Senior Software Engineer II - Contacts Team - Java

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for someone who gets things done.
• You have experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
• You have years of Java 8+ knowledge.
• You have experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, and designing schemas.
• You have a strong product mindset and a passion for customer experience, prioritising work with customers in mind and making data-driven decisions to fix customer pain points.
• You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve problems.
• You have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs.
• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback.
• You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development.
• Nice to have: experience with Spring Boot.
• Nice to have: experience working with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends).

Responsibilities:

• You will be part of an autonomous team driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient user experience.
• You will help us scale up and build a world-class recipient management product.

Technologies:

• Backend
• Java
• LESS
• Product Manager
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• TDD
• Support
• Network

More:

We are Wise, a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the worlds money. We help people and businesses send money abroad, spend internationally, and make and receive international payments with less friction and lower cost. Our Contacts team is a core part of Wise, owning the end-to-end experience for adding, finding, and managing recipients, from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts to search algorithms, local integrations like Pix, and customer-facing screens. We work in an agile way with engineers collaborating closely with designers, the product manager, and the analyst across our Tallinn and London offices. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we are proud of our international team and mission-driven culture.

last updated 36 week of 2026