Wise

Senior Backend Software Engineer I - Personal & Business Pricing Team

London, United Kingdom · Hybrid · Full-time

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EmployerWise
LocationLondon, EC2A 4JE, United Kingdom
Work styleHybrid
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted24 days ago

We are looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer to join the Personal & Business Pricing Team.

Pricing is core to Wise's mission of transparency. This role offers an opportunity to have a direct and measurable impact on a domain that is central to Wise's growth. Personal & Business Pricing sits at the intersection of nearly every product launch and promotion at Wise. We build the infrastructure and tooling for pricing across Wise products. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment and gain exposure to a wide range of domains while helping to shape the team's technical direction. You'll partner closely with global and regional product teams to enable new product features and experiments while ensuring our pricing infrastructure remains scalable, reliable and accurate.

What will you be working on?

Design and build features end-to-end across our pricing services.

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Contribute to architectural decisions and code reviews, raising the bar on quality, reliability and observability.

Drive initiatives to improve the reliability and scalability of our services, improving the reliability and flexibility of our pricing products.

What we're looking for?

Technical Excellence

Strong background in software engineering, with a track record of contributing significantly to large, impactful projects in a complex production domain.

Experience with Java or similar OOP language.

Expert in your technical discipline, with the ability to design for long-term iteration and scale.

You own the availability, reliability and security of the systems you build following engineering best practises.

You make sensible trade-offs between speed, scalability and risk, and optimise for a predictable, regular cadence of delivery.

Ownership & Product Mindset

You own the technical roadmap and deliverables of your projects end-to-end, embracing long-term ownership .

You can always explain why something is being built, what customer problem it's solving, and what impact is expected.

You take a leading role in incident resolution and post-incident review for both minor and major incidents.

Experience engaging with product, compliance and stakeholder teams to shape requirements and priorities.

Collaboration, Communication & Growth

Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.

You give and receive feedback well, and contribute to a supportive environment that helps the team grow.

You mentor and coach other engineers, and own the onboarding of new joiners into the team.

You promote a culture of collaboration that minimises duplicate or wasted work, and pull other teams in the right direction.

Nice to haves:

Experience in payments, fintech, or another related domain.

Prior experience working on a team with a global, distributed setup.

Experience with systems that involve compliance, audit, or regulatory requirements (SOX, fee disclosure, tax).

Familiarity with configuration-heavy domains where business logic is encoded in data as well as code.

Interested? Find out more:

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What do we offer:

Starting salary: £87,500 - £111,000 + RSUs

Wise Benefits

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.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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.

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

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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