Senior Software Engineer II – FX Markets

Overview

In this role you shape Wise’s FX engineering stack by architecting a semi-automated hedge execution platform and real-time risk tooling. You will own the direction for 14+ production services, collaborating with traders, quants, and treasury teams to deliver scalable, automated hedging and pricing. You’ll build streaming pipelines and a high-throughput rate infrastructure to support multi-currency exposure, VaR, and hedge lifecycle processing. This is a chance to transform real-time financial infrastructure at scale and impact Wise’s FX operations.

Pay / Benefits

• Starting salary: 111,000-145,000
• RSU
• Wise Benefits
• International, diverse and inclusive teams

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction and architectural evolution of FX engineering stack across two teams
• Architect semi-automated hedge execution platform from exposure to programmatic trade execution
• Build real-time streaming pipelines with Apache Flink for exposure, tenor interpolation, and hedge events
• Evolve rate infrastructure for high throughput across FX forwards, corridors, and NDFs
• Develop production infrastructure for quant models (VaR, exposure, pricing, FRP)
• Own Kafka topology design and schema evolution across rate ingestion, risk calculation, and trade execution
• Drive the technical roadmap, mentor IC2/IC3 engineers, and lead incident response for Tier-1 services

Key requirements

• 8+ years in professional software engineering, ideally in financial systems or real-time data infra
• Deep expertise in Java (17+) with Spring Boot in high-throughput environments
• Extensive experience with Apache Kafka, topic design, schema evolution at scale
• Strong data engineering for real-time streaming (Flink, Kafka Streams, or equivalent)
• Proven ability to design/operate distributed systems processing millions of events per day
• End-to-end reliability ownership: SLOs, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery
• Experience leading technical design of multi-service architectures and influencing without authority
• Exceptional product mindset translating traders’ and risk managers’ needs into technical strategy
• Mentoring experience and ability to raise engineering standards across teams

• product mindset
• mentoring and leadership
• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Java 17+ and Spring Boot
• Apache Flink
• Apache Kafka

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