Senior Software Engineer II – Data Onboarding & Reporting

Overview

In this role you will architect, scale, and optimize data pipelines on a Lakehouse stack to support financial reporting and assurance for Wise. You’ll work within the Data Onboarding team to transform raw event data into audit-ready, subledger-and-milver level data, collaborating with finance and product stakeholders. You’ll tackle high-throughput processing, data quality, and infrastructure efficiency to enable fast, reliable financial truth across the organization. This is a chance to shape data infrastructure that underpins Wise’s mission of money without borders. You will lead by example, mentor peers, and drive engineering excellence in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Starting salary 111k – 145k
• RSUs
• Wise Benefits
• Hybrid work model
• opportunity to influence core governance of data

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize end-to-end data pipelines on the Trino + Iceberg Lakehouse stack
• Own extraction, cleaning, and modeling to progressively refine raw logs (Bronze) into verified subledgers (Silver) and Gold metrics
• Maintain data freshness with Kafka-based streaming and real-time computation models
• Embed automated reconciliation checks (e.g., balance, double-entry validations) to ensure data quality before reporting
• Collaborate with finance controllers, analysts, product, and engineering to translate finance needs into production data schemas
• Address data scaling constraints and optimize compute costs in line with Wise’s financial targets
• Mentor and review code/technical design for mid-level and junior engineers

Key requirements

• Data Lakehouse mastery with Trino/Presto and Iceberg or Delta Lake
• Advanced data modeling skills including Medallion Architecture, Star Schemas, and semi-structured data (JSON/Avro)
• Strong ETL/ELT tooling experience with dbt and orchestration (Airflow)
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or Java/Scala
• Experience with event-driven architectures and Apache Kafka

• Strong ownership mindset
• Excellent communication bridging engineering and finance needs
• Collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Trino/Presto
• Apache Iceberg/Delta Lake
• dbt

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