At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build intuitive APIs for seamless onboarding and identity verification.
- Company: Join Wise Platform, a leader in next-generation payment solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, RSUs, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Collaborative team culture with opportunities for mentorship and growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of KYC experience while working with top-tier partners.
- Qualifications: Strong Java skills, microservices experience, and a passion for user-centric design.
The predicted salary is between 87500 - 111000 £ per year.
Job Description
We at Wise Platform aim to be the infrastructure that powers the world’s money by connecting banks, financial institutions, and enterprises to our next‑generation payment solutions.
You’ll own and shape critical API infrastructure that serves partners such as Google, Deel, Ramp, and Agoda.
Within Wise Platform, the KYC Experience team owns the end‑to‑end onboarding and identity verification capabilities that enable partner integrations.
We build APIs and services that let our partners onboard their customers compliantly and seamlessly, setting the standard for world‑class embedded KYC.
We’re looking for a product‑focused Senior Software Engineer to join our London team, building seamless KYC and Onboarding products for our partners.
You’ll work autonomously in a cross‑functional team alongside engineers, product, analytics, compliance, and operations staff, shaping the direction of the Wise Platform KYC experience.
What will you be working on?
- Design and build public‑facing APIs for Wise Platform and our partners that are intuitive, consistent, and easy to use.
- Own technical roadmaps for your areas of ownership, ensuring they address technical debt, reliability, scalability, and security concerns.
- Architect highly robust and scalable microservices using event‑driven design patterns.
- Participate in product roadmapping and strategy sessions with product management and the rest of the team.
- Take initiative to solve impactful problems both within your team and beyond, contributing to cross‑team initiatives that unlock new capabilities and value for our partners.
- Mentor and influence teammates through code reviews and best practices, raising the bar for technical excellence.
Qualifications
- Strong foundation in modern Java (or other JVM‑based language), experience with the Spring framework, and a commitment to clean, testable, highly performant code.
- Deep experience building and operating microservices, with solid understanding of event‑driven architecture, distributed systems, and concurrency patterns.
- Hands‑on experience with Kafka (or similar messaging systems), including designing robust, scalable event pipelines.
- Proficiency with relational and non‑relational databases, including query optimisation, schema design, and data‑lifecycle management for sensitive information.
- Product‑oriented thinking with a strong product mindset and passion for user experience, prioritising work with customers in mind and making data‑driven decisions to fix partner problems.
- Experience with common design and architectural patterns, coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
- What Do We Offer
- Starting salary: £87,500 – £111,000 + RSUs
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