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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Backend Developer • On-site • Full-time • 📍 Budapest

Senior Staff Software Engineer role on Wise's Mitigation Platform Squad, driving long-term technical strategy for the platform that safeguards the company against financial crime and orchestrates customer information requests.

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Responsibilities

  • Be instrumental in building and maintaining robust and scalable systems, embedded in one team at a time
  • Collaborate closely on feature implementation and issue resolution
  • Discover the main problems in the space and drive the long-term technical strategy around your ownership
  • Balance immediate business needs with sustainable architecture and long-term scalability
  • Play a key role in cross-team collaboration, including documenting at the appropriate abstraction level

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in Java or other JVM-based languages
  • 2+ years of experience architecting large scale systems, with proven ability to propose and implement domain-driven technical solutions capable of scaling with the business
  • Willingness to take broad ownership of squad responsibilities (building roadmaps, scoping) while mentoring teams on their technical and product roadmaps
  • Experience up-levelling junior engineers and providing guidance to senior engineers via processes, setting a high bar for them to follow

Nice to have

  • Experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale projects to successful completion across multiple engineering teams

Soft skills

Proactive, effective communicator, able to describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences, eager to learn new domains with a strong bias towards action

About the company

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money — helping people and businesses send money abroad, spend internationally, and make cross-border payments with minimal fees and maximum ease.

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