Senior Software Engineer II - Data Onboarding & Reporting

Wise is on a mission to create money without borders,making it instant, transparent, and eventually free. To support this rapid global growth, our Finance Squad ensures that our financial processes run in an efficient, scalable, and controlled manner. We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer II to join our Data Onboarding Team in London.

In this role, you will be the driving force behind building, scaling, and optimizing the critical data pipelines on top of our Lakehouse (Trino + Iceberg) infrastructure following a strict Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers). You will build robust data pipelines that serve as the foundational bedrock for reporting and assurance across the entire Finance squad.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and optimize robust end-to-end data pipelines on top of our Trino + Iceberg Lakehouse stack.
• Medallion Implementation: Own the extraction, cleaning, and modeling layers to progressively refine raw event logs (Bronze) into verified subledgers (Silver) and structured Gold metrics.
• Stream Processing: Work closely with high-throughput messaging queues (Kafka) and real-time computation models to maintain our data freshness SLAs.
• Data Quality & Assurance: Embed rigorous, automated reconciliation checks within the data pipelines (e.g., balance and double-entry validations) to catch data discrepancies before they reach financial reporting layers.

Requirements:

• Data Lakehouse Mastery: Proven experience building data infrastructure using Trino / Presto and open table formats like Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
• Advanced Data Modeling: Deep expertise in Medallion Architecture patterns, Star Schemas, and processing semi-structured financial data logs (JSON/Avro).
• Robust ETL/ELT Orchestration: Expert proficiency in data transformation engines (such as dbt) and scheduling tools (such as Airflow).
• Stream/Message Queues: Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and streaming processing via Apache Kafka.
• Strong Programming Foundations: Proficiency in Python, SQL, or an Object-Oriented language (Java/Scala).

Nice to Haves:

• Experience operating data assets within a regulated SOX/PCAOB compliance environment.
• Familiarity with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) and cloud compute orchestration.
• Prior domain exposure to financial flows, double-entry ledger systems, or accounting integrations.

Benefits:

• Starting salary: £111k - £145k + RSUs
• Wise Benefits