Backend Engineer - Send Core

Company Overview

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. With min fees and maximum ease, Wise helps people and businesses send money internationally, spend abroad, and make and receive international payments.

As part of the team, you will help create an entirely new network for the world’s money.

Role Overview

Wise is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Send Core team.

Send Core provides the critical infrastructure that every sending transaction flows through—from sending 10 pounds to a friend to multi-million dollar business payments. In addition to maintaining core infrastructure, the team builds customer-facing products that power the customer’s send journey.

How We Work

We believe engineers are more than just coders. You will focus on improving the customer experience and see the impact of your work on millions of people every day.

Wise is built on collaboration—working with passionate teammates to progress our mission.

What You Will Work On

• Shape Products: Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver the best customer experience.
• Control Critical Infrastructure: Own the systems that every sending transaction depends on across the entire platform.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Make architectural decisions for the core send components to ensure they are reliable and performant.

What You Need

We understand you may not have much experience in our stack, or you may not have worked with the frontend for a while. That’s okay—as long as you are willing to learn and have strong fundamentals, we want to hear from you.

Technical Excellence

• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Strong knowledge of the modern tech stack and design concepts
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and simply

Product Mindset

• Focus on solving real customer problems with every change you make
• Clear understanding of why we are building what we are building
• Ability to think in product terms—not just at the code level

Personal Qualities

• Passion to always learn and grow
• Ownership—getting things done without waiting to be told what to do
• Curiosity to explore ways to improve products and your day-to-day work

Additional Information

Wise is committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and create an environment where every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute, and able to progress in their career.