Wise

Backend Engineer - Send Core

In short

Backend Engineer role at Wise's Send Core team, owning the critical infrastructure that every money-sending transaction flows through and building customer-facing products for the send journey. The company is a global fintech focused on moving and managing money across borders. The role requires strong computer science fundamentals, a product mindset, and willingness to learn rather than deep prior experience in the specific stack. It's a hybrid position based in London, UK, with no relocation or visa sponsorship offered.

About
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. 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.
Role
We're unable to support relocation or visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates will need to already be based in the UK (or able to work from the UK).
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Send Core team. We provide the critical infrastructure that every sending transaction flows through - from £10 sent to a friend to a multi-million dollar business payment. We are on a mission to make sending money as easy and fast as paying for groceries with your card. Apart from keeping our core infrastructure in good shape, we are building customer-facing products that power the customer's send journey.
Requirements
We understand that you may not have much experience in our stack, or you haven't worked with the frontend for a while - and that's fine! As long as you are willing to learn and have strong fundamentals - we want to hear from you.
Technical excellence
•Strong computer science fundamentals
•Strong knowledge of the modern tech stack and design concepts
•Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and simply
Product mindset
•Focus on solving real customer problems with every change you make
•Clear understanding of why we are building what we are building
•Ability to think in product terms - not just on the code level
Personal qualities
•Passion to always learn and grow
•Getting things done yourself, instead of waiting to be told what to do
•Curiosity to explore ways to improve our products and your day-to-day work
What you'll be working on
Wise believes that an engineer is more than just a coder. Our engineers are focused on improving our customers' experience - and they see the impact of their work on millions of people every day. Wise is all about collaboration. You will be surrounded by passionate people and work together with them to progress our mission.
•Shape our Products: Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver the best experience for our customers
•Control Critical Infrastructure: Own the systems that every sending transaction depends on across the entire platform
•Drive Technical Excellence: Make architectural decisions for the core send components, making them reliable and performant
Compensation
Starting salary: £68,000 - £87,500, plus Wise Benefits.

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