Wise
Senior Software Engineer I – Contacts Team
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Contributions Team Engineer – Recipient Management Backend
Company 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 makes their lives easier and saves 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.
Job Description
About the Role
The Contacts team is a core team at Wise, dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end:
- Scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts
- Intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix)
- Customer-facing screens where users interact with counterparties
The team is integral to Wise’s day-to-day operations—if our services go down, Wise goes down.
How We Work
We operate in an agile fashion, with developers closely collaborating with designers, product managers, and analysts. The team functions across our Tallinn and London offices.
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What You’ll Work On
As part of an autonomous team, you will:
- Drive the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient’s user experience.
- Help scale up and build a world-class recipient management product.
Qualifications
Requirements
We recognise that few candidates will have all required skills, so we support continuous learning at every level.
What you need:
- You get things done – You’re results-driven and thrive pushing forward with tight deadlines and stakeholder alignment.
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Java knowledge (experience expected).
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, along with query optimisation and schema design.
- A strong product mindset and passion for customer experience – You prioritise user needs and make data-driven decisions to resolve pain points.
- Enjoy collaborating with others and fostering teamwork when solving complex problems.
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining clean, RESTful APIs.
- Commit to and follow best coding practices – code reviews and providing constructive feedback.
- Believe in and practice Test Driven Development (TDD); you enjoy writing testable code.
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Nice to Have
- Spring Boot experience.
- Experience with Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs).
Our Culture and Values
At Wise, we believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
- We’re building money without borders—without judgement or prejudice.
- We treasure our international team and celebrate our differences.
- Inclusive teams help us live our values so that every Wiser—whatever their background—feels respected, empowered, and supported.
To learn more about working at Wise, check out Wise.Jobs.
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Compensation: £87,500 - £111,000 (yearly, paid annually).
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