• Join the Grow squad as a Senior Software Engineer II, helping the Wise Account become the world's primary financial hub — customers already earn over £50 million every month on their balances.
• Work across two distinct phases: scaling a global success (Assets) or building a new frontier from scratch (Investments).
• Handle high-concurrency systems where data integrity and consistency are absolute, whether architecting a high-availability Yield Engine managing billions in assets or defining the technical foundations for a brand-new brokerage.
• Work hybrid from Wise's London office.
📋 Job Requirements
• Have a strong product mindset and passion for user experience, prioritising work with customers in mind and making data-driven decisions.
• Communicate effectively and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value.
• Coordinate complex projects across different teams.
• Have experience developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment.
• Have experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean, performant, and well-tested code.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Have knowledge of Java and Spring Boot.
• Bring experience with a messaging system such as Kafka.
• Have experience with financial products such as asset management, yield engines, or brokerage infrastructure.
• Bring experience building high-availability systems managing custody, liquidity, or large-scale financial assets.
• Have experience with zero-to-one product engineering, defining technical foundations from the ground up.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Architect a high-availability Yield Engine that manages billions in assets while maintaining bankruptcy-protected custody and seamless, near-instant liquidity (Assets team).
• Scale a product already live in the UK, EU, Singapore, and Australia.
• Define the technical foundations, brokerage infrastructure, and trading interfaces from the ground up for individual stock investing and tax-beneficial money pots like ISAs and SIPPs (Investments team).
• Work alongside PMs, Designers, and Analysts to decide what to build, not just how.
• Handle high-concurrency systems where data integrity and consistency are absolute.
• Shape the strategy and code for a brand-new pillar of the Wise ecosystem.
We have been Wise customers for years and have always had a great experience. We love their transparent approach in everything they do, from showing the correct exchange rates to disclosing all their fees, and even being honest about how they work. Founded in 2010 in London, Wise is now a publicly traded company operating in over 160 countries, generating 1.2+ billion pounds in revenue (2025) and is highly profitable. What we especially love at Wise is their work from anywhere policy after 6 months: Basically you can remotely work from (almost) anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. As they are solving a massive problem and are strongly mission-driven, we are sure that any individual passionate about working on complex, impactful problems in sending money globally efficiently, while continuing to work on the much-loved Wise solutions, will love working there.
😃 What Wise offers
• Earn £111,000–£145,000 plus RSUs.
• Build products you can be proud of — Wise charges a fair fee and passes the rest to the customer with full transparency.
• Have the freedom to choose the right tools for the job and the responsibility to fix what you break.
• Join a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money.
💖 What makes Wise unique
Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. The Grow squad's goal is for the Wise Account to become the world's primary financial hub, with customers already earning over £50 million every month on their balances through a current account experience backed by real assets.
💬 What employees say
"Wise is a great Company, with a great culture and great transparency. It lives up to the mission of fast, cheap, high-quality currency transfers; I personally like the good vibes here with a lot of passion."
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