Backend Engineer

The team you’ll be working with: Swift

Our team looks after Wise’s connection to the Swift network; the backbone of the financial world. The team is in a special place, because it’s the bridge between the established and new financial systems - Swift and Wise.

We build and maintain the infrastructure that allows us to exchange messages (payment instructions, statements, RFIs) with other participants of the Swift network. We are the experts in correspondent banking and various Swift services, like SwiftRef and GPI, and we utilise these services in various ways to improve our product.

Next to the infrastructure, the team is responsible to move USD and EUR to foreign countries (to China for example), and looks after customers - mostly businesses - who send on these routes.

Our technology stack includes Java, Kotlin, Kafka messaging and relational databases, but also graphs and machine learning. The team is dynamically growing, and its role and responsibility is increasing every day.

Requirements

What does it take:

• A strong product mindset, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions
• Sense of ownership and great communication skills to drive projects across teams
• You have 4+ years of experience with Java and have Kotlin knowledge, experience with Spring framework and microservice best practices
• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• You enjoy writing testable code
• Experience working with relational databases and query optimisation
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Distributed and Concurrent Systems
• Hands on knowledge of system integration patterns
• It’s a plus if you have experience with Swift and related services, and with the ISO20022 standard

Additional information

What does success look like?

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
• You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
• You’ll identify technical challenges and opportunities and help us build a world class money transfer product
• You’ll write code and design systems to make Swift payment faster, cheaper, and more reliable for our customers

What you get back:

• The empowerment to solve problems your way
• The freedom to have real impact
• Loads of development opportunities
• Deep knowledge about the world’s financial system
• A fun work environment with social activities and events
• The opportunity to work with super smart people

Interested? Find out more:

• The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition.
• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
• Wise Engineering – Wise Engineering – Medium
• Our values

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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