Backend Engineer – Receive & Account

Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 10 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. We’re working on lots of exciting challenges, and you’ll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.

Tribe you will be working with: Receive & Account

Receive & Account consists of two main squads: In the Receive Squad, we are working on making it easy, fast and cheap for people and businesses to receive money internationally. We own a wide range of products from the payin platform that powers all the money movement into Wise’s engine, to local account details that enable customers to receive like a local. As a faist growing area, we’re working on adding new products and making our system even more robust and scalable for the future.

The Account Squad aims to provide an International Banking experience to all our customers, wherever they are based. Some of the products we are working on involve creating a platform that allows our customers to hold, spend, send, receive and invest their money. We build and iterate on core customer experiences. With our customers and scalability in mind, we are continuously challenging ourselves to improve the experience from a product and technical perspective.

What does it take?

• A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritize 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
• Ability to work independently while also being a good team player. 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 with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested 
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
• Experience working with relational and non-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

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

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
• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

Interested? Find out more:

•  How we work – a practical guide
• 📹 Wise Vlogs: Omar, Engineering Lead 
• 💻 The Wise Tech Stack, 2020 edition
• 📈 Our Engineering career map

…or check out our Engineering blog.

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