Senior Software Engineer - APAC Expansion (Korea)

Join Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make international money transfers easier and more affordable. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building innovative financial solutions for customers in South Korea and the APAC region. You will work on core product development, create user-friendly interfaces, and drive product improvements that enhance the customer experience.

About Wise

• Develop Wise Products from the heart of South Korea, bringing expertise to challenge South Korea’s banking status quo and build the best financial experience for Korean 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/).

Responsibilities

• Elevate the mission by scaling across the APAC region, reaching hundreds of millions more customers while shielding them from technical complexity through beautifully simple, high-impact product experiences.
• Work on the core flow of Wise, ensuring customers get the best experience even when things don’t go as planned by building self-service solutions, automating the resolution, and building efficient tooling for the Operations team.
• Own the technical domain of your team with a view on how it should move forward
• Propose ideas to improve and grow your team’s product
• Embrace long-term ownership of projects while training other engineers to reduce single points of failure

Requirements

• You have solid Java 17 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework
• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design
• You approach challenges with a strong product mindset, prioritise customer needs and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• You have led the design and development of complex engineering solutions and understand their broader impact on business outcomes.
• You have excellent communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience in English and Korean.
• You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers
• You have front end experience with one of JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, or other
• You are familiar with Continuous Integration and deployment frameworks

Some extra skills and experiences that would be great

• You have experience with financial systems including how payments and digital onboarding flows work.
• You have experience in technical leadership - maintain technical excellence of your team, managing performance, giving feedback, and coaching engineers to thrive.

What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise

• We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by the impact you create and the complexity of problems you can help solve. As a Senior Software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the licence to:
• Lead medium to large (8-16 engineering weeks) sized projects that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers
• Architect and design services that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling
• Collaborate closely across functions like product, analytics, design, and operations to ensure smooth and effective delivery

• …but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!
• To get the best view of what we expect at all levels of our engineering team, you can take a look at our [Engineering Career Map](https://www.wise.jobs/engineering-career-map/)