Senior Software Java Engineer I - Reliability

Wise
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeGBP 87,500 - 111,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Collaboration","Troubleshooting","Prioritisation","Time management"]

Join the Reliability Engineering team to improve the reliability, performance, and compliance of Wise’s most important backend services. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to optimize critical microservices, build and evolve resilient strategies in shared libraries, and deep-dive with teams to apply reliability best practices. Work with automation-first engineering approaches to enhance availability and customer experience as Wise scales.

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Senior Software Java Engineer I - Reliability

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Job Summary

Join the Reliability Engineering team to improve the reliability, performance, and compliance of Wise’s most important backend services. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to optimize critical microservices, build and evolve resilient strategies in shared libraries, and deep-dive with teams to apply reliability best practices. Work with automation-first engineering approaches to enhance availability and customer experience as Wise scales.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Identify opportunities to optimise performance of critical backend microservices by implementing and improving common libraries used across Wise.
  • •Develop and implement org-wide resilient strategies in code to address capacity, autoscaling, resiliency, performance, and redundancy.
  • •Deep-dive with teams into their services, suggest best practices, and implement changes to improve reliability.
  • •Collaborate cross-functionally with platform and product-focused teams to bridge the gap between product and platform.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 87,500 - 111,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong collaboration skills and the ability to jump into projects with limited context while influencing reliability priorities.
  • •Hands-on experience with microservices in a Kubernetes, cloud-based architecture.
  • •Hands-on software engineering experience with Java or other backend languages, applying reliability and resiliency patterns plus observability.
  • •Ability to troubleshoot application, database, and data-related issues.
  • •Strong prioritisation and effective time management.
Experience:MicroservicesCloudKubernetes
Skills:CollaborationTroubleshootingPrioritisationTime management
Languages:English (UK)
Tech Stack:JavaMicroservicesKubernetesCloudObservabilityAutoscaling

Company Brief

Wise
Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a London-based fintech that provides low-cost international money transfers, multi-currency accounts and payment infrastructure for individuals and businesses worldwide.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2011
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