Senior Software Engineer I – Pricing Core

Overview

As a Backend Software Engineer in the Pricing Core team, you will shape the main pricing platform that powers Wise’s products. You’ll design and build scalable, high-throughput services in Java with Spring Boot on AWS, enabling reliable pricing across distributed systems. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to improve performance, reliability, and observability while handling production incidents in a Tier 1 environment. This role offers meaningful impact on pricing at scale and a chance to influence architectural decisions in a fast-paced fintech setting.

Pay / Benefits

• RSUs
• Hybrid work
• Wise Benefits
• Competitive salary
• Long-term ownership
• Growth opportunities

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services in Java with Spring Boot on AWS
• Build and maintain event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka for asynchronous processing
• Drive architectural decisions to ensure quality, reliability, and observability
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and technical debt
• Participate in on-call rotations to monitor production incidents for Tier 1 services
• Conduct code reviews to ensure security and engineering standards

Key requirements

• Strong software engineering background with impact on large projects
• Experience with Java (or similar OOP language)
• Ability to design for long-term iteration and scale
• Ownership of availability, reliability, and security of systems
• Ability to balance speed, scalability, and risk with regular delivery cadence
• Product mindset and autonomy to own technical roadmap and deliverables
• Strong collaboration and communication, with cross-functional team work
• Willingness to mentor and share knowledge within the team

• Excellent communication adaptable to audiences
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Mentoring and coaching
• Java
• Spring Boot
• AWS

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