Wise

Software Engineer II - Contacts Team - Java

In short

Backend engineer role on Wise's Contacts team, owning the end-to-end experience of adding, finding and managing recipients — from a scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts to search algorithms, local integrations, and customer-facing screens. The team spans Tallinn and London offices, working in an agile setup with designers, a product manager and an analyst. Requires strong Java 8+ experience, work with large-scale distributed systems, relational/non-relational databases, RESTful API design, Spring Boot, Test Driven Development, and experience with Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs).

About Wise
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.
The Role
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.
What you will be working on
We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with designers, the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Tallinn and London offices. You will be part of 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 are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!
•You get things done
•You have experience working with large scale distributed systems
•You have years of Java 8+ knowledge
•You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
•You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
•You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
•You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
•You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
•You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
•You have experience with Spring boot
•You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)
Compensation
Starting salary: £111,000 - £145,000 + RSU ($75,000 New + $37,500 Annual Refresher)
Additional Information
Interested? Find out more: How we work – a practical guide, Wise Tech Stack (2025 update), Our Engineering career map, Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work, Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

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