Wise Payments Limited

Senior Software Engineer I – Contacts Team

Wise Payments Limited · London, UK
London, UK $87K–$111K Posted 2026-06-30
Salary
$87K–$111K
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ yr

The Contacts team is a core team at Wise, dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to, to the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery, all the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their counterparties. The team is integral to Wise’s day-to-day operations — if our services go down, Wise goes down.

How we work

We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with designers, the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Tallinn and London offices.

What will you be working on?

You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient’s user experience. You will help us scale-up and build a world class recipient management product.

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!


You get things done


You have experience working with large scale distributed systems


You have Java knowledge


You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas


You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points


You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem


You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs


You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback


You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development

Nice to have:


You have experience with Spring boot


You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

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

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

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.

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer .

Interested? Find out more:


How we work - a practical guide


DEI @ Wise


Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)


See what it’s like to work at Wise London


Our engineering career map

Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:


Starting salary: £87,000 - £111,000 + RSUs


Wise Benefits

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs .

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram .

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit  Wise.Jobs .

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on  LinkedIn  and  Instagram .

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