Software Engineer, Account Discovery

Job Description

We’re hiring a Backend Engineer to join our Account Discovery team—the primary gateway into Wise.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services that generate near real‑time account overviews (recent actions, balances, key events) that are easy to understand and trust.
• Develop recommendation and discovery capabilities that are personalised, context‑aware, and measurable.
• Build APIs and supporting systems that make the dashboard fast, consistent and available across devices and regions.
• Build high‑scale, low‑latency back‑end services that stay fast under heavy traffic, balancing real‑time freshness with rock‑solid correctness and delivering personalisation at scale.
• Tackle distributed systems complexity (resilience, failures, retries, idempotency).
• Enable experimentation and measurement (A/B testing, instrumentation).
• Engineer with security, privacy and compliance baked in from day one.

Qualifications

• Software development experience (preferably using Java).
• A strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, prioritising work with the customers in mind and making data‑driven decisions to fix customer pain‑points.
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas.
• Enjoy writing clean and testable code.
• Believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and distributed and concurrent systems.

Benefits

• RSU’s in a growing company
• An annual self‑development budget
• Statutory maternity leave, with a perk of 18 fully paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity leave for 18 weeks at full pay
• 3 fully paid “me days” per year to help you manage life
• Relocation and visa expenses covered
• A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

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