Lead Software Engineer, Wise

Payment Processing Platform

ÂŁ102-130k

+RSU

Java
Spring
Senior and Expert level
London

1-5 days a week in office

Wise

Money without borders

Job no longer available

Wise

Money without borders

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BPersonal financePaymentsForeign exchange

Job no longer available

ÂŁ102-130k

+RSU

Java
Spring
Senior and Expert level
London

1-5 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BPersonal financePaymentsForeign exchange

Company mission

We’re on a mission. And it’s money without borders. Instant, convenient, transparent and — eventually — free.

Role

Who you are

  • 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 to drive cross team projects
  • The ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
  • You enjoy writing testable, easy to extend, high-quality code
  • You have solid Java 11 plus knowledge, experience with Spring framework and microservice best practices
  • Advocate for best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
  • Experience Distributed and Concurrent Systems
  • Hands on knowledge of microservice architecture patterns
  • Experience working with relational databases, messaging queues and designing schemas

What the job involves

  • Our goal is to provide reliable and scalable services that can be used by all the other product teams in the company. We provide such systems for transfers, and payouts domains
  • We want our platform to be easy to use, integrate, and extend, while also enforcing good practices, risks mitigation, and maintaining high performance
  • What does success look like?:
  • 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

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Insights

Top investors

38% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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!

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Nov 2017

$280m

SERIES E

May 2016

$26.8m

SERIES D

Total funding: $397.2m

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.

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