Senior Software Engineer I - Java

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.

Salary range: SGD $147,000 - $180,000 per annum + RSUs

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our growing team in Singapore. The role is a unique opportunity to build beautifully simple experiences that guide our customers through Wise, helping them to live, travel and work without borders.

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

• Working on the core flow of Wise, you'll ensure our customers get the best experience even when things don’t go as planned by building self service solutions, automating the resolution and building efficient tooling for our Operations team.

• 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 (teams like Operations, Customer Support, Finance, etc.) 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

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

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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