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Senior Software Engineer II - Payin Platform - Backend (Java)

Hybrid in London·Full-time·Added 2 months ago (last checked 9 Oct)

Wise

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Overview

Job details

  • £111,000 - £145,000 a year

    Gross, as stated in the ad.

    About £6,060 - £7,390 a month after tax.

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Requirements

  • Be near London for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have 5+ years of experience

    Senior-level role.

Skills

Nice to have

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

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.

The role

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Payin Platform team in the London office. This team owns layer that powers how money enters Wise. The platform sits between our product teams (Transfer, Acquiring Payment, and any new product that needs to take money in) and the payment methods we support (Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Balance, Bank Transfer, PISP, UPI, Direct Debit, and more).
 

What will you be working on?

Rather than owning a single payment method, we build the Payin Session and Payment abstractions that let every product integrate a payment method once and scale to millions of transactions without re-solving the same problems. 

This is a high-volume, high-leverage platform role: the systems you build are used by many teams across the company, so correctness, reliability, and thoughtful API design matter enormously.

What do you need?

  • 5+ years of experience in Java, Kotlin, Python or Go 

  • Strong experience with Spring framework, relational databases, distributed and concurrent systems (Kafka)

  • Great cross-team communication - Can discuss and champion complex, technical topics with a wide and varied audience, from fellow engineers to non-technical stakeholders across lots of teams.

  • You enjoy writing testable code and you have experience in testing strategies, such as unit testing, integration testing

  • You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

  • You have great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience

  • You strive to improve our team culture and processes

  • 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

  • Being able to work independently on customer problems is a key to success - you take responsibility and end-to-end ownership of your projects: drive and own them to make sure we hit the goals we want to achieve

Hiring process

4 steps4 interviews
  1. Recruiter conversation

    With a recruiter · Phone call

    Phone conversation about your experience and motivations; agree your coding language here.

  2. Backend pair programming

    With an engineer · Video call · 60 min

    Solve a technical problem collaboratively on HackerRank; first stage of the technical process. Any language, Java preferred.

  3. Backend system design

    With an engineer

    Design round that follows pair programming.

  4. Product round

    With one or two cross-team stakeholders led by Product Managers, possibly designers or analysts · Video call · 45–60 min

    Conversational walk-through of a project you are proud of: impact, trade-offs, data and cross-functional work.

  5. Offer

  • Front-end engineers follow the same shape with front-end pair programming and system design rounds.
  • Interviews mostly take place over Zoom; some interviewers ask for in-person interviews.

About Wise

Industry
Fintech
Headquarters
London, UK
Website
wise.com

In their own words

About the company & team

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.

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