Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
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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.
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Job DescriptionWe are expanding our Latam & Mea Payments Team and are looking for ambitious and highly skilled Senior Software Engineers to join the engineering team.
You will lead the development of the critical integrations enabling money movement across the Latam & Mea regions. By integrating directly with local payment systems and sophisticated cross-border payment systems, you will unlock essential functionality that accelerates our growth, building products that empower consumers and businesses to manage their finances globally.
Your Role:
Your role involves implementing integrations with local banks, payment providers, and connecting our platform to local payment systems as well as optimizing funnels to handle the complexities of cross-country money movement within your specific area.
This role requires a high level of technical and product excellence and a passion for building high-quality, scalable, and compliant solutions tailored for the unique financial infrastructure and regulatory landscape of our region. Beyond writing good code, you will propose solid technical designs, participate in code and design reviews, and collaborate with global engineering teams to build the core infrastructure that unlocks and grows new markets.
What You'll Be Doing:
Design, develop, test, deploy and manage direct connections with local payment schemes and integrations with regional banks to establish foundation-level money movement capabilities across diverse international markets.
Define the technical direction by advocating for high-quality designs, providing critical feedback in peer reviews, and actively shaping the future roadmap for our payments ecosystem.
Take your local in-market learnings and work with global engineering teams to ensure the systems you build seamlessly influence and integrate with our worldwide platform.
Participate in on-call rotations to support operational teams and address incidents, ensuring our platform remains secure and consistently available for our customers.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers in our other global offices, to align on product vision and technical implementation for regional expansion
Qualifications
A proactive and ambitious mindset, with a desire to take ownership and make a significant impact
Autonomous team player able to work effectively with minimal supervision.
Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality, scalable systems and a strong Product mindset
Deep technical expertise in back-end development and microservices architecture
Experience in designing and building software systems and collaborating on technical designs within a team or domain
Strong ability to provide constructive feedback during code and design reviews
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to break down complex challenges
Nice to Have:
Experience working on payments systems, money movement, financial integrations
Experience in the FinTech or payments industry
Experience leveraging LLMs (e.g. claude code) to enhance the software development lifecycle.
Java proficiency
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What do we offer:
Starting salary: £111,000 to £145,000 +RSUs
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If you're interested in multiple roles, please apply for just one—the one you're most excited about. If you submit multiple applications requiring the same assessment, we'll continue your recruitment journey using your first application, and any duplicate applications will be automatically closed. This helps ensure a fair and consistent interview process. If another role feels like a better fit, you can discuss this with your recruiter during the process.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer with track record delivering high-quality, scalable systems and strong product mindset
- Deep technical expertise in back-end development and microservices architecture
- Experience designing and building software systems and collaborating on technical designs within a team or domain
- Strong ability to provide constructive feedback during code and design reviews
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to break down complex challenges
- Autonomous team player able to work effectively with minimal supervision
- Proactive and ambitious mindset with desire to take ownership and make significant impact
- Participate in on-call rotations to support operational teams and address incidents
- Experience working on payments systems, money movement, financial integrations
- Experience in the FinTech or payments industry
- Experience leveraging LLMs (e.g., Claude) to enhance the software development lifecycle
- Java proficiency
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Global paid time off is presented as 33–36 days including local public holidays, plus three “Me Days,” with a paid six‑week sabbatical and stipend after four years. Work-from-anywhere for up to 90 days per year after six months further complements time away and flexibility.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — RSUs are granted to all employees, enabling broad ownership in the company. Equity is positioned as a standard, company‑wide component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous across markets, with U.S. pages listing up to 18 weeks fully paid for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non‑birthing parents. Additional family‑oriented supports such as onsite Mother’s Rooms and abortion travel benefits are noted in certain locations.
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What We Do
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world's money. Launched in 2011, Wise is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable tech companies. In fiscal year 2025, Wise supported around 15.6 million people and businesses, processing over $185 billion in cross-border transactions and saving customers around $2.6 billion.
Why Work With Us
We’re truly global in who we are, how we work, and how we build. Everything we do is centred around creating a world of money that’s fast, easy, fair. And open to all. Everyone who works here owns a piece of Wise, from the work they do, to the stock they hold.
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