Company Description
Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got over 16 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.
Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.
So, we’re building a new one.
And, we need a 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.
Job Description
Team you will be working with: Receive Adoption
The Receive Adoption team is a global product team working to help customers discover and adopt Wise for receiving third party payments. We do this by building new products and features as well as working to reduce the friction our existing customers have receiving into Wise. We are proud to support 8+ local account details and 17+ global account details and work with our regional teams to ensure these details are as convenient as possible. Customers can use these account details, as well as other payment methods (card, pay with wise, open banking), to create link products, invoices and profile links as well as setting up direct debits or receiving from online marketplaces.
Qualifications
What we expect from you:
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You have 7+ years of Java 8+ knowledge, experience with Spring framework
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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
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Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
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Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
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You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
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You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
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Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Distributed and Concurrent Systems
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Hands on knowledge of system integration patterns
What does success look like?
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You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
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You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
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You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them
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You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
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You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
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You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities
Additional Information
What do we offer?
- Starting salary: £80,000 - £102,000 Base Salary + RSUs
- Numerous great benefits in our London office
Interested? Find out more:
👀 How we work: a practical guide
⚙️ The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition
📈 Our Engineering career map
🎉 Our benefits
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.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Top Skills
What We Do
We’re making a positive, irreversible change in the world of finance. Together.
People on every continent around the world are choosing Wise to help them live, travel and work internationally. We’re the fairest, easiest way to send money overseas.
Built by and for people who live global lives, we make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. This is money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.
For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B, but behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies and routes, that’s being designed, built and powered by our talented teams in cities around the world.
We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.
Why Work With Us
We are a mission-driven company, looking to change banking for the better. Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So, we’re building a new one. If you're looking for an autonomous work environment, where you'll face cool challenges, learn and grow, you'll like working at Wise
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Here at Wise we have a hybrid working model – a mix of working from home and from the office. Wisers can also work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to!
