Engineer

About the Spend Squad and Travel Experience

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. Our team mainly focuses on improving the traveller segment, making travel easier for our customers.

As a Software Engineer, you would be responsible for shipping the direct customer touch points on one of Wise's most impactful products and highest growth products.

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

Building and improving a wide variety of surfaces and flows in Wise, mainly focusing on growing our traveller user base. You’ll ensure our customers get the best travel experience when they use Wise, from spending abroad with a card, to getting connected via eSIM data plans.

Create clear and helpful interfaces, 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 problems. Coordinates with others on cross-cutting technical issues

Drive product improvement that impacts the Wise customer experience or empowers internal stakeholders 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

A bit about you

You have solid Java 17 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework

You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design

You approach challenges with a strong product mindset, prioritise customer needs and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

You have led the design and development of complex engineering solutions and understand their broader impact on business outcomes.

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

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

You have front end experience in technologies like React, Next, Svelte or Angular

You are familiar with Continuous Integration and deployment frameworks

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

Some extra skills and experiences that would be great:
You have experience with financial systems including how payments and digital onboarding flows work

You have some Groovy experience

You have experience in technical leadership - maintain technical excellence of your team, managing performance, giving feedback, and coaching engineers to thrive

What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise:
We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by the impact you create and the complexity of problems you can help solve. As a Senior Software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the licence to:

Lead medium to large (8-16 engineering weeks) sized projects that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers

Own the technical domain of your team with a view on how it should move forward

Propose ideas to improve and grow your team’s product

Embrace long-term ownership of projects while training other engineers to reduce single points of failure

Architect and design services that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling

Collaborate closely across functions like product, analytics, design, and operations to ensure smooth and effective delivery

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

Who we are

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold over 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cross-border payments network that will one day power money without borders for everyone, everywhere. However you use the platform, Wise is on a mission to make your life easier and save you money.

Co-founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus, Wise launched in 2011 under its original name TransferWise. It is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable technology companies and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker, WISE.

16 million people and businesses use Wise. In fiscal year 2023, Wise processed approximately £105 billion in cross-border transactions, saving customers around £1.5 billion.

What it’s really like to work here

At Wise, we do things a bit differently. There’s no corporate nonsense, and no old-fashioned hierarchy. Instead, we work in dozens of self-sufficient, autonomous teams. Think of them like start-ups within a start-up that learn from each other.

Each team picks the problems they want to solve. So there’s no micro-management. No hiding behind fancy job titles. And no one telling you what to do. You are your own boss. But you’ll get tons of guidance and plenty of support from talented, super-smart colleagues from all over Wise.

We’re going to be upfront — the way we work doesn’t suit everyone. But if freedom, autonomy, and life-affirming, head-scratching professional challenges rock your world, we could be a match made in heaven.