Staff Software Engineer - Treasury Safeguarding

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Wise is a global technology company revolutionising how the world moves and manages money, with customers trusting us with £19 Billion in funds across 11+ licensed entities. The Treasury Safeguarding Engineering Team is mission-critical, building scalable services to protect customer funds as we expand into new markets and products. You'll tackle exciting challenges like high-volume data processing, performance optimisation, fault-tolerant systems, and deep treasury domain expertise while collaborating across Engineering, Analytics, and business teams like Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Risk. In this Staff Software Engineer role, you'll develop real-time systems and controls compliant with global regulations, prioritising customer safety and business growth. With a strong product mindset, ownership, and technical excellence in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and databases, you'll drive impactful projects end-to-end. Join a diverse, inclusive team committed to continuous improvement, best practices, and making money work without borders for everyone, everywhere. Base salary £105,000-£130,000 + RSUs, plus Wise's exceptional benefits in a flexible, global environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scalable and reliable services for safeguarding customer funds at global scale
• Build systems, processes and controls to manage financial and operational risks in real time
• Ensure compliance with local regulations across global markets
• Handle high data volumes, fight performance bottlenecks and implement fault-tolerant solutions
• Deep dive into finance and treasury domain challenges
• Collaborate with Engineering, Analytics, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Risk & Controls teams
• Advocate best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
• Prioritise and deliver incremental value through data-driven decisions

Required Qualifications

• Strong product mindset, prioritising work with customers in mind and making data-driven decisions
• Sense of ownership and great communication skills to drive projects across teams
• Ability to work independently while being a good team player with frequent cross-team collaboration
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns and passion for writing clean, performant, well-tested code

Preferred Qualifications

• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Knowledge and experience with realtime data processing and a messaging system like Kafka
• Knowledge of Java and Spring Boot
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, SQL query optimisation and designing schemas

Required Skills

• Product mindset
• Data-driven decision making
• Ownership and communication
• Cross-team collaboration
• Project breakdown and delivery
• Design and architectural patterns
• Clean, performant, well-tested code
• Realtime data processing
• Messaging systems like Kafka
• Java and Spring Boot

Benefits

• RSUs (stock options)
• Flexible working
• Me days and mission days
• Paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Learning budget
• Health insurance
• Company retreat
• Wise card

Wise is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce.