Senior Backend Engineer - Brazil Regional Expansion

Wise

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 life 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.

Job Description

The team you’ll be working with: Brazil Regional Expansion

We are working on building the most convenient and scalable financial services experience for people and businesses, which is compliant with local regulatory guidelines.

We want our product to be instant, so we integrate with the latest technology and local payment rails to make money movement instant and eventually free.

We want our product to be convenient, our customers should know what is required from them to use Wise. We also care about effectiveness: only ask from the customer what we really need, easy for them to provide and is effective at stopping fincrime.

We want our processes to be scalable. We are working on automating the process for our team, any way we can. We are working with LLMs, building integrations, and working with vendors.

We want to be compliant with regulatory guidelines in Brazil, the region we serve.

 

What does it take?:

  • A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and  make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
  • Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
  • You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
  • You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Distributed and Concurrent Systems (microservices, messaging systems like Kafka)
  • Hands on knowledge of system integration patterns
  • You have solid Java 8 plus knowledge, experience with Spring framework and database abstraction layers like Hibernate

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

 

What does success look like?

  • You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
  • You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work
  • You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them
  • You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product
  • Understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives 
  • You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class money transfer product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities

 

What you get back:

  • The empowerment to solve problems your way and the freedom to have real impact on customers’ lives. 
  • Loads of development opportunities in a growing team through launching new products / features consistently in an in-demand region.
  • A fun work environment with social activities and events
  • The opportunity to work with super smart people

Interested? Find out more:

Additional Information

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.

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