Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack) - Japanese Speaking

Company Description

Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we're on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We've got 16 million customers across the globe and we're growing. Fast.

Current banking systems don't let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.

So, we're building a new one.

We're looking for a full-time Senior Full Stack Developer to join our growing team in Singapore. The role is a unique opportunity to build beautifully simple experiences that guide our customers through Wise, helping them to live, travel and work without borders.

Job Description

How you'll be contributing to our Engineering team:

• Help us take Wise to the next level as we scale to impact 100's of millions more customers. You'll hide away all complexities under the hood of our product and build seamless experiences for our customers.
• Facilitate customer money movement by implementing direct integrations with central bank payment schemes across APAC.
• Develop innovative and scalable systems to enable complex product integrations with banking schemes and partners.
• Collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders, including banking, compliance, sanctions, and operations, to swiftly launch best-in-class products.
• Design and build systems that operate and scale to meet strict SLAs.
• Drive product improvement that impacts the Wise customer experience or empowers internal stakeholders (teams like Operations, Customer Support, Finance, etc.) to do their job effectively.
• Proactively identify and tackle technical debt becoming too big through planning work and aligning the team. Does this with careful evaluation of additional cost on development.

What you can expect as a Senior Engineer at Wise:

We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by your level of impact. As a Senior Software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the license to:

• Consistently seek out and deliver on product level vision, tasks and problems
• Actively assist in scoping and executing most impactful work for the team
• Regularly deliver large features and product improvements that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers
• Embrace long-term ownership of projects while training others to reduce the bus factor or becoming a blocker
• Architect and design services/systems using design patterns that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling
• Actively mentor other Engineers in the team on an individual basis or in group settings and help them grow through technical guidance, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Communicate and collaborate across functions like product, analytics and design as required
• Lead or significantly contribute to medium to large (8-16 engineering weeks) sized projects

To get the best view of what we expect at all levels of our engineering team, you can take a look at our.

Qualifications

What does it take:

• You are proficient in Japanese and able to converse with Japanese business counterparts
• You approach your work with 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.
• You have excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience building highly available and fault tolerant systems.
• You are passionate about writing testable code and practising Test Driven Development.
• You are committed to best coding practices, including thorough code reviews and welcoming open feedback.
• You are enthusiastic about tackling complex product problems and proactive in engaging with and challenging the product roadmap.
• You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers.
• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schema.
• You are familiar with the Continuous Delivery Approach mindset.
• but don't worry we don't expect you to know everything!

Some extra skills that would be great:

• You have solid Java 13 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework
• You have experience with financial systems bonus building and maintaining instant payment schemes.
• You have knowledge of PostgreSQL, advanced types and query features.
• You know your way around event driven architecture and have worked with messaging systems like Kafka, MQs etc.

Additional Information

What the first six months in this role will look like:

• You'll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• Understanding the Wise domain (Fintech) and team specific domain (the problems they're solving form, intricacies of the domains) (50+ eng teams, all have different domain specific topics, they're grouped in tribes e.g. Crime Fighting (Fraud, AML), but they're very different)
• Understanding tech culture: how we build stuff, specific details on the tech stack (in our autonomous teams, teams do lots of different things and work on different stacks so need to understand details)
• You'll have deployed / gone through the entire lifecycle of a microservice on your own
• Skillfully managed and added significant value in interactions with external stakeholders through proficient Japanese language abilities.
• Gone through two quarterly plannings and proposed a few ideas to take your product further

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.

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