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WiseSenior Software Developer - Wise Platform
Wise seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Partner Experience team located in London. Wise Platform enables major enterprises, software companies, and financial institutions to…
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Wise seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Partner Experience team located in London. Wise Platform enables major enterprises, software companies, and financial institutions to integrate international transfer capabilities through an API. In this on-site position within the Partner Experience unit, the selected candidate will help design and build tools that empower enterprise partners to manage operations, navigate compliance requests, report fraud, and accelerate their launch timelines. The role…
Job Description
Wise seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Partner Experience team located in London. Wise Platform enables major enterprises, software companies, and financial institutions to integrate international transfer capabilities through an API. In this on-site position within the Partner Experience unit, the selected candidate will help design and build tools that empower enterprise partners to manage operations, navigate compliance requests, report fraud, and accelerate their launch timelines. The role focuses primarily on developing greenfield systems, managing technical discovery, and collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and adjacent teams such as KYC, FinCrime, and API Experience.
Daily work involves creating backend microservices, establishing role-based access control frameworks, handling SAML 2.0 single sign-on integrations, and designing partner-facing APIs. The team operates with minimal process, including quick standups, targeted one-on-ones, and quarterly planning, while encouraging engineers to take full ownership of features from technical discovery through production support.
Responsibilities
- Develop backend microservices for partner-facing functionalities like audit logging, case management, RFI handling, transaction visibility, and fraud reporting
- Build and maintain the role-based access control and permissions system governing portal activities
- Implement SAML 2.0 single sign-on integrations for enterprise partners, including identity mapping
- Extend communication layer services between Wise and partners to support new case types and workflows
- Design partner-facing API endpoints focusing on consistency and documentation
- Collaborate with Compliance, FinCrime, and KYC teams to integrate sanctions RFI workflows and fraud reporting
- Conduct technical discovery by mapping existing systems and producing design documents
- Provide production support and resolve live partner issues
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and deploying backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and microservices patterns
- Commercial experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs alongside OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2, and versioning strategies
- Ability to manage relational databases including PostgreSQL and MySQL for query performance, indexing, and data modeling
- Capability to map complex technical landscapes and write clear documentation
- Self-management skills to deliver reliably without constant supervision
- Ability to collaborate with adjacent teams and understand enterprise needs around reliability, security, auditability, and compliance
Qualifications
- Experience building B2B SaaS products, enterprise portals, or partner platforms
- Understanding of payment systems and cross-border money movement complexities
- Experience with identity and access management technologies including OAuth2, SAML, SPIFFE, and SSO
- Familiarity with event streaming platforms such as Kafka
- Background working in a platform team serving internal or external consumers
- Ability to explain complex technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders
- Interest in foreign exchange, international finance, or payments infrastructure
Core Skills
Benefits
- Starting salary between GBP 87,500 and 111,000 per year
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
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What is the location and work setting for this role?
This is an on-site position based in London.
What is the salary range for the Senior Software Developer position?
The starting salary ranges from GBP 87,500 to 111,000 per year, and the compensation package also includes RSUs.
What core technologies are required for the backend work?
Candidates must have experience designing, building, and deploying backend microservices in Java and Spring Boot, alongside relational database management.
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