Senior Staff Software Engineer

Join Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make financial services faster, simpler, and more accessible for everyone. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining robust and scalable systems, collaborating closely on feature implementation and issue resolution, and driving the long-term technical strategy around your ownership. You will also play a key role in cross-team collaboration and mentoring junior engineers.

About Wise

• You’ll have found your place in our mission by understanding how to drive engineering solutions and suggesting future challenges
• You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class money product that impacts millions of customers
• For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
• If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit [](https://www.wise.jobs/).
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/1769571/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wisecareers/).
• For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
• If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit [](https://www.wise.jobs/).
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/1769571/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wisecareers/).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with team members on feature implementation and issue resolution, driving the long-term technical strategy around your ownership.
• Take broad ownership of squad responsibilities, including building roadmaps and scoping, while mentoring teams on their technical and product roadmaps.
• Lead engineering teams and drive large-scale projects to successful completion across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business needs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in Java or other JVM-based languages.
• 2+ years of experience in architecting large scale systems with proven ability to propose and implement domain-driven technical solutions capable of scaling along with the business.
• Willingness to take broad ownership of squad responsibilities (building roadmaps, scoping) while mentoring teams on their technical and product roadmaps.
• Experience in up-levelling junior engineers and providing guidance to senior engineer via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
• You are a proactive, effective communicator who is able to describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences and eager to learn new domains and have a strong bias towards action.
• Experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale projects to successful completion across multiple engineering teams is a nice-to-have.

Benefits

• You’ll make contributions to the wider engineering goals of the company
• You’ll inspire a team environment where ideas are shared and openness is valued

You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives