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Hybrid in London·Full-time·Added today (last checked 28 Oct)
Our summary
- Salary
- £111,000 - £145,000 a year
About £6,060 - £7,390 a month after tax.
- Work mode
- Hybrid, London
- Contract
- Full-time
- Experience
- Senior level




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What you'll get
Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering
Starting salary: £111,000 - £145,000 + RSUs
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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The role
We at Wise Platform aim to be the infrastructure that powers the world's money by connecting banks, financial institutions, and enterprises to our next-generation payment solutions. You’ll own and shape critical API infrastructure that serves partners such as Google, Deel, Ramp, and Agoda.
Within Wise Platform, the KYC Experience team owns the end-to-end onboarding and identity verification capabilities that make those partner integrations possible. We build the APIs and services that let our partners onboard their customers compliantly and seamlessly, setting the standard for what world-class embedded KYC looks like.
We’re looking for a product-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our team in London, helping build seamless KYC and Onboarding products for our partners. You'll work in an autonomous cross-functional team alongside other engineers, product, analytics, compliance and operations, with full autonomy to shape the direction of the Wise Platform KYC experience.
What will you be working on?
Design and build public-facing APIs for Wise Platform and our partners that are intuitive, consistent, and easy to use. We want to set the standard for seamless financial integrations
Own and drive technical roadmaps across your domain (squad/tribe level), ensuring technical debt, reliability, scalability, and security concerns are addressed and clearly connected to the product roadmap
Architect highly robust and scalable microservices using event-driven design patterns
Key influencer in product roadmapping and strategy sessions with product management and the rest of your cross-functional team
Lead impactful problems both within your team and beyond, driving high impact cross-team initiatives that unlock new features and value for our partners
Mentor and influence engineers and leads through code reviews and best practices, raising the bar for technical excellence across the discipline
Qualifications
Strong foundation in modern Java or other JVM based language, experience with the Spring framework, with a commitment to clean, testable, and highly performant code
Deep experience building and operating microservices, with a solid understanding of event-driven architecture, distributed system and concurrency patterns
Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems, including designing and owning robust, scalable event pipelines
Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases, including query optimization, schema design, and thoughtful data lifecycle management for sensitive information
Product-oriented thinking with a strong product mindset, prioritising customer needs and using data-driven decisions to shape roadmaps and fix partner problems
Experience leading cross-team and inter-disciplinary initiatives, coupled with a passion for clean, well-tested, performant code
Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and to guide debates to a clear decision
Hiring process
Recruiter conversation
With a recruiter · Phone call
Phone conversation about your experience and motivations; agree your coding language here.
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.
Backend system design
With an engineer
Design round that follows pair programming.
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.
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
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.
Location
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