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.

We’re looking for a strong Senior Backend Engineer to join our Wise Platform - Developer Experience team. 

Wise Platform helps banks, software companies and large enterprises leverage Wise’s infrastructure to offer their customers world class payments products through their own channels. Wise Platform is a start-up within a scale up.  We’re a cross functional team across sales, account management, product, engineering, compliance, analytics and many other functions. We’re based across the world - from New York, to London, to Singapore and beyond. 

Role Overview:

As a Senior Product Engineer on the Developer Experience team at Wise Platform, you’ll be working at the forefront of innovation. You’ll collaborate closely with our Implementation, Solutions Engineering,Business Development, and other Wise Engineering teams to build tools to make it as seamless and delightful as possible for developers to integrate and embark on new and thrilling projects that expand our network of global partnerships. 

You’ll design and implement scalable code to support our partner ecosystem’s rapid growth, collaborate with talented engineering teams, explore various domains, and contribute to over 700 microservices at Wise. Team up with the deal flow team and product managers to integrate our platform with global partners and drive the development of high-quality, lightning-fast money transfers using Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes.

At Wise, we believe in fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing, so you’ll have the opportunity to become an expert in the Developer Experience domain and share your wisdom with the wider company during planning sessions. We value your active involvement in cross-team collaboration, representing Wise Platform and championing quality. You’ll also get to be a mentor and guide to our talented junior engineers, providing them with technical leadership and promoting best practices.

To excel in this role, you should have a passion for building tools for developers to make building their integration easier and faster, while building products that are scalable, maintainable, and usable. We’re seeking someone with extensive hands-on experience in Java and Spring Boot, a solid understanding of Kubernetes and containerization, and proficiency in designing and developing databases using PostgreSQL or similar relational databases. 

If you have a proven track record of building open source products that have been used by developers outside of your organisation, along with excellent problem-solving skills and outstanding communication and collaboration abilities, then you’re exactly who we’re looking for!

What does it take?

• 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
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently while also being a good team player. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested 
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus
• Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus… but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

What does success look like?

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
• You’ll understand the challenges of integrating with our API product and how to go about solving them
• You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

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.

Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.

Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer’s needs and make sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

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.

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