Senior Software Engineer II Backend (Java) Recommend

About the role:

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Recommend team in the London office.
The Recommend team builds and owns the recommendation experience that allows customers to recommend Wise to their friends family or connections and brings new customers to Wise through the recommendations. From building referral platforms to creating smooth onboarding experience for referred customers and building reward mechanisms we own the whole journey until the first international money needs are met. Our team is dedicated to building the best recommendation journey and diverse reward mechanisms to solve customers first international money needs in a way thats clear easy and delightful. Our team is diverse and is made of software engineers data analysts and designers and more who collaborate on a daily basis to continuously improve customer experience with recommendation journeys at Wise.

What will you be working on

We are looking for a Senior Backed Engineer to help us evolve and scale our recommendation platform and reward mechanisms for our customers all over the world. You will get the opportunity to build the systems APIs and product experiences that help us shape the first experience of many of our soon-to-be-new customers.

Qualifications :

What do you need:

• 5 years of experience in Java or Kotlin (or other JVM based language)
• Strong experience with Spring framework relational databases distributed and concurrent systems (Kafka)
• Close collaboration with product managers data scientists data analysts engineers and other product teams is a must have and is something to expect to happen on a daily basis
• You enjoy writing testable code and you have experience in testing strategies such as unit testing integration testing
• You believe in and follow best coding practices code reviews and open feedback
• You have great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audience
• You strive to improve our team culture and processes
• 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
• Being able to work independently on customer problems is a key to success - you take responsibility and end-to-end ownership of your projects: drive and own them to make sure we hit the goals we want to achieve

Additional Information :

Interested Find out more:

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• Wise Engineering do we offer: 

  • Starting salary: 105K GBP - 130K GBP RSUs

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  Remote Work :

  No

  
  

  Employment Type :

  Full-time