Senior Software Engineer I – Contacts Team

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• We get things done
• We have experience working with large-scale distributed systems
• We have Java knowledge
• We have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, and schema design
• We have a strong product mindset and a passion for customer experience; we prioritise work with customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain points
• We enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve problems
• We have experience designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
• We believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
• We enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
• Nice to have: We have experience with Spring Boot
• Nice to have: We have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

Responsibilities:

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

Technologies:

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

More:

Wise is a global technology company on a mission to make money movement easier, faster, and cheaper for people and businesses around the world. The Contacts team is a core part of Wise, owning the end-to-end experience for adding, finding, and managing recipients, from the backend platform and search capabilities to the customer-facing product screens. We work in an agile environment and collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and analysts across our Tallinn and London offices. This is a full-time engineering role at mid-senior level with a starting salary of 87,000 to 111,000 plus RSUs. We are proud of our diverse, equitable, and inclusive international team and offer Wise benefits.

last updated 34 week of 2026