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Senior Software Engineer

On-site in London·Full-time·Added 11 days ago (last checked 9 Oct)

Wise

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Overview

Job details

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

Requirements

  • Work on-site in London

    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 Software Engineer to join our Recommend team in the London office.
The Recommend team builds and owns the recommendation experience that allows customers to recommend Wise to their friends, family or connections and brings new customers to Wise through the recommendations. From building referral platforms, to creating smooth onboarding experience for referred customers and building reward mechanisms, we own the whole journey until the first international money needs are met. Our team is dedicated to building the best recommendation journey and diverse reward mechanisms to solve customers' first international money needs in a way that’s clear, easy and delightful. Our team is diverse and is made of software engineers, data analysts, and designers and more who collaborate on a daily basis to continuously improve customer experience with recommendation journeys at Wise.

We are looking for a Senior Backed Engineer to help us evolve and scale our recommendation platform and reward mechanisms for our customers all over the world. You will get the opportunity to build the systems, APIs and product experiences that help us shape the first experience of many of our soon-to-be-new customers

Job Description

What will you be working on?

Qualifications

What do you need?:

  • 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin (or other JVM based language)
  • Strong experience with Spring framework, relational databases, distributed and concurrent systems (Kafka)
  • Close collaboration with product managers, data scientists, data analysts, engineers and other product teams is a must have and is something to expect to happen on a daily basis
  • 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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