Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the Position

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Budapest, Hungary

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.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll be embedded in one team at a time, being instrumental in building and maintaining robust and scalable systems. You’ll collaborate closely on feature implementation and issue resolution, as well as discovering the main problems in the space, driving the long-term technical strategy around your ownership, balancing immediate business needs with sustainable architecture and long-term scalability. You'll also play a key role in cross-team collaboration, essential for building and growing our platform for other Wise teams and iterating over the platform's vision. This includes documenting at the appropriate abstraction level to scale the adoption of our developments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in Java or other JVM-based languages.
• 2+ years of experience in architecting large scale systems with proven ability to propose and implement domain-driven technical solutions capable of scaling along with the business.
• Willingness to take broad ownership of squad responsibilities (building roadmaps, scoping) while mentoring teams on their technical and product roadmaps.
• Experience in up-levelling junior engineers and providing guidance to senior engineer via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow.
• You are a proactive, effective communicator who is able to describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences and eager to learn new domains and have a strong bias towards action.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale projects to successful completion across multiple engineering teams.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. We're on a mission to make financial services faster, simpler, and more accessible for everyone. Our team is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, and we celebrate our differences. We believe that inclusive teams help us live our values and ensure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission, and able to progress in their careers.

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