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Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether 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.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\n We’re unable to support relocation or visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates will need to already be based in the UK (or able to work from the UK).\nWe are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Send Core team.\nWe provide the critical infrastructure that every sending transaction flows through - from 10 pounds sent to a friend to a multi-million dollar business payment. We are on a mission to make sending money as easy and fast as paying for groceries with your card.\nApart from keeping our core infrastructure in a good shape, we are building customer-facing products that power the customer's send journey.\nHow we work:\nWe believe that an engineer is more than just a coder. Our engineers are focused on improving our customers’ experience - and they see the impact of their work on millions of people every day.\nWise is all about collaboration. You will be surrounded by passionate people and work together with them to progress our mission.\nWhat will you be working on?:\nShape our Products: Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver best experience for our customers\n\nControl Critical Infrastructure: Own the systems that every sending transactions depends on across the entire platform\n\nDrive Technical Excellence: Make architectural decisions for the core send components, making them reliant and performant\n\nWhat do you need?:\nWe understand that you may not have much experience in our stack, or you haven’t worked with the frontend for a while - and that’s fine! As long as you are willing to learn and have strong fundamentals - we want to hear from you.\nTechnical excellence\nStrong computer science fundamentals\n\nStrong knowledge of the modern tech stack and design concepts\n\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and simply\n\nProduct mindset\nFocus on solving real customer problems with every change you made\n\nClear understanding of why we are building what we are building\n\nAbility to think in product terms - not just on the code level\n\nPersonal qualities\nPassion to always learn and grow\n\nGetting things done yourself, instead of waiting to be told what to do\n\nCuriosity to explore ways to improve our products and your day-to-day work\n\nInterested? Find out more:\nHow we work - a practical guide\n\nDEI @ Wise\n\nWise Tech Stack (2025 update)\n\nSee what it's like to work at Wise London!\n\nOur Engineering career map\n\nWise Engineering -https://medium.com/wise-engineering\n\nWhat do we offer:\nStarting salary: £68,000 - £87,500\n\nWise Benefits\n\n#LI-AB3 #LI-Hybrid\n 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.\nWe're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.\nInclusive 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.\nIf you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.\nKeep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3612,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Money Transfer & Remittances","Currency Exchange & FX Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T17:08:56Z"}],"liveness":{"score":59,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.594,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:5","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":116011,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-backend-engineer-send-core-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-backend-engineer-send-core-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T02:57:22Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2612,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2388,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}