Senior Software Engineer I - Pricing Core

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

About the role

• We are looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer to join the Pricing Core team.
• The Pricing Core team focuses on building and maintaining the main pricing platform that enables teams at Wise to price their products in a reliable, scalable and extensible way.
• Our services sit in most of the products' critical paths, processing 100+ million requests every day and operating within strict SLAs.
• You'll have the chance to work on and shape the future of complex systems, dealing with high-throughput services, designing and building scalable, efficient and performant solutions.
• The team sits within the Pricing Squad and you'll work closely with teams within and outside the squad.

Main Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services written in Java using the Spring Boot framework, deployed on cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Build and maintain event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka for asynchronous processing of financial events across distributed services
• Contribute and drive architectural decisions, ensuring we maintain a high bar on quality, reliability and observability of our services
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and technical debt in existing systems
• Participate in on-call rotations to monitor and respond to production incidents for Tier 1 critical services
• Conduct code reviews for team members, ensuring code quality, security, and adherence to engineering standards

What we're looking for

Technical Excellence

• Strong background in software engineering, with a track record of contributing significantly to large, impactful projects in a complex production domain.
• Experience with Java or similar OOP language.
• Expert in your technical discipline, with the ability to design for long-term iteration and scale.
• You own the availability, reliability and security of the systems you build following engineering best practices.
• You make sensible trade-offs between speed, scalability and risk, and optimise for a predictable, regular cadence of delivery.

Product mindset and autonomy

• Ability to work on ambiguous and complex problems
• Own the technical roadmap and deliverables of your project end-to-end, embracing long-term ownership
• Use data to define, prioritise and measure the success of the initiatives

Collaboration, Communication and Growth

• Great communication skills and the ability to tailor communication style depending on the audience
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to shape

requirements

and priorities

• Ability to mentor and coach other engineers
• Actively share knowledge both within the team and squad
• Regularly seek and provide feedback

Nice to have

• Experience in pricing systems and/or payments, finance domains
• Experience working with distributed SQL engines (e.g. Trino)
• Ability to build software solutions, APIs, or platform tooling on top of big data pipelines and analytical engines
• Familiarity with configuration-heavy domain where business logic is shared between data and code

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it's like to work at Wise London!
• Our Engineering career map
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting

• Wise Benefits

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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 .
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram .