{"id":1148222,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-backend-software-engineer","title":"Backend Software Engineer","company":{"id":3856,"name":"Wise","domain":"wise.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/wise","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":27,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":87500,"max":111000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":147471},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"MariaDB","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T14:39:21Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T16:25:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. 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. For everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\n What will you be working on?\nDrive automation and centralisation across partner pricing and billing systems.\n\nBuild and extend reconciliation systems that ensure pricing and billing accuracy for partners.\n\nDesign and implement automated controls around pricing and billing, supporting compliance requirements and financial integrity.\n\nDeliver secure solutions for complex partner requirements with a long-term architectural perspective.\n\nTechnical responsibilities\nDesign and build features end-to-end across pricing and billing services.\n\nContribute to architectural decisions and code reviews, helping raise the bar on quality, reliability, and observability.\n\nImprove the resilience and scalability of systems that support external partners and financial operations.\n\nWork with event-driven architectures, including Kafka, alongside MongoDB and MariaDB to build auditable, extensible, and performant systems.\n\nUse AI tooling in the development lifecycle to support delivery and code quality.\n\n 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!\nTechnical excellence\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of contributing significantly to impactful projects.\n\nExperience with Java or a similar object-oriented programming language.\n\nAbility to design systems with a longer-term approach, using patterns that allow safe iteration and scaling.\n\nAccountability within your team for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you build.\n\nGood judgement in balancing speed, scalability, and risk, with resilience and safety in mind.\n\nAbility to address technical debt pragmatically and plan work within an appropriate risk appetite.\n\nCommitment to engineering best practices across observability, security, testing, and responsible data and event usage.\n\nOwnership and product mindset\nOwnership of technical deliverables across projects from design through production.\n\nAbility to explain why something is being built, what partner or business problem it solves, and what outcome is expected.\n\nComfort with long-term ownership of systems while collaborating to reduce single points of failure.\n\nWillingness to take an active role in incident resolution and post-incident learning.\n\nFocus on predictable delivery and a healthy engineering cadence.\n\nParticipation in on-call support for your area when needed.\n\nInfluence and collaboration\nCommunicate clearly and collaborate effectively across functions to achieve team goals.\n\nMentor and support other engineers in the team.\n\nHelp onboard new engineers when needed.\n\nPromote collaboration that reduces duplicate work and improves shared understanding.\n\nContribute to broader engineering efforts, communities, or guilds across Wise.\n\nParticipate in hiring processes and interviews using Wise interviewing practices.\n\nNice to have\nExperience in payments, fintech, billing, or another regulated financial domain.\n\nExperience working with external partners or B2B integrations where correctness and auditability matter.\n\nExperience with systems involving compliance, audit, or regulatory requirements.\n\nFamiliarity with event-driven architectures, reconciliation systems, or configuration-heavy domains.\n\n We are currently only considering local candidates as relocation support is not provided. For local candidates we are able to support transfer of visa sponsorship.\nInterested? Find out more:\nHow we work - a practical guide\n\nDEI @ Wise\n\nWise Tech Stack (2025 update)\n\nOur Engineering career map\n\nScaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work\n\nWise Engineering -https://medium.com/wise-engineering\n\nWhat do we offer:\nStarting salary: £87.5k - £111k + RSUs\n\nWise Benefits\n\nFor 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":4943,"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":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Financial Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T16:25:26Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:5","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T22:12:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":147471,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-backend-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-backend-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T22:12:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}