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From the employer's careers site First seen 31 Oct 2026

Senior Backend Engineer – Contacts

Wise Tallinn Hybrid senior full-time

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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.

The Contacts team is a core team at Wise, dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to, to the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery, all the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their counterparties.

You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient’s user experience. You will help us scale-up and build a world-class recipient management product.

Qualifications:

  • Experience working with large-scale distributed systems
  • Years of Java 5+ knowledge
  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, and designing schemas
  • Strong product mindset and passion for customer experience
  • Enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
  • Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
  • Believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews, and open feedback
  • Enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test-Driven Development

Nice to have:

  • Experience with Spring Boot
  • Worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

What you get back:

  • RSU's in a growing company
  • Annual self-development budget
  • 3 fully paid ‘me days’ per year to help you manage life
  • Paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

Skills

Required

  • Java 5+
  • large-scale distributed systems
  • relational and non-relational databases
  • query optimisation
  • designing schemas
  • RESTful APIs
  • Test-Driven Development

Nice to have

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