IC 5 Product Engineer

At Wise, we’re on a mission to make money borderless, instant, and convenient for millions of people and businesses worldwide. Our engineers are at the heart of this mission, solving complex challenges and building seamless, secure solutions that customers love. We're looking for an IC 5 Product Engineer to join our APAC (Asia Pacific) organisation, in the Hyderabad office APAC customers are a strong contributor to the Wise's growth. With one of the most diverse money movement corridors, multiple markets with different regulations to send, receive, hold and spend, it is essential to scale this organisation tech first. Hyderabad is a new full stack hub and being a senior pioneering engineer helps set the base on which the engineering organization in the location will be built. If this sounds exciting to you then you are in the right place. Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the organization: Design and lead implementation of scalable, customer centric solutions tailored to the diverse APAC markets, reducing redundancies and improving the lead time to expand to more markets. Identify, build and maintain automations that mindfully leverage LLMs across APAC and regional markets to improve speed and efficiency. Own evolution of product observability stack to identify gaps, and unlock new opportunities for growth and operational excellence. Collaborate with various stakeholders throughout Wise, plan roadmaps with your team, and work through challenges to determine scope and realistic delivery. Be responsible for the technical health of APAC regional expansion organization through accountability, ownership and mentorship. Develop a strong technical opinion on the design of regional solutions and be involved in feedback for design and ADRs for the APAC and regional expansion.

A bit about you! You have solid Java 17 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework and microservice architecture with at least 10+ years of work experience You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and schema design You approach challenges with a strong product mindset, prioritise customer needs and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points You have led the design and development of complex engineering solutions and understand their broader impact on business outcomes You have excellent communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences. You provide technical guidance and mentorship to senior and experienced developers. You have web development experience with one of JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, or other You have experience in technical leadership - maintain technical excellence beyond your team, managing performance, giving feedback, and coaching engineers to thrive. You are familiar with Continuous Integration and deployment frameworks …but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything! Some extra skills and experiences that would be great: You have experience with financial systems including how payments, digital onboarding flows and payment schemes work. You have some Groovy experience. Worked with external and regulatory stakeholders.

What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise: We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by the impact you create and the complexity of problems you can help solve. As a Senior Staff/Staff software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the licence to: Lead large or multi-quarter (16+ engineering weeks) sized projects that have a meaningful impact on Wise product and customers that involve multiple teams/squads/tribes. Own the technical domain of your org with a view on how it should move forward. Take the opinions and work with other teams to execute. Propose ideas to improve and grow your team’s product. Embrace long-term ownership of ideas/opinions/projects while training other engineers to reduce single points of failure. Architect and design solutions that allow for iterative d