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Software Engineer - Hold

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Hybrid
London, Greater London, England
Mid level
Hybrid
London, Greater London, England
Mid level
As a Software Engineer on the Hold team at Wise, you will work on customer-facing features and maintain the main ledger that processes millions of transactions. You will focus on scalability, APIs, and cross-team collaboration, while needing a strong product mindset and experience in web applications.
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Company Description

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.

Job Description

About the role 

Team you’ll be working in: Hold

The Hold team is part of the Global Product tribe. The team has dual nature - one one side we are product team - we work end to end on customer facing features, such as sharing account for multiple people, converting money from currency to currency, adding money to account; on the other side - we own and evolve the main ledger of Wise Account - processing millions of transactions per day and powering Card spending, Direct Debits and other products.

What will you be working on?

  • Mission-critical components of Wise Account, their scalability and public APIs

  • Product surfaces that customers interact with on a daily basis - currencies, money movements, etc.

  • Recently launched Group Spending product - our take on classical Joint Accounts.

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

  • 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 audiences

  • Leading and inspiring your team of engineers to build the prioritise building right things, in the right way 

  • Ability to deliver work across multiple teams, coordinating your efforts across the organisation.. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.

  • Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value

  • Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment

  • Experience working with relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus

  • Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus

Interested? Find out more:

  • The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 Edition.

  • Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

  • Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer: 

  • Starting salary: £60,000-£80,000 + RSU

  • Wise Benefits

Additional Information

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.

Top Skills

Java
Kafka
Relational Databases
Spring Boot

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