Wise
Senior Software Engineer I – Contacts Team
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**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.
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**About the Role**
The **Contacts team** is a core team at Wise, dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as simple as possible. You’ll own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts to intelligent search algorithms, local integrations (such as **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**.
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**How We Work**
We operate in an **agile** fashion, with engineers collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and analysts. The team spans our **Tallinn** and **London** offices.
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Key Responsibilities You’ll be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering recipients' user experience. Your work will help scale-up and build a world-class recipient management product.
Requirements
We understand not every candidate will have all qualifications — and we welcome curiosity and enthusiasm as much as experience.
Core Skills
- Proven ability to deliver results efficiently
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Strong Java expertise
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design
- A product-focused mindset with passion for customer experience — prioritising customer needs to address pain points using data-driven decisions
- Collaboration-focused with strong problem-solving collaboration skills
- Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
- Commitment to best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
- Enthusiasm for testable code and Test-Driven Development
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Nice to Have
- Experience with Spring Boot
- Hands-on with BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) architecture
Why Join Wise?
For everyone, everywhere. At Wise, we believe money should have no borders— Ebenso should efforts to create an inclusive environment without limits.
A genuinely international team, our strength lies in diversity, equity and inclusion. We foster cultures where every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute to our mission, and able to progress in their vision.
Where to Learn More Visit Wise.Jobs to explore more about what it’s like to work at Wise.
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Compensation GBP £87,500 – £111,000 per year (competitive based on experience)
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