Staff Software Engineer

Company Description

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.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

Wise is opening a new office in Hyderabad that will be in the heart of product development of the company. We're looking for a Tenured Full Stack Engineer to join our very first product team in Hyderabad which will be part of Asia & Pacific regional expansion.

APAC customers are a strong contributor to the Wise's growth. India plays a crucial part of it. A big part of this growth comes from new customer acquisitions, so having a fast, convenient and delightful customer onboarding journey and money movement are central to this growth. That's the mission of the India Product team, and we're looking for people who can make this happen. If this sounds like an exciting challenge, we'd love to hear from you

Here's how you'll be contributing to the team:

• Develop Wise's products that will be used by Wise's Customers to service the Indian market. Disrupt the cross-border industry in India that is hugely dominated by Banks.
• Design onboarding and money movement solutions tailored to India markets by leveraging local KYC stack and payment ecosystem in India.
• Develop robust systems to seamlessly onboard customers without delays, while being compliant to local regulations.
• Consistently work towards technical excellence of the team.
• Lead large scale projects that require heavy collaboration with teams across Wise, globally, that have impact beyond the team.
• Develop scalable money movement systems that bring speed and convenience of domestic payment processing to cross border payments.
• Build and maintain automations and tooling to process customer payments and data in a scalable and cost-efficient way.
• Utilise the observability stack and analytics to identify gaps, and unlock new opportunities for growth and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders throughout Wise, plan and contribute to the product and technical roadmaps of your team

Qualifications

A bit about you:

• You have solid Java 17 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework
• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design
• You approach challenges with a strong product mindset, prioritise customer needs and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• You have experience mentoring junior engineers and setting them up for success.
• You have led the design and development of complex engineering solutions and understand their broader impact on business outcomes.
• You have excellent communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
• You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers
• You have front end experience with one of JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, or other
• You are familiar with Continuous Integration and deployment frameworks

…but don't worry we don't expect you to know everything

Additional Information

Some extra skills and experiences that would be great:

• You have experience with financial systems including how payments and digital onboarding flows work.
• You have experience in technical leadership - maintain technical excellence of your team, managing performance, giving feedback, and coaching engineers to thrive.

What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise:

We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by the impact you create and the complexity of problems you can help solve. As a Senior software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the licence to:

• Lead large (12+ engineering weeks) sized projects, from scoping till Business As Usual, that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers.
• Own the technical domain of your team with a view on how it should move forward.
• Contribute to improving and growing your team's product.
• Embrace long-term ownership of projects while mentoring other engineers to reduce single points of failure.
• Architect and design services that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling.
• Collaborate closely across functions like product, analytics, compliance, design, and operations to ensure smooth and effective delivery.

To get the best view of what we expect at all levels of our engineering team, you can take a look at our Engineering Career Map

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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