Senior Android Software Engineer - Grow in London

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. 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.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. Wise Assets is one of the fastest-growing features today, with Stocks and Interest live in the UK, EU, Singapore, Australia, Brazil and expanding further. Our customers now already earn £50m a month from their money held across the currencies on Wise.

Holding money with a bank is non-transparent and unfair. It is non-transparent because you don’t know what the bank is doing with your money, who they are lending it to, and how much they are making from it. It is unfair because they provide you with free services, which you don’t know how much they cost to provide, and give you almost zero return for holding your money with them. Unfortunately, as interest rates have increased around the world, this problem is getting worse as banks pocket a greater share of this income.

The Wise Account is our antidote to holding money in a bank. With our Assets product, we enable our customers to decide how they want to hold their money. They can choose what it is invested in and what return it makes. We then charge a fair and transparent fee before returning the rest to them. It’s simple; it is our customers' money, so they should benefit from the return it generates.

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• Proven experience in building and deploying an application that delights customers
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin
• Familiarity with modern app architectures like Unidirectional Data Flow, Dependency Injection, Structured Concurrency with Kotlin Coroutines, amongst others
• Desire to write testable code
• Understanding of REST API design
• Strong product mindset and passion for user experience, with a focus on prioritising work that addresses user needs and making data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a team, as well as independently and proactively solve problems.

Nice to Have:

• Any experience with declarative UI (Compose), Gradle, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) would be great!

What the first six months in this role will look like:

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team, squad and guild vision and how you can contribute
• Understanding the Wise product, fintech space and our tech culture
• You’ll have fully developed new features, from planning to release, and keep monitoring their adoption once live
• Gone through two quarterly plannings and proposed ideas to take your product further
• You’ve contributed to hiring interviews

What you get back:

• RSU's in a growing company
• An annual self-development budget
• Statutory maternity leave, with a perk of 18 fully paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption
• Paternity leave for 18 weeks at full pay
• 3 fully paid ‘me days’ per year to help you manage life
• Relocation and visa expenses covered
• A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.