Senior Software Developer - Contacts Team
Builds and scales the backend platform for Wise’s recipient management system, handling millions of bank accounts and powering search/integration features. Focuses on distributed systems, APIs, and database optimization while collaborating with product and design teams.
- Compensation
- £87.5K–£111K / yr
- Location
- London, gb
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems
- 5+ years of Java knowledge
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and schema design
- Strong product mindset and passion for customer experience
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
- Belief in and practice of best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
- Experience writing testable code and Test-Driven Development
Nice to have
- Experience with Spring Boot
- Experience with Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs)
Full description
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.
How we work
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.
What will you be working on?
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.
What do you need?
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 5+ 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
Nice to have:
- You have experience with Spring boot
- You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)
Interested? Find out more:
- How we work - a practical guide
- DEI @ Wise
- Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
- See what it’s like to work at Wise London
- Our engineering career mapWise Engineering –What do we offer: