Senior Software Engineer - Insights
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Job description
The Account team empowers every Wise customer with the clarity and control they need to unlock the full potential of their wealth. We own the key surfaces that provide transparency, control, and relevant recommendations across all money movements-from spending and saving to borrowing and sharing.
Our mission is to move beyond static transaction lists to a stellar insights experience by delivering a holistic view of a user's financial life (both within and outside Wise), driving higher engagement, retention, and long-term loyalty.
You'll join a tight, cross-functional team working closely with a Product Manager, analysts, a designer, and a content designer. Our major focus for 2026 is "Contextual Recommendations & Data Foundation" and you'll be instrumental in evolving our architecture from "on-the-fly" calculations to a robust, high-performance data aggregation infrastructure. This is a high-visibility role with direct impact on the core insights experience for millions of active users, involving complex data and performance challenges across currencies, regions, and external providers, and deep collaboration across Wise to bring multiple domains into a single, cohesive customer story., We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Insights team. The team is the primary gateway into Wise, responsible for the dashboard users see when they first log on. We provide summaries of customers' recent actions, own the primary mechanisms to send push notifications and emails, and manage insights to help our customers identify ways to get more out of Wise.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of software development experience (preferably using Java)
- A strong product mindset and passion for customer 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 clean and testable code
- You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Distributed and Concurrent Systems
Benefits & conditions
- The opportunity to gain visibility in the open source community.
- The freedom to have real impact.
- The opportunity to inspire teams.
- A fun work environment with social activities and events
In addition you also get back:
- RSU's in a growing company
- An annual self-development budget
- ?? Statutory maternity leave, with a perk of 18 fully paid weeks of parental leave for birth or adoption
- ?? Paternity leave for 18 weeks at full pay
- 3 fully paid 'me days' per year to help you manage life
- Relocation and visa expenses covered
- ? A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
Find out more about our benefits in our London office.
Interested? Find out more:
- How we work - a practical guide
- Wise Vlogs: Omar, Engineering Lead
- Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
- Our Engineering career map
