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Senior Backend Engineer - Screening engine

Wise

Wise

Software Engineering
Tallinn, Estonia
Posted on Oct 4, 2024

Company Description

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 16 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 an experienced 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.


Job Description

About the role

You will be responsible for building technical solutions with high regards to code quality, architecture applicability, performance, reliability and adherence to company-wide engineering standards.

How we work

We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with data analysts and scientists, product manager. The technical team operates from our Tallinn office, while the PM operates from the London office.

What will you be working on?

You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the screening engine. You will help us scale-up and build a world class transfer product.

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!

  • Experience working with Java, Spring framework, asynchronous message queues and have worked with microservices architecture – this is essential

  • You have experience working with large scale distributed systems

  • Comfortable working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey

  • Experience building and designing scalable and performing systems

  • You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas

  • A passion for international finance, foreign exchange and payment systems

  • You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

  • You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem

  • You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs

  • You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

  • You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development

Nice to have:

  • You have experience with Spring boot

Interested? Find out more


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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.

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