Senior Software Engineer - London

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience in building complex, high-reliability systems
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and simply
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Focus on solving real customer problems with every change you make
• Clear understanding of why we are building what we are building
• Ability to think in product terms, not just at the code level
• Passion to always learn and grow
• Ability to get things done yourself instead of waiting to be told what to do
• Willingness to learn our stack, even if you have not worked with it before or have not worked with frontend recently

Responsibilities:

• Join our Send Core team and help build the critical infrastructure behind every sending transaction
• Help make sending money as easy and fast as paying for groceries with your card
• Maintain and improve our core infrastructure
• Build customer-facing products that power the send journey
• Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver the best experience for our customers
• Own the systems that every sending transaction depends on across the entire platform
• Make architectural decisions for the core send components to keep them reliable and performant
• Work primarily on backend development and also contribute to frontend work
• Explore ways to improve our products and our day-to-day work

Technologies:

• Backend
• Frontend
• Network
• JavaScript

More:

We are Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make moving and managing money easier and cheaper for people and businesses everywhere. We are building an entirely new network for the worlds money, with a focus on making international payments fast and simple. You will join a collaborative, international engineering team in London working on mission-critical systems and customer-facing products. The role is full-time, mid-senior level, with a starting salary of 111k - 145k plus RSUs, and includes Wise benefits. We value diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams and aim to create an environment where everyone feels respected, empowered, and able to progress in their careers.

last updated 36 week of 2026