Senior Java Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience building and operating production systems in Java.
• Experience designing distributed services and APIs, including testing, monitoring, and failure handling.
• Practical experience with a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience working with containers and an orchestration platform such as Kubernetes.
• A track record of automating operational work and building repeatable tooling.
• Experience owning shared or mission-critical infrastructure.
• The ability to turn complex requirements into understandable, maintainable solutions.
• A willingness to challenge existing approaches, share what you know, and learn from others.
• Experience with Spinnaker or another large-scale CI/CD platform.
• Practical experience applying SRE principles, such as service-level objectives, error budgets, and automated incident prevention.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, or distributed tracing.
• Knowledge of cloud networking and security.
• Experience working in a regulated environment or with standards such as PCI DSS.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance testing, or load testing.
• Experience producing clear technical documentation and architecture diagrams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate capabilities within our Continuous Delivery platform.
• Evolve our use of the open source CD tool Spinnaker and contribute improvements upstream where appropriate.
• Build reliable guardrails that help engineers deploy changes safely with minimal manual effort.
• Improve the shared foundations of the platform in partnership with other Platform Engineering teams.
• Use telemetry and feedback to understand how the platform performs and where engineers experience friction.
• Work directly with engineering teams as they adopt new deployment patterns and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to technical design, code reviews, documentation, and the development of other engineers.

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GCP
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Prometheus
• Security
• AI

More:

We are Wise, a global technology company on a mission to move and manage the worlds money with minimal fees, maximum ease, and full speed. Our team helps build an entirely new network for the worlds money, making international payments and money movement easier for everyone, everywhere. This is a full-time, mid-senior engineering role based in London within our Continuous Delivery team, working on the platform that helps engineers deploy safely across hundreds of services. We offer a starting salary of 87,500-111,000 GBP plus RSUs, a flexible working environment, regular team and company events, and support for technical leadership growth. We are proud of our diverse, equitable, and inclusive international team and the opportunity to contribute to company-wide engineering scale and open source software.

last updated 35 week of 2026