Senior Software Engineer - APAC Expansion

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.

APAC Expansion specialises in taking Wise from 0 to 1 in markets where our products are unavailable or our presence is still limited. We build the expertise needed to launch in each market, understanding local payment infrastructure and regulatory requirements, and how customers need to use Wise.

You will help turn unfamiliar requirements into working products, build integrations with local partners, and improve the services that support them.

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical plan and delivery of projects, from understanding the customer problem through rollout and ongoing operation.
• Contribute significant engineering work to larger market launches.
• Build onboarding and money movement services that meet local requirements and fit into Wise's global platform.
• Work with product managers and colleagues in compliance, banking, and operations to clarify requirements, resolve dependencies, and agree practical delivery milestones.
• Contribute to the team's roadmap.
• Explain the customer impact of your work, challenge assumptions, and use data and operational feedback to guide improvements.
• Design services that are easy to change as a market develops.
• Take responsibility for their reliability and security, and address technical debt before it limits delivery.
• Help colleagues deliver through design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Share knowledge so others can confidently maintain and develop what you build.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation, including support outside working hours when needed.
• Help lead incident response and follow through on improvements.
• Explore where AI tools can help with engineering work, reviewing their output carefully and taking responsibility for the code you ship.

Qualifications:

• Strong Java and Spring experience.
• Built and operated backend services in production.
• Understand distributed systems and asynchronous communication.
• Experience with databases, including schema design and query optimisation.
• Taken a project from an uncertain starting point to production.
• Can break work into useful increments, communicate risks early, and keep delivery moving.
• Care about the customer problem behind a requirement.
• Can explain technical decisions to colleagues outside engineering.
• Helped other engineers succeed through mentoring, constructive feedback, or coordinating delivery.
• Comfortable bringing people together to work through a problem and making space for others to contribute.
• Can learn an unfamiliar domain, ask for help when needed, and adjust your approach as new information emerges.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with payments, financial systems, or digital onboarding.
• Frontend experience with a framework such as React or Angular.

What you can expect: You'll have ownership of your projects and a voice in how the team builds its products. You'll develop expertise in launching financial products across APAC, with opportunities to mentor colleagues, support onboarding, and contribute to engineering interviews.