Company Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. 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.
About The Role
The EU & UK Onboarding Experience team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us redefine the onboarding experience for our European and UK customers. We’re building a convenient and scalable onboarding journey that empowers hundreds of thousands of customers while staying fully aligned with local regulatory standards. Our mission is to make the onboarding journey for personal and business customers effortless and frustration‑free. By building custom flows and collecting only essential information, we streamline the process while building robust defenses against financial crime. This allows us to scale Europe smarter, not harder. We’re automating information collection and review to accelerate onboarding for our customers and enable the company to grow seamlessly without needing to expand our servicing teams proportionally.
What Will You Be Doing
- You’ll design and build highly available, robust distributed backend systems.
- Improve our Know Your Customer (KYC) flows to provide the best possible onboarding experience for our customers.
- Creating scalable solutions for verification methods.
- Designing and implementing onboarding initiatives that adapt to regional needs.
- Participating in product roadmapping and strategy sessions with the product management team.
- Owning a technical roadmap to ensure that our application is maintained to high standards.
- Translating product requirements into technical specifications.
- Ensuring code quality, consistency, and maintainability through code reviews and best practices.
- Actively collaborating with other teams and leading projects from the beginning till the release.
What do you need?
- Experience with Java or other JVM-based languages, Spring framework, and deep understanding of JDBC and database internals.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and distributed and concurrent systems.
- Experience with machine learning basics (data pipelines, feature engineering, recall/precision, familiarity with ML systems in production) is a huge plus.
- A strong product mindset and passion for user experience; you prioritise work with customers in mind and make data‑driven decisions to fix customer pain points.
- Ability to work independently on customer problems and take end‑to‑end ownership of projects.
- Close collaboration with product managers, data scientists, data analysts, engineers and other product teams is a must.
- Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
- Experience working with relational and non‑relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas.
- Enjoy writing testable code and Believe in Test‑Driven Development.
- Follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback.
What Do We Offer
- Starting salary: £87,500 – £111,000 + RSUs.
- Wise Benefits (healthcare, pension, flexible working, etc.)
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