Senior Software Engineer, Wise
API Experience
£80-102k
+ RSUs
1-5 days a week in office
Money without borders
Posted today
Money without borders
1001+ employees
Posted today
£80-102k
+ RSUs
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
We’re on a mission. And it’s money without borders. Instant, convenient, transparent and — eventually — free.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in designing, building and maintaining public APIs for commercial purposes. RESTful APIs, API Design, Swagger, OpenAPI, OAuth2
- Backend Microservices: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot
- Architecture and Design Patterns: Familiarity with common design patterns and architectural principles, including domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architecture (EDA), and microservices architecture
- A strong independent thinker who is also eager to accept feedback and collaborate
- Understands the value of balancing customer centric thinking with technical know-how, and can bridge the gap between business and technical experts
- Considers more than just customer impact; also the long term financial and architectural costs of the solutions we build
- Puts the customer above technology, while finding ways to leverage technology to improve experience
Desirable
- Understanding of payments systems, financial technology, and the complexities of funding, settling, and sending payments internationally
- Ability to design, optimise, and maintain databases using a variety of technologies, in particular relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Can communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience, present topics to a group, etc
What the job involves
- Wise Platform helps banks, software companies, and large enterprises leverage Wise's infrastructure to offer their customers world-class payment products through our API
- We're a cross-functional team across sales, account management, product, engineering, compliance, analytics, and many other functions
- We're based across the world - from New York to London, to Singapore, and beyond
- We’re looking for a Product Engineer to join our growing API Experience team in London
- The API Experience team is responsible for some of the most critical systems at Wise, the public API gateway and authorization systems used by our own systems and our partners
- Our goal is to increase efficiency during integration with our platform by setting the gold-standard for intuitive, consistent, enterprise-ready APIs, and to enable seamless integration of those APIs with developer-friendly tools
- Learning about the challenges for our large API partnerships, and to help solve them
- Balancing practical challenges in improving API design, implementation and best practices to non-centralised “empowered” engineering teams across the organisation
- Working across the tech stack, supporting on frontend and infrastructure
- Assist partners in the implementation phase, defining technical solutions and documenting requirements
- Participate in feature definition, prioritisation, and long-term strategy planning with the team
- Collaborate with Implementation Managers, Product Managers, and other Engineers, you will be empowered to make product and project decisions
- Improve integration experience through documentation, APIs, SDKs, code samples, and reference implementations
- Design and develop new features for Wise services and expose them on the public API when needed
- Travel to meet with our engineers in Tallinn as well as other travel opportunities
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Wise started when the two founders realised they would be better off trading Estonian kroons for British pounds (and vice versa) between themselves rather than going through banks. That was back in 2011, and they've since grown Wise into one of Europe's most successful tech businesses, exchanging billions of currency every month.
Wise rapidly grew by solving a significant problem for customers, who lost too much money to banks when exchanging currency. They've attracted investment from some of the best investors in the world, from Andreesen Horowitz to Index Ventures and even Richard Branson.
The challenge for Wise will be maintaining their edge and brand power in a market that's becoming increasingly crowded with new entrants (like Revolut and Monzo) and incumbents (traditional banks) trying to catch up. To do so, the company is ramping up its digital and marketing strategies, as well as pushing for further development of its existing products.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Flexible working
"I'm trusted to do my work regardless of whether I'm in the office or working from my spare room. Our mobile wiser scheme gives us the opportunity to..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2017
$280m
SERIES E
May 2016
$24.7m
SERIES D
Total funding: $395.1m
Company benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Discounts
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) + 3 Me Days
- RSUs (Restricted Stock Units)
- 6 Week Paid Sabbatical
- Mobile Wiser - work remote for up to 90 days a year 🛫
- Parental Leave
- Pension and Retirement Plans
- Plus Many More!
Company values
- This isn’t just a job, we’re a revolution
- We get it done
- Customers > team > ego
- No drama. Good karma.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Taavet Hinrikus
(Chairman)Previously Director of Strategy for Skype.
Kristo Käärmann
(CEO)Previously a Consultant at PwC and Manager at Deloitte.
People progressing
Joined as Banking Lead, promoted to Head of Banking after 2 years, then again to Global Head of Banking.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Wise
- Communities and safe spaces (Employee Resource Groups) – led by our Wisers so people can share experiences and information, support each other and connect on shared values
- Wise Cultural Calendar – a programme to learn and celebrate the wide range of cultures, traditions, backgrounds, and global experiences we have here at Wise. Example programmes include Pride Summer and Black History Month
- Our teams continue to set and drive their own bespoke objectives, holding themselves accountable and making sure they focus efforts where they can have the most impact
- We’re excited to partner with InChorus to collect ongoing data on our culture and enable teams to track their progress
- DEI development and training — We’re building our capability and getting everyone on the same page about DEI. Our new training programme will help new joiners and all Wisers know what DEI looks like day-to-day and how they can play their part
- Global policy review — We’re working with an external advisor to provide detailed feedback on best practices in policies by end January
- Disability inclusion – We’re building resources and support for Wisers and candidates with disabilities. Our goals is to offer practical information and support to ensure that Wise remains an inclusive environment for those impacted by a disability
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