Backend Engineer - Pricing

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London, Greater London, England
Hybrid
Mid level
Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Wise is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in the world and we’re on a mission to make money without borders a new norm
The Role
The Backend Engineer for Pricing will develop solutions for fee calculations and product onboarding, build scalable communication pipelines for pricing changes, and create automated tools to improve process efficiency. Responsibilities include working with databases, ensuring code quality, and adapting to full-stack development as necessary.
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Company Description

Wise is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got over 15 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.

Current banking systems don't let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. 

So, we’re building a new one.

Job Description

Pricing is one of the core squads at Wise and it’s responsible for providing a platform and developing solutions that enables the onboarding and calculation of fees, taxes and discount for all our products.

Our mission is to enable teams across Wise.com and Wise Platform to charge customers the right price that supports sustainable growth.

Pricing Delivery is responsible for enabling new features, partners and changes to prices. Team is also responsible for ensuring reliable, consistent, and transparent information about the same. 

What’s in our roadmap:

  • Develop new capabilities and onboard new products for Wise.com and Wise Platform

  • Develop reliable and scalable communication pipeline for price changes

  • Design and develop solutions that aims to automate and scale existing processes and introduce new controls in order to reduce risks and costs

  • Developing internal tools that facilitate the onboarding and rollout of new features and partners and contribute towards creating a reliable and automated reprice process

What does it take:

  • A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points 

  • Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience

  • Experience in working with relational and non-relational databases and schema definition

  • A strong focus on building scalable and maintainable solutions

  • A strong focus on building good quality code and knowledge of Domain Driven Design and the main design patterns

  • You have solid knowledge of Java, or similar OO languages

  • Have experience in working with a microservice architecture, distributed and concurrent systems

  • You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

  • You have experience as a full-stack developer or are not afraid of diving into front-end development if required

What does success look like?:

  • You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute 

  • You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work 

  • You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them 

  • You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product

  • Understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives. You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class pricing product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities


Qualifications

What does it take:

  • A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points 

  • Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience

  • Experience in working with relational and non-relational databases and schema definition

  • A strong focus on building scalable and maintainable solutions

  • A strong focus on building good quality code and knowledge of Domain Driven Design and the main design patterns

  • You have solid knowledge of Java, or similar OO languages

  • Have experience in working with a microservice architecture, distributed and concurrent systems

  • You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

  • You have experience as a full-stack developer or are not afraid of diving into front-end development if required

What does success look like?:

  • You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute 

  • You’ll understand how our values can help you guide your work 

  • You’ll understand the reasons behind problematic payments and customer difficulties and how to go about solving them 

  • You’ll be raising the automation level to enable scaling of the product

  • Understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives. You’ll help us scale-up and build a world class pricing product by finding solutions to our technical challenges and opportunities


Additional Information

What you get back:

  • The empowerment to solve problems with autonomy

  • The opportunity to have real impact on our customers and partners

  • Loads of development opportunities 

  • A fun work environment with social activities and events

  • A hybrid working environment with the possibility to work remotely up to three times a week

  • The opportunity to work with and learn from super smart people

  • The salary ranges between £60,000 - £80,000 with an RSU package

Find out more about our benefits in our London office.


Interested? Find out more:

  • 👀 How we work - a practical guide

  • 📹 Wise Vlogs: Omar, Engineering Lead 

  • 💻 The Wise Tech Stack, 2020 edition

  • 📈 Our Engineering career map

  • 🚀 Engineering career journeys at Wise

...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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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
6,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

We’re making a positive, irreversible change in the world of finance. Together.

People on every continent around the world are choosing Wise to help them live, travel and work internationally. We’re the fairest, easiest way to send money overseas.

Built by and for people who live global lives, we make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. This is money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.

For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B, but behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies and routes, that’s being designed, built and powered by our talented teams in cities around the world.

We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.

Why Work With Us

We are a mission-driven company, looking to change banking for the better. Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So, we’re building a new one. If you're looking for an autonomous work environment, where you'll face cool challenges, learn and grow, you'll like working at Wise

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