{"id":1398693,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-software-engineer-ii-data-onboarding-reporting-2","title":"Senior Software Engineer II - Data Onboarding & Reporting","company":{"id":3856,"name":"Wise","domain":"wise.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/wise","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":31,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":111000,"max":145000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":192247},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Airflow","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Iceberg","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"Delta Lake","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Presto","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Scala","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Trino","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":true}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T11:33:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T00:45:40Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-01T00:45:40Z","days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.\nMin 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.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\n About the Role:\nWise is on a mission to create money without borders-making it instant, transparent, and eventually free. To support this rapid global growth, our Finance Squad ensures that our financial processes run in an efficient, scalable, and controlled manner.\nWe are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer II to join our Data Onboarding Team in London. In this role, you will be the driving force behind building, scaling, and optimizing the critical data pipelines on top of our Lakehouse (Trino + Iceberg) infrastructure following a strict Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers). You will build robust data pipelines that serve as the foundational bedrock for reporting and assurance across the entire Finance squad.\nThe Finance Squad is responsible for steward-shipping the financial truth of Wise. The Data Onboarding team operates alongside Core Accounting, Finance Implementation, and Data & Assurance. Our team's mandate is to abstract product complexity and build reusable, domain-agnostic stream-enrichment pipelines. We handle high-throughput financial event data (processing hundreds of millions of events daily) to bridge the gap between immutable product events and audit-ready data structures.\nWhat will you be working on?\nTechnical Leadership & Pipeline Engineering\nLakehouse Architecture: Design, build, and optimize robust end-to-end data pipelines on top of our Trino + Iceberg Lakehouse stack.\n\nMedallion Implementation: Own the extraction, cleaning, and modeling layers to progressively refine raw event logs (Bronze) into verified subledgers (Silver) and structured Gold metrics.\n\nStream Processing: Work closely with high-throughput messaging queues (Kafka) and real-time computation models to maintain our data freshness SLAs.\n\nData Quality & Assurance: Embed rigorous, automated reconciliation checks within the data pipelines (e.g., balance and double-entry validations) to catch data discrepancies before they reach financial reporting layers.\n\nStrategic Impact & Collaboration\nProduct & Stakeholder Alignment: Partner directly with finance controllers, analysts, product and engineering to turn complex corporate finance needs into production-ready data schemas.\n\nPlatform Alignment: Address data scaling constraints, structural technical debt, and compute optimizations to directly align infrastructure costs with Wise's financial targets.\n\nMentorship & Engineering Excellence\nUpskilling: Assist and coach mid-level/junior engineers within the team, performing thorough code and technical design reviews.\nMust Haves (Hard Skills)\nData Lakehouse Mastery: Proven experience building data infrastructure using Trino / Presto and open table formats like Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.\n\nAdvanced Data Modeling: Deep expertise in Medallion Architecture patterns, Star Schemas, and processing semi-structured financial data logs (JSON/Avro).\n\nRobust ETL/ELT Orchestration: Expert proficiency in data transformation engines (such as dbt) and scheduling tools (such as Airflow).\n\nStream/Message Queues: Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and streaming processing via Apache Kafka.\n\nStrong Programming Foundations: Proficiency in Python, SQL, or an Object-Oriented language (Java/Scala).\n\nNice to Haves\nExperience operating data assets within a regulated SOX/PCAOB compliance environment.\n\nFamiliarity with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) and cloud compute orchestration.\n\nPrior domain exposure to financial flows, double-entry ledger systems, or accounting integrations.\n\nSoft Skills\nA strong sense of long-term technical ownership.\n\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to bridge technical engineering realities with financial analyst requirements.\n\nWhat We Offer / Selling Points\nThe rare opportunity to help engineer the core \"Engine of Trust\" for a fast-growing global fintech moving billions in cross-border volume.\n\nA chance to work beyond isolated data pipelines, building reusable libraries and system-wide framework layers rather than bespoke, one-off fixes.\n\nDirect interaction and collaboration with top-tier product minds, data platform engineers, and global financial stakeholders.\nInterested? Find out more:\nHow we work - a practical guide\n\nDEI @ Wise\n\nWise Tech Stack (2025 update)\nWhat do we offer:\nStarting salary: £111k - £145k + RSUs\nWise Benefits\n#LI-AB3 #LI-Hybrid\nPaved Paths: Create structured framework documentation and automated tooling to reduce onboarding friction for new data sources.\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 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":5720,"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":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Money Transfer & Remittances","Currency Exchange & FX Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T14:28:43Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-01T00:45:40Z"}],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":192247,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-software-engineer-ii-data-onboarding-reporting-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-software-engineer-ii-data-onboarding-reporting-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T00:48:08Z","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":535,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4465,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}