Senior Software Engineer II- Regional Expansion

About the Position

Senior Software Engineer II - Regional Expansion

We are expanding our Latam & Mea Payments Team and are looking for ambitious and highly skilled Senior Software Engineers to join the engineering team.

You will lead the development of the critical integrations enabling money movement across the Latam & Mea regions. By integrating directly with local payment systems and sophisticated cross-border payment systems, you will unlock essential functionality that accelerates our growth, building products that empower consumers and businesses to manage their finances globally.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and manage direct connections with local payment schemes and integrations with regional banks to establish foundation-level money movement capabilities across diverse international markets.
• Define the technical direction by advocating for high-quality designs, providing critical feedback in peer reviews, and actively shaping the future roadmap for our payments ecosystem.
• Take your local in-market learnings and work with global engineering teams to ensure the systems you build seamlessly influence and integrate with our worldwide platform.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support operational teams and address incidents, ensuring our platform remains secure and consistently available for our customers.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers in our other global offices, to align on product vision and technical implementation for regional expansion.

Requirements

• A proactive and ambitious mindset, with a desire to take ownership and make a significant impact.
• Autonomous team player able to work effectively with minimal supervision.
• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality, scalable systems and a strong Product mindset.
• Deep technical expertise in back-end development and microservices architecture.
• Experience in designing and building software systems and collaborating on technical designs within a team or domain.
• Strong ability to provide constructive feedback during code and design reviews.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to break down complex challenges.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on payments systems, money movement, financial integrations.
• Experience in the FinTech or payments industry.
• Experience leveraging LLMs (e.g. claude code) to enhance the software development lifecycle.
• Java proficiency.

We Offer

• Starting salary: £111,000 to £145,000 + RSUs
• Wise Benefits

About the Company

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 lives 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.

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