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Engineer Lead - Payin Platform

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London, Greater London, England
Mid level
London, Greater London, England
Mid level
The Engineer Lead for the Payin Platform at Wise will develop and manage an API product that simplifies money flows, collaborating with teams to enhance customer payment experiences, and ensuring quality and performance through best coding practices.
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Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

The Payin Platform team own the systems through which all money flows into Wise, whether that’s to top-up an account, send money across borders, or to help our customers to receive money from their customers. Payin is a critical component to the Wise money-movement machine and we’re looking for an engineer motivated to come and help us build it.

The Payin Platform is an internal API product. We make it as easy as possible for teams to start building on our platform and helping Wise customers to pay in new ways and for new features and services. From topping up a USD balance by paying in BRL with Pix, to a UK business requesting payment from a business in Hungary and allowing them to pay in HUF with a credit card. Our API product facilitates these inflows and presents a unified view of the money movement that consolidates all of these use-cases.

Qualifications

What does it take?

  • A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

  • Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences

  • Leading and inspiring your team of engineers to build the prioritise building right things, in the right way 

  • Ability to deliver work across multiple teams, coordinating your efforts across the organisation.. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.

  • Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value

  • Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment

  • Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested 

  • Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement

  • Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews

  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus

  • Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus

  • …but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Additional Information

What does success look like?

  • You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how your team contributes

  • You’ll be working with the engineers on your team and helping them to align their professional goals with the team’s

  • You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work

  • You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them

  • You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product

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

  • You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class global banking product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

What do we offer: 

  • Salary range: £100000 - £120000

  • Company Restricted Stock Units

  • Numerous great benefits in our London/Tallinn office 

Key benefits:

  • Flexible working - whether it’s working from home, school plays or life admin we get that flexibility is essential and you’re trusted to do the right thing and be responsible

  • Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities

  • 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave

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 Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Top Skills

Java
Kafka
Non-Relational Databases
Relational Databases
Spring Boot

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