Software Engineer, Account Discovery at Wise

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Updated 2026-11-05, from our data and official sources.

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Build backend services that produce near real-time account overviews (actions, balances, events) with low latency and high correctness.
- Implement personalised, context-aware recommendation and discovery capabilities that are measurable and experimentable.
- Design and maintain APIs and supporting systems to ensure consistency, performance and cross-region availability.
- Tackle distributed system challenges: resilience, idempotency, retries, failure modes and capacity planning.
- Instrument services for observability and enable A/B testing and measurement across features.
- Embed security, privacy and compliance into design and delivery from day one.
- Collaborate closely with product, design and other engineers to prioritise customer value and deliver iterative improvements.

Requirements:
- Professional software development experience; preferably strong Java experience.
- Product mindset with focus on customer experience and data-driven decision making.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, schema design and query optimisation.
- Good engineering practices: clean, testable code, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with distributed and concurrent systems and related tooling.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort with experimentation, instrumentation and measuring impact in production.

Responsibilities

Develop high-scale, low-latency backend services to power the account discovery dashboard and personalized recommendations. Build secure, resilient APIs and distributed systems that provide real-time account overviews for millions of customers.

Requirements

Requires software development experience, preferably in Java, with strong skills in database design and distributed systems. Candidates should possess a product-driven mindset and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Key skills

• Java — in 360 other listings on The Stack
• Backend Development — in 171 other listings on The Stack
• Relational Databases — in 74 other listings on The Stack
• Non-relational Databases — in 20 other listings on The Stack
• Query Optimisation — not in any other listing on The Stack
• Schema Design — in 22 other listings on The Stack
• CI/CD Pipelines — in 53 other listings on The Stack
• Distributed Systems — in 342 other listings on The Stack
• Concurrent Systems
• API Design
• A/B Testing
• Instrumentation
• Clean Code
• Unit Testing
• Product Mindset
• Technical Communication

On The Stack (as of 2026-11-05)

• Wise has 48 other listings on The Stack, 46 of them marked as offering visa sponsorship.
• 214 visa-sponsored jobs in the United Kingdom on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.
• 195 visa-sponsored software engineer jobs in Europe on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.

Frequently asked questions about Wise

Is this Software Engineer, Account Discovery role still open?

It was posted on 2026-05-13. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Wise's site before applying.

Does Wise offer visa sponsorship?

This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Wise's site.

Where is this role located?

The listing gives the location as London, United Kingdom. It is marked on-site.

What skills does this role ask for?

The listing names: Java, Backend Development, Relational Databases, Non-relational Databases, Query Optimisation, Schema Design, CI/CD Pipelines, Distributed Systems, Concurrent Systems, API Design, A/B Testing, Instrumentation, Clean Code, Unit Testing, Product Mindset, Technical Communication.