Senior Software Developer II - Wise for Banks

What you'll be doing

  • Own solutions from problem to production by collaborating with product managers and engineers to understand needs, design, build, test, and operate backend services.
  • Make thoughtful technical decisions by explaining tradeoffs and balancing delivery time, reliability, and maintainability even with incomplete information.
  • Build across system boundaries by working with other teams to agree on interfaces and understand impacts on the wider payment journey.
  • Improve the systems you operate by strengthening testing and observability, diagnosing production issues, and making services more dependable.
  • Help the team succeed by contributing across workstreams, sharing domain knowledge, and mentoring other engineers through reviews and pairing.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building or significantly contributing to large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong backend engineering skills, including relational databases, event-driven systems, and proficiency in an object-oriented programming language.
  • A product mindset to explain customer problems, the importance of solutions, and how to assess their effectiveness.
  • Ability to take ownership with high autonomy, navigate ambiguity, and involve others when needed.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills to explain technical decisions, work across teams, and support colleagues' success.
  • Curiosity about the business domain and a willingness to learn how partners use built products.

Nice to haves

  • Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, or PostgreSQL.
  • Background in payments, financial technology, funding, settlement, or foreign exchange.
  • Using product metrics and data to understand customer behavior and guide decisions.
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