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Build and operate backend services for Wise’s banking and cash-management products. Own solutions from customer problem through production, design distributed systems, make technical tradeoffs, work across system boundaries, improve testing and observability, diagnose production issues, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on dependable services supporting funding, settlement, currency conversion, and international payments.

Build and support backend microservices and partner-facing APIs for Wise’s enterprise Partner Portal. Design permissions, role-based access control, SAML SSO integrations, communication workflows, fraud reporting, compliance case management, audit logging, and transaction visibility. Conduct technical discovery, document system designs, collaborate with compliance and KYC teams, and provide production support. The role emphasizes Java and Spring Boot, reliable enterprise software, REST API design, relational databases, and scalable event-driven architectures.

Design, build, test, and operate scalable Java backend services for banking and payment products. Own solutions from customer problem through production, make technical decisions, collaborate across system boundaries, improve reliability and observability, and contribute to code reviews, mentoring, and partner integrations. Work with microservices, Kafka-based event-driven architecture, PostgreSQL, and domain-driven design while supporting funding, settlement, and currency conversion capabilities.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Wise’s FX engineering stack across market data and risk teams. Build semi-automated hedge execution, real-time Flink streaming pipelines, Kafka infrastructure, quant model production systems, and high-throughput rate services. Lead reliability, incident response, technical roadmaps, system design, and engineering mentorship while collaborating with traders, quants, and treasury stakeholders.

Design and scale distributed, event-driven systems for AML, customer due diligence, and financial crime prevention across European and UK markets. Own risk architecture end to end, make critical technical decisions, mentor engineers, partner with Product, Compliance, and Data Science, and deliver real-time, auditable risk decisions using high-throughput systems.

Design and build public-facing APIs, scalable event-driven microservices, and KYC onboarding services for Wise Platform partners. Own technical roadmaps, improve reliability, scalability, security, and data management, and influence product strategy. Lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and promote clean, tested, high-performance code while collaborating with product, analytics, compliance, and operations teams.

Lead a hands-on embedded finance engineering team by designing, developing, and maintaining scalable services. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, promote coding and delivery best practices, and own the team’s product and services. Partner with Product Management and cross-functional teams to define roadmaps, improve platform capabilities, and deliver reliable embedded finance solutions for enterprise partners.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and REST APIs for Wise’s Payin Platform. Build payment orchestration and card pay-in systems handling high-volume financial transactions, using AWS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and event-driven architectures. Optimize performance, implement automated tests, participate in on-call support, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure handling of financial data while collaborating across product and engineering teams.

Leads an engineering team building Wise’s current account and everyday banking products. Responsibilities include managing and developing engineers, writing and reviewing code, driving backend, web, and mobile features, owning the technical roadmap, making architectural decisions, and ensuring system reliability, scalability, and correctness. Partners with Product and Design, coordinates with adjacent teams, and balances technical delivery with customer and business impact.

Build and scale financial products within Wise’s Grow squad. Engineers will either architect a high-availability yield engine managing billions in assets or create brokerage and investment infrastructure from scratch. Responsibilities include designing distributed systems, developing production web applications, collaborating with product and design teams, breaking complex work into milestones, ensuring data integrity and performance, and delivering customer-focused features through clean, well-tested code.