Position: Backend Engineer at Wise (ex TransferWise)
Company: Wise
Category: Java
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 10 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.

Current banking systems don't let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. 

**So, we’re building a new one.**

And, we need a Backend Engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. We’re working on lots of exciting challenges, and you’ll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.

Tribe you’ll be working in: **Receive & Business Onboarding**: 
In the Receive & Business Onboarding tribe, we are working on making it easy, fast and cheap for people and businesses to receive money internationally. We own a wide range of components from the payin platform that powers all the money movement into Wise’s engine, to local account details that enable customers to receive like a local. As a fast growing area, we’re working on adding new products and making our receive ecosystem even more robust in the future.

**What does it take?**
A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritize work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Ability to work independently while also being a good team player. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.
Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested 
Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus
Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus
…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

**What does success look like?**
You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them
You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

**What you get back:**
🚀 Stock options in a growing company 
💪 An annual self-development budget
🍎 Daily free breakfast, weekly lunch and lots of snacks 
🐶 Pet friendly offices 
 🏃‍♀️Lots of fun group activities like yoga, running and boardgame nights 
🌍 Relocation and visa expenses covered 
🎉 An annual, all-expenses-paid company trip, Summer Days 
🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years 
Find out more about our benefits in our **London** office.https://www.wise.jobs/2020/07/07/benefits-in-our-london-office/

Interested? Find out more:
 How we work – a practical guide https://www.wise.jobs/2019/12/05/how-we-work-a-practical-guide/


We’re people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Also, qualifications aren’t that important to us. If you’ve got great experience, and you’re great at articulating your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.

And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic.