Wise
Finance / FinServ
StaffBackendEngineer
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“Staff Backend Engineer at Wise. Skills: ownership of complex customer problems, driving initiatives, improving systems, collaboration, mentoring, domain driven design principles, hexagonal architecture, Java, Spring Boot, SQL databases, Kafka, microservices. Take ownership of complex customer problems and drive them end-to-end. proposing solutions”
What You'll Achieve.
measure the impact
Industry & Context.
solving complex problems with elegant solutions; Understanding the techniques to work with and improve complex existing systems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience with Java, Spring Boot, SQL databases and Kafka, Experience building complex microservices based systems
Nice to Have
Understanding of domain driven design principles and hexagonal architecture
What You'll Do.
Take ownership of complex customer problems and drive them end-to-end
leading the implementation
making sure adequate monitoring and data is in place to measure the impact
Lead technical initiatives that improve our existing systems to reduce complexity and improve development speed
Contribute to our engineering culture through sharing knowledge
practices and design principles
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with other functions in the team to deliver great solutions that take into account customer experience, business needs and technical concerns as well; diverse, cross-functional group; collaborate closely; diverse, equitable and inclusive; truly international team
Communication Scope
break down and communicate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences to collaborate effectively
Process & Methodology
deliver complex projects in a true lean way, breaking them down to quick iterations and milestones, keeping the quality bar high
Full Job 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. More about [our mission](https://wise.jobs/our-mission) and [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer). All our customers start their Wise journey by going through customer verification. We do this to keep our customers' money safe and to prevent criminals from using our products for illegal activities. We in Personal Onboarding Verification are building and running the global KYC (Know Your Customer) system that provides the functionality to verify our customers. This system needs to keep up with increasingly sophisticated methods of criminals, but do it in a way to keep our product convenient and cheap for customers. In addition to building global KYC features, our team also builds the framework for our Regional Teams to localize the verification experience. Our colleagues in Regional Teams extend the system with local verification vendors, collect documents specific to the country and implement any other checks that the local regulations mandate. To succeed, our team needs to implement a system that keeps up with state of the art technology, enables several teams to contribute while keeping complexity and load manageable and has the data and observability to analyse our flows and prove they work according to regulations. Team you will be working with: You'll join our Personal Onboarding Verification team – a diverse, cross-functional group passionate about solving complex problems with elegant solutions. We bring together engineering disciplines across the stack, designers, data analysts, and product managers w
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