Senior Software Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of highly scalable and resilient services using Java and Spring Boot within a microservices architecture.
• Apply domain-driven design (DDD) to model complex financial domains and build robust solutions for the partner ecosystem.
• Drive the development and adoption of event-driven architectures using Kafka to ensure system reliability and scalability.
• Architect and optimize relational database systems, specifically PostgreSQL, ensuring high performance and data integrity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Implementation, and Business Development to support global partner integrations.
• Provide technical leadership by influencing architecture decisions, participating in code reviews, and mentoring engineers to raise technical standards.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience building backend systems using Java and Spring Boot in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven experience building or operating event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases like PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to apply domain-driven design principles to complex business domains.
• Strong technical leadership skills with a track record of mentoring engineers and influencing cross-team architecture.
• Excellent communication skills to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company on a mission to make moving money across borders instant, convenient, transparent, and much cheaper. We are building a new network for the world's money, enabling people and businesses to manage international payments with ease.