Description
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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer II with deep systems thinking, data engineering expertise, and a product-oriented mindset to join our Treasury FX function , spanning both the Market Data and Risk Engineering teams. Our team builds the real-time infrastructure that powers Wise's FX pricing, risk management, and trade execution.
You will be the technical anchor across both engineering teams, owning the architectural direction of 14+ production services, from rate ingestion and distribution, through real-time risk calculation, to automated hedge execution. The primary mission: build Wise's first semi-automated trade and hedge execution platform in close coordination with FX dealers, quantitative researchers, and treasury controllers.
Our stack is polyglot and modern: Java 21 + Spring Boot 4.x, Python 3.12, Apache Flink (streaming), Kafka, gRPC + Protobuf, and Bloomberg/Reuters real-time feeds.
Responsibilities:
- Architecting a semi-automated hedge execution platform, from exposure decomposition through model-driven hedge proposals to programmatic trade execution on external partners
- Building real-time streaming pipelines with Apache Flink for portfolio-split exposure computation, tenor interpolation, and hedge lifecycle event processing
- Evolving our rate infrastructure for 10x throughput with FX Forwards, new corridors, NDFs and work on cross-provider deviation alerting
- Building production infrastructure for quant models for VaR, beta-adjusted exposure management, dynamic pricing and FRP cancellations.
- Owning Kafka topology design and schema evolution across the full pipeline: rate ingestion → risk calculation → trade execution → analytics
- Driving technical roadmap across both teams, mentoring IC2/IC3 engineers, and leading incident response for Tier-1 critical services
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in financial systems, trading, or real-time data infrastructure
- Deep expertise in Java (17+) with Spring Boot in high-throughput production environments
- Extensive experience with Apache Kafka, topic design, schema evolution, consumer group management at scale
- Strong data engineering skills, building real-time streaming pipelines with Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, or equivalent
- Proven track record designing and operating distributed systems processing millions of events per day
- Demonstrated ability to own system reliability end-to-end: SLOs, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery
- Experience leading technical design of complex multi-service architectures and influencing without direct authority
- Exceptional product mindset , able to translate business requirements from traders, operations, and quants into technical strategy
- Track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers and raising team-wide engineering standards
Benefits:
- Starting salary: £111,000-£145,000 + RSU