Backend Engineer – Feature Platform

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Engineering: tackle complex technical challenges focused on scalability, reliability, and speed, maintaining high-performance infrastructure that processes millions of events with low latency
• ▹Innovation: collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers to design and implement cutting-edge feature topologies, including graphs, support vectors, and time-series data
• ▹Engagement: drive platform adoption by partnering with teams across Wise to centralize existing risk logic and expand self-service capabilities

Requirements

• ▹3+ years of Java 11+ knowledge, fluent in Java 21+
• ▹Familiarity with Python (or willingness to learn on the job)
• ▹Experience with batch or stream processing (preferably Apache Spark and Flink/Kafka streams)
• ▹Familiarity with SQL and no-SQL (document) databases
• ▹Experience with complex systems distributed across several microservices, Kafka, scattered data and ownership
• ▹Hands-on knowledge of system integration patterns
• ▹A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, prioritizing work with customers in mind and driving data-driven decisions
• ▹Strong problem-solving skills to help refine problem statements

Soft skills

About the company

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world's money, on a mission to make international money transfers, spending abroad, and international payments easier and cheaper.