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SalaryCurrent banking systems don't let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.
So, we're building a new one.
And, we need a Senior Backend Engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform that's scalable, reliable and secure. We're working on lots of exciting challenges, and you'll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.
Team you will be working with: Account Access and Recovery
Our Account Access & Recovery team owns and optimises the user registration journey as well as improving aspects of the login and logged-in experience. In addition, the team manages security features for our customers, making sure we protect them as they navigate Wise. In short, we work on features to make Wise more secure and easier to access. You'll be joining an amazing team solving some of Wise's most challenging and unique problems, whilst influencing the most important KPIs. Surrounded by iOS and Android developers, front-end engineers, and back-end engineers, you'll be able to leverage a wealth of knowledge across experienced individuals while having fun!
What does it take?
- A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritize work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
- Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Ability to work independently while also being a good team player. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.
- Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
- Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
- Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested
- Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
- Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus
- Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus
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
- You'll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
- You'll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities
Salary (annual)
80,000 - 115,000 GBP
We're people 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.
Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work. Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.
Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer's needs and life experiences and makes sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs .
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