Senior Software Engineer I - Pricing Core

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong background in software engineering with a track record of contributing significantly to large, impactful projects in a complex production domain.
• Experience with Java or a similar object-oriented programming language.
• Ability to design for long-term iteration and scale.
• Ownership of availability, reliability, and security of the systems we build, following engineering best practices.
• Ability to make sensible trade-offs between speed, scalability, and risk, and to optimise for a predictable, regular cadence of delivery.
• Ability to work on ambiguous and complex problems.
• Ability to own the technical roadmap and deliverables of a project end-to-end, with long-term ownership.
• Ability to use data to define, prioritise, and measure the success of initiatives.
• Great communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication style to different audiences.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to shape requirements and priorities.
• Ability to mentor and coach other engineers.
• Ability to actively share knowledge within the team and squad.
• Ability to regularly seek and provide feedback.
• Nice to have: experience in pricing systems and/or payments, finance domains.
• Nice to have: experience working with distributed SQL engines, such as Trino.
• Nice to have: ability to build software solutions, APIs, or platform tooling on top of big data pipelines and analytical engines.
• Nice to have: familiarity with configuration-heavy domains where business logic is shared between data and code.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services written in Java using the Spring Boot framework, deployed on cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Build and maintain event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka for asynchronous processing of financial events across distributed services.
• Contribute to and drive architectural decisions, ensuring we maintain a high bar on quality, reliability, and observability.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and technical debt in existing systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations to monitor and respond to production incidents for Tier 1 critical services.
• Conduct code reviews for team members, ensuring code quality, security, and adherence to engineering standards.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Big Data
• Backend
• Cloud
• Java
• Kafka
• SQL
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Network
• OOP

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Wise is a global technology company on a mission to make international money movement easier and cheaper for everyone, everywhere. We are building the best way to move and manage the worlds money, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance in a high-throughput pricing platform that sits on critical paths across our products. Youll join the Pricing Core team within the Pricing Squad and work closely with teams inside and outside the squad. We offer a starting salary of 87.5k–111k plus RSUs, alongside Wise benefits. This is a full-time, mid-senior engineering role based in London with a hybrid working setup. We are proud of our diverse, equitable, and inclusive international team.

last updated 34 week of 2026