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Senior Software Engineer II - Regional Expansion

  • Hybrid
  • 6+ years

Salary

£111,000 - 145,000/ year

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Description

The Latam & Mea Payments Team is growing, and the company is hiring senior software engineers to join its engineering team.

You will lead the build of critical integrations that enable money movement across the Latam and Mea regions. By connecting directly to local payment systems and cross-border payment networks, you will add functionality that supports growth and helps consumers and businesses manage their money globally.

The company is a global technology business that helps people and businesses send money abroad, spend overseas, and make or receive international payments. The team is building a new worldwide network for money.

Responsibilities

  • Build, test, deploy and run direct connections to local payment schemes and regional banks, creating core money movement capability across several international markets.
  • Implement integrations with local banks and payment providers, and connect the platform to local payment systems.
  • Improve conversion funnels to handle the complexity of moving money between countries within your region.
  • Shape the technical direction by championing strong designs, giving sharp feedback in peer reviews, and helping set the payments roadmap.
  • Bring your in-market knowledge to global engineering teams so the systems you build fit into and strengthen the worldwide platform.
  • Join on-call rotations to support operations teams, handle incidents, and keep the platform secure and reliably available for customers.
  • Work with product managers, designers and engineers in other global offices to agree on product vision and technical delivery for regional expansion.

Requirements

  • You are proactive and ambitious, and you want to take ownership and have a large impact.
  • You work independently and well within a team, needing little supervision.
  • You have a proven record as a senior engineer delivering high-quality, scalable systems, and you think like a product person.
  • You have deep back-end development skills and experience with microservices architecture.
  • You have designed software systems and contributed to technical designs within a team or domain.
  • You give constructive feedback in code and design reviews.
  • You solve problems well and can break complex challenges into manageable parts.
  • You have worked on payments systems, money movement or financial integrations.
  • You have experience in FinTech or the payments industry.
  • You have used LLMs, such as Claude Code, to improve your software development lifecycle.
  • You are proficient in Java.

Conditions

The role is based in London.

Starting salary is £111,000 to £145,000, plus RSUs.

The company welcomes people from every background and aims for teams that are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

Benefits

  • Access to the company's benefits package.

Where you’d work

Part of the week in the office

You can work from

  • United Kingdom

About the company

Wise

  • Industry: FinTech

Office in London, United Kingdom

Also hiring in Tallinn, Estonia, Austin, United States and Budapest, Hungary

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Details14 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment, Company
Tech stack
  • Java
  • LLMs
Seniority
Senior
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Industry
FinTech
Specialty
Backend
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Backend
Seniority
Senior
Experience
6+ years
Tech stack
  • Java
  • LLMs

Location

Work model
Hybrid
Region
United Kingdom
Office
  • London, United Kingdom
Remote from
  • United Kingdom

Compensation

Salary
£111,000 - 145,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
FinTech

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