Wise
Senior Software Engineer I – Contacts Team
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Backend Engineer – Recipient Contact Management Team
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 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
Job Description
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:
- From the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to,
- To the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery,
- All the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their 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 engineers, designers, the product manager, and analysts collaborating closely. The team works across our Tallinn and London offices.
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What You Will Be Working On
You will join an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient’s user experience. You will help us scale up and build a world-class recipient management product.
Requirements
We understand that candidates unlikely have all of these skills. We support learning new things—so if you have some of them and are eager to grow, we want to hear from you!
Essential
✅ Get things done – Efficiently execute and make progress. ✅ Experience working with large-scale distributed systems. ✅ Strong knowledge of Java. ✅ Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including:
- Query optimisation,
- Designing schemas for scalability. ✅ A strong product mindset and customer-first approach.
- Prioritise work based on customer pain points,
- Make data-driven decisions. ✅ Enjoy collaborating with teams, bringing people together to solve challenges. ✅ Experience in:
- Designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs. ✅ Commit to best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback.
- Strong belief in test-driven development (TDT),
- Writing testable code.
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Nice-to-Have
👉 Experience with Spring Boot. 👉 Worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends).
What We Offer
Compensation & Benefits
🔸 Salary: GBP £87,500–£111,000 per year, plus RSUs. 🔸 Wise Benefits – Discover more on Wise Jobs.
Wise Culture
For everyone, everywhere. We’re building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice. We believe teams thrive when they are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
🔸 A truly international team celebrating differences. 🔸 Empowering employees to contribute, feel respected, and progress. 🔸 Ongoing support for growth and career development.
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