Senior Software Engineer I - Product Eligibility
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Wise. London · full-time · £87,500–£111,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Shape the technical direction for your domain as part of a self-directed engineering team
- Rework how customer residence, current location and address details are collected and checked
- Build platform capabilities and back-office tools, with occasional work on customer-facing journeys
- Help product teams extend platform support for additional products and markets
What you bring
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at large scale
- Strong Java 8 or newer skills, plus work with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience designing, releasing and maintaining REST APIs, including schema design and query tuning
- A customer-focused product approach, with sound coding practices, peer reviews and testable code
Who this fits
You’ll suit a senior engineer who works closely with product and analysis colleagues and helps set technical direction. The team works across London and Cherkasy; this role is based in London, and you must already be in the UK or able to work from there, as relocation support is unavailable.
From the employer
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.
We’re unable to support relocation for this role, so candidates will need to already be based in (or able to work from) the UK.
Product Eligibility team is a fairly new team that was formed under Regional Platform Squad. We are one of the longest-running squads in the company building the platform for the core domains of Wise - Transfer, Payout and Partner Integrations. Besides that we are supporting product teams to extend the Platform capabilities for the new products and the new markets.
Product Eligibility team's main goal is to help Wise accurately determine which products and features are available to a particular customer.
To achieve this, we need to make sure we have a clear understanding of where our customers reside or operate business. As such, one of the first big challenges the team will tackle is overhauling of how Wise captures and validates customer's residence, present location and address information.
How we work
We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our London and Cherkasy offices.
What will you be working on?
You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the owned domain. Contributing to the platform, back office tooling and episodically to the customer-facing flows. You will help us scale-up and build a world class transfer product.
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 experience working with large scale distributed systems
You have years of Java 8+ knowledge
You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
Nice to have:
You have experience with Spring boot
You have experience with Kafka
You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)
Interested? Find out more:
Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering
What do we offer:
Starting salary: £87,500 - £111,000
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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