices

  • The ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience

  • You enjoy writing testable, easy to extend, high-quality code

  • Experience Distributed and Concurrent Systems

  • Hands on knowledge of microservice architecture patterns

Nice to have: 

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

  • Advocate for best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

Interested? Find out more

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N.B This position will be based in Wise's London, UK Office. Wise cannot provide relocation/visa support for candidates outside of UK for this role. 


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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