Senior Java Software Engineer- Continuous Delivery (CD)

Requirements

• Strong experience building and operating production systems in Java.
• Experience designing distributed services and APIs, including testing, monitoring, and failure handling.
• Practical experience with a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience working with containers and an orchestration platform such as Kubernetes.
• A track record of automating operational work and building repeatable tooling.
• Experience owning shared or mission-critical infrastructure.
• The ability to turn complex requirements into understandable, maintainable solutions.
• A willingness to challenge existing approaches, share what you know, and learn from others.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Spinnaker or another large-scale CI/CD platform.
• Practical experience applying SRE principles, such as service-level objectives, error budgets, and automated incident prevention.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, or distributed tracing.
• Knowledge of cloud networking and security.
• Experience working in a regulated environment or with standards such as PCI DSS.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance testing, or load testing.
• Experience producing clear technical documentation and architecture diagrams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, and operate capabilities within Wise’s Continuous Delivery platform.
• Evolve our use of the Open Source CD tool Spinnaker and contribute improvements upstream where appropriate.
• Build reliable guardrails that help engineers deploy changes safely with minimal manual effort.
• Improve the shared foundations of the platform in partnership with other Platform Engineering teams.
• Use telemetry and feedback to understand how the platform performs and where engineers experience friction.
• Work directly with engineering teams as they adopt new deployment patterns and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to technical design, code reviews, documentation, and the development of other engineers.

Perks and Benefits

• Meaningful influence over a platform used by engineers across Wise.
• The opportunity to solve engineering problems at company-wide scale.
• Scope to contribute to open source software.
• Support to develop your technical leadership and help other teams improve how they deliver software.
• A flexible working environment and regular team and company events.