Senior Software Engineer - Java

At Wise, we’re on a mission to make money borderless, instant, and convenient for millions of people and businesses worldwide. Our engineers are at the heart of this mission, solving complex challenges and building seamless, secure solutions that customers love.

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Job Description We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing teams in Singapore. The role is a unique opportunity to build beautifully simple experiences that guide our customers through Wise, helping them to live, travel and work without borders.

How you’ll be contributing to our Engineering team:

Help us take Wise to the next level as we scale to impact 100's of millions more customers. You'll hide away all complexities under the hood of our product and build seamless experiences for our customers

Contribute to core application functionalities, ensuring a robust and positive user experience, especially during unexpected scenarios or issues.

Create clear and helpful interfaces, whilst maintaining consistency, maintainability, performance and an understanding of what problems our customers might encounter along the way

Take initiative to identify and solve important problems. Coordinates with others on cross-cutting technical issues

Drive product improvement that impacts the Wise customer experience or empowers internal stakeholders to do their job effectively.

Proactively identify and tackle technical debt becoming too big through planning work and aligning the team. Does this with careful evaluation of additional cost on development

Qualifications A bit about you

You have solid Java 17 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework

You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design

You approach challenges with a strong product mindset, prioritise customer needs and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

You have led the design and development of complex engineering solutions and understand their broader impact on business outcomes.

You have excellent communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience

You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers

You have front end experience in technologies like React, Next, Svelte or Angular

You are familiar with Continuous Integration and deployment frameworks

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Some extra skills and experiences that would be great:

You have experience with financial systems including how payments and digital onboarding flows work

You have some Groovy experience

You have experience in technical leadership - maintain technical excellence of your team, managing performance, giving feedback, and coaching engineers to thrive

What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise: We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by the impact you create and the complexity of problems you can help solve. As a Senior Software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the licence to:

Lead medium to large (8-16 engineering weeks) sized projects that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers

Own the technical domain of your team with a view on how it should move forward

Propose ideas to improve and grow your team’s product

Embrace long‑term ownership of projects while training other engineers to reduce single points of failure

Architect and design services that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling

Collaborate closely across functions like product, analytics, design, and operations to ensure smooth and effective delivery

To get the best view of what we expect at all levels of our engineering team, you can take a look at our Engineering Career Map

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