About The Spend Squad
We build products that allow our customers to spend their money anywhere in the world. We currently process about £34 billion annually and issue cards to over 40 countries. We are also building out features which localise the spending experience no matter where you are.
As a Software Engineer, you would be responsible for shipping the direct customer touch points on one of Wise's most impactful products and highest growth products.
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 cards flow
of Wise, growing our user base who uses cards. You'll ensure our customers get the best experience onboarding to cards and using it for the first time. You will also help with building efficient tooling for our Operations team to support global expansion
Create clear and helpful interfaces and documents, 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 customer problems, while coordinating with other teams on solving 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
Qualifications
What does it take?:
At least 3 years of hands-on experience developing backend driven applications
You approach your work with a strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix a customer pain-points
You have great communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers
You have solid Java 17+ knowledge and experience with Spring framework
You have front end experience with one of JavaScript frameworks like React or others
You have experience working with relational databases, query optimisation and designing schema
You are familiar with Continuous Delivery Approach mindset
…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!
Some extra skills that would be great:
You have experience with financial systems
You have knowledge of PostgreSQL, advanced types and query features
You know your way around event driven architecture
You have some Groovy experience
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.
Who we are
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold over 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cross-border payments network that will one day power money without borders for everyone, everywhere. However you use the platform, Wise is on a mission to make your life easier and save you money.
Co-founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus, Wise launched in 2011 under its original name TransferWise. It is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable technology companies and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker, WISE.
16 million people and businesses use Wise. In fiscal year 2023, Wise processed approximately £105 billion in cross-border transactions, saving customers around £1.5 billion.
What it’s really like to work here
At Wise, we do things a bit differently. There’s no corporate nonsense, and no old-fashioned hierarchy. Instead, we work in dozens of self-sufficient, autonomous teams. Think of them like start-ups within a start-up that learn from each other.
Each team picks the problems they want to solve. So there’s no micro-management. No hiding behind fancy job titles. And no one telling you what to do. You are your own boss. But you’ll get tons of guidance and plenty of support from talented, super-smart colleagues from all over Wise.
We’re going to be upfront — the way we work doesn’t suit everyone. But if freedom, autonomy, and life-affirming, head-scratching professional challenges rock your world, we could be a match made in heaven.