Senior Software Engineer - Finance Core Accounting

Join Wise, a fast-growing company on a mission to make money without borders the new normal. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Core Accounting team, you will design, develop, and test applications using Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and React in a microservices environment. You will also participate in the development of our ledger as a service, aggregation pipeline for financials, and 3rd party integrations.

About Wise

• 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/).

Responsibilities

• Concevoir, développer et tester des applications en utilisant Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka et React dans un environnement de microservices.
• Participer au développement de notre service de grand livre, de l'agrégation des finances et des intégrations tierces.
• Diriger la feuille de route technique et les livrables pour des initiatives significatives et impactantes.
• Own large-scale projects: Lead the technical roadmap and deliverables for significant, impactful initiatives (8+ engineering weeks)
• Design scalable systems: Build backend services and APIs with a long-term approach, using design patterns that enable easy iteration and scaling
• Full-stack contribution: Work across the entire stack with particular strength in backend technologies, ensuring seamless integration between frontend and backend systems
• Maintain system reliability: Take accountability for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you build
• API-first design: Ensure all products are designed with strong, well-documented APIs that partners and internal teams can easily consume
• Drive technical roadmap: Own and contribute to your team's technical roadmap alongside product partners
• Product thinking: Provide strong feedback on product roadmaps, always able to articulate why something is being built, what customer problem it solves, and expected impact
• Technical debt management: Proactively address technical debt and plan work to keep it within risk appetite
• Cross-team collaboration: Promote collaboration across teams to minimize duplicate work and align everyone toward common goals
• Mentor engineers: Coach and assist other engineers in your team and broader engineering guilds
• Own onboarding: Lead the onboarding process for new engineers joining your team
• Ownership mindset: Embrace long-term ownership while building redundancy and knowledge sharing

Requirements

• Engineering practices: Ensure your team follows Wise's engineering best practices (observability, security, database usage, testing, etc.)
• Backend mastery: Expert-level knowledge in backend technologies with up-to-date knowledge of your discipline
• Full-stack capabilities: Strong understanding of frontend technologies and ability to work across the entire stack
• Distributed systems: Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and how to design them effectively
• System design: Experience designing and building scalable, maintainable systems with proper abstractions
• Cross-functional collaboration: Excellent communication skills across engineering, product, design, and other functions

Preferred

• Mentorship skills: Proven ability to coach and develop other engineers
• Cultural contributor: Exemplify Wise values and contribute

Pay

EUR 5,750 - 7,083

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