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Company Description

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. 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.

Job Description

We are looking for a Software Engineer with a strong product and engineering mindset to join our Treasury FX Risk team. Our team calculates FX risk from trading foreign exchange to meet Wise's liquidity needs. We manage mission‑critical services that provide accurate real‑time risk calculations and aggregate market data from platforms like Bloomberg and Reuters. Collaborating with Data Science, we also ensure risks are hedged accurately and dynamically. Our systems offer a real‑time view of Wise’s global financial positions, translating transactions into actual and forecasted money movements. Trading teams rely on our data to manage FX exposure and execute trades worth tens to hundreds of millions of pounds, making reliability and scalability our top priorities.

How We Work

We operate on a strong belief in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. We’re looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the treasury tribe. As we grow, sustaining our trajectory requires ongoing refinement and iteration of our services with a focus on availability, security, and user experience. We need a seasoned engineer who can dissect complex requirements and create elegant, impactful solutions, empowering our teams to advance our mission with agility and confidence.

What will you be working on?

• Improving the scalability and reliability of our exchange rates infrastructure
• Designing and implementing real‑time data streaming flows to enable real‑time monitoring of metrics related to financial risks
• Tackle challenges related to processing large data volumes, addressing performance bottlenecks, and implementing fault‑tolerant solutions
• Gain in‑depth expertise in the finance and treasury domains, contributing to the management of Wise's financial infrastructure
• Collaborate deeply with Operations, Analytics, Trading, and Product teams to align technical and business objectives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Extensive experience and proven track record in software engineering, ideally with a focus on financial systems or markets (not hard requirement)
• Exceptional product mindset, able to balance customer‑centric and data‑driven approaches
• Expertise in messaging systems such as Kafka
• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot is highly valued
• Experience with both relational and non‑relational database design
• Commitment to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
• Advocating for best practices in code quality, continuous delivery, and robust code reviews

What You Get Back

• Stock options in a growing company
• Hybrid working: up to two days of working from home each week and three months fully remote. Find out more about our hybrid way of working
• A paid 6‑week sabbatical leave after four years
• Parental leave: 26 weeks maternity leave at full pay, plus 13 weeks at statutory maternity pay, 18 weeks with full pay for paternity leave
• An annual, all‑expenses‑paid company trip – Mission days
• Private medical insurance, pension plan
• An annual self‑development budget

Salary and Benefits

• Starting salary: £85,000‑£105,000 + RSU
• Wise benefits

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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