Senior Software Engineer I - Payment Processing Platform

Senior Software Engineer I - Payment Processing Platform

Wise

London, GB

• Job Type: Full-Time
• Function: Engineering Software
• Industry: Fintech & Crypto
• Post Date: 05/27/2025
• Company Address: The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6JJ, United Kingdom
• Salary Range: $114,869 - $141,879

About Wise

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world.

Job Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Payment Processing Platform

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 it take:

• 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 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

What you get back:

• The empowerment to solve problems your way and the freedom to have real impact on customers' lives.
• Loads of development opportunities in a growing team through launching new products / features consistently in an in-demand region.
• A fun work environment with social activities and events
• Travel opportunities to other Wise offices around the world
• The opportunity to work with super smart people
• The salary ranges between £85,000 - £105,000 with an RSU package

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.

• 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
  
  Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world., Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere., 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.


• 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
What you get back:
• The empowerment to solve problems your way and the freedom to have real impact on customers' lives.
• Loads of development opportunities in a growing team through launching new products / features consistently in an in-demand region.
• A fun work environment with social activities and events
• Travel opportunities to other Wise offices around the world
• The opportunity to work with super smart people
• The salary ranges between £85,000 - £105,000 with an RSU package