Senior Software Engineer I - Database Platform - Python

Current banking systems dont let us send spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. 

So were building a new one.

We need a Senior Software Engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform thats scalable reliable and secure. Youll dive right into projects helping to develop our internal database platform automation and tooling used to provision and manage hundreds of databases deployed across multiple environments.

About the role 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a background in Python development to join our Database Platform team.

Database Platform provides databases as service for the rest of the business managing our vast estate of database technologies and solutions.  As a Software Engineer in the wider Platform tribe and Engineering organisation you will have an opportunity to directly affect our database platform and automation strategy scalability and reliability building production systems that are ultimately making things better for all customers.

How we work

We operate on a strong belief in automation programmatic implementation and reusable design. Were looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the Platform tribe.

As we scale our database platform we need to sustain this growth by continuously iterating on the services we run with a focus on availability security and ease of use. Were looking for an engineer with relevant experience who can analyse complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence.

As an international Financial Services company we also have the responsibility to keep our customers money and data safe. The Database Platform team plays a critical role in this by helping our Platform and Product Engineers work with Databases safely and ensure that best practices are always applied. To do this we work closely with the other teams building out the Data Platform and with the wider Platform organisation to build out the required guardrails.

What will you be working on

• You will join our Database Platform team and contribute to delivering our cloudbased database platform used internally by our development teams to provision and manage their database deployments.

• Youll develop selfservice tooling to enhance the developer experience build guardrails to abstract the complexity of operating database services as well as automate routine tasks.

• Youre production environment oriented and wont settle at all for downtime and outages.

• You have the ability to work independently and plan your own solutions to problems.

What do you need

• Strong development skills in Python (or other programming language). 

• A solid understanding of core software engineering principles with the capability to write review and refactor code ensuring its secure and meets standards for quality testing and documentation.

• Proven experience in designing and developing resilient web APIs using frameworks such as Flask Django or Fast API.

• Proficiency in operating within a Cloudbased environment and working with Cloud APIs (preferably AWS).

• Working knowledge of configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g. Terraform Ansible SaltStack etc).

• Familiarity with database technologies at scale (e.g MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB etc) would be a distinct advantage.

• Familiarity with workflow engines (e.g. Temporal Cadence) would be a distinct advantage.

• Front end development experience is not essential but would be considered a major plus.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively convey new processes and workflows and collaborate with diverse teams across the organisation.

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 do we offer: 

  • Starting salary:GBP

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  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.

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  Remote Work :

  No

  
  

  Employment Type :

  Fulltime