Staff Software Engineer II Payment Processing Platform (Java)

Current traditional banking infrastructure is antiquated making it inherently slow complicated and expensive to send spend or receive money internationally. This inefficiency is often rooted in the reliance on costly legacy payments systems.

Our goal is to provide reliable and scalable services that can be used by all the other product teams in the company. We provide such systems for transfers and payouts domains.

We want our platform to be easy to use integrate and extend while also enforcing good practices risks mitigation and maintaining high performance.

What does success look like:

• Youll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute 

• Youll understand how our values can help you guide your work 

• Youll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them 

• Youll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product

• Understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives. Youll help us scale-up and build a world class money transfer product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

Qualifications :

What does it take: 

• A strong product mindset and passion for user experience you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points 

• Great communication skills to drive cross team projects

• The ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audience

• You enjoy writing testable easy to extend high-quality code

• You have solid Java 11 plus knowledge experience with Spring framework and microservice best practices

• Advocate for best coding practices code reviews and open feedback

• Experience Distributed and Concurrent Systems

• Hands on knowledge of microservice architecture patterns

• Experience working with relational databases messaging queues and designing schemas

Additional Information :

• The empowerment to solve problems your way and the freedom to have real impact on customers lives. 

• Loads of development opportunities in a growing team through launching new products / features consistently in an in-demand region.

• A fun work environment with social activities and events

• Travel opportunities to other Wise offices around the world

• The opportunity to work with super smart people

Interested Find out more:

• How we work - a practical guide

• Wise Vlogs: Omar Engineering Lead 

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• Our Engineering career map

• Engineering career journeys at Wise

• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

• Wise Engineering check out our Engineering blog.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time