Wise is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 13 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.

Current banking systems don't let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. 

So, we’re building a new one.

And, we need a Backend Engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. Our dynamic team is strongly oriented toward backend development, with a steadfast commitment to crafting a groundbreaking platform that empowers our customers to seamlessly access funds just like locals. Our current monthly transaction volume exceeds an impressive £4 billion, underscoring our dedication to delivering an effortless, equitable, and dependable financial experience. Our overarching mission is to facilitate swift, convenient, and trustworthy cross-border bank transfers in any currency, across every corner of the globe.

• A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
• You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
• You have solid Java 11 plus knowledge, experience with Spring framework and microservice best practices
• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Distributed and Concurrent Systems
• Hands on knowledge of system integration patterns 

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
• You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them
• You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
• Understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class money transfer product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

• The autonomy to solve problems your way
• The freedom to have real impact
• Loads of development opportunities 
• A fun work environment with social activities and events
• The opportunity to work with super smart people

Find out more about our benefits in our London office.

Interested? Find out more:

• 👀 How we work - a practical guide
• 💻 The Wise Tech Stack, 2020 edition
• ☁️ How Wise built the world’s first cloud-based card processing 
• 📈 Our Engineering career map

...or check out our Engineering blog.

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We're people 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.

Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work. Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.

Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer's needs and life experiences and makes sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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