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**Job Title:** Senior Backend Engineer – Contacts **Location:** Tallinn **Experience:** Senior **Role Overview:** Lead a team to scale and build a world-class recipient management product, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering user experience. Collaborate with designers, PMs, and analysts to deliver features and fix pain-points. **Required Skills:** - Proven experience with large-scale distributed systems and Java 5+ - Strong product mindset and passion for customer experience - Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and schema design - Adept at designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs - Familiarity with test-driven development (TDD) - Experience working in an agile environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams **Nice to have:** - Experience with Spring Boot - Experience with Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) **What you'll get back:** - Competitive salary and RSUs in a growing company - Annual self-development budget and 'me days' for personal time - Paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
- Compensation
- €5,750 – €7,083 EUR
- City
- Not specified
- Country
- Estonia
Currency: € (EUR)
Full Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer Contacts
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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the worlds 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.
More about our mission and what we offer.
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. The team is integral to Wises day-to-day operations if our services go down, Wise goes down.
How we work
We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with designers, the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Tallinn and London offices.
What will you be working on?
You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipients user experience. You will help us scale-up and build a world class recipient management product.
What do you need?
We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!
You get things done
You have experience working with large scale distributed systems
You have years of Java 5+ knowledge
You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
Nice to have:
You have experience with Spring boot
You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)
What you get back:
RSU's in a growing company
An annual self-development budget
3 fully paid me days per year to help you manage life
A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
Interested? Find out more:
How we work a practical guide
Our Engineering career map
Our values
or check out our Engineering blog.
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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