Senior Java Software Engineer II - Continuous Delivery (CD)

About the role

Nice to have

• Experience with Spinnaker or another large-scale CI/CD platform.
• Practical experience applying SRE principles, such as service-level objectives, error budgets, and automated incident prevention.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, or distributed tracing.
• Knowledge of cloud networking and security.
• Experience working in a regulated environment or with standards such as PCI DSS.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance testing, or load testing.
• Experience producing clear technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• What you’ll get
• Meaningful influence over a platform used by engineers across Wise.
• The opportunity to solve engineering problems at company-wide scale.
• Scope to contribute to open source software.
• Support to develop your technical leadership and help other teams improve how they deliver software.
• A flexible working environment and regular team and company events.
• Interested? Find out more:
• How we work – a practical guide
• The Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• Our Engineering career map
• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
• Wise Engineering on Medium
• What do we offer:
• Starting salary: £87,500-£111,000 + RSU #LI-AB3 #LI-Hybrid
• 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.
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
• 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 and what we offer.
• Starting salary: £87,500-£111,000 + RSU
• 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.
• Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
• Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
• As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
• For everyone, everywhere.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating production systems in Java.
• Experience designing distributed services and APIs, including testing, monitoring, and failure handling.
• Practical experience with a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience working with containers and an orchestration platform such as Kubernetes.
• A track record of automating operational work and building repeatable tooling.
• Experience owning shared or mission-critical infrastructure.
• The ability to turn complex requirements into understandable, maintainable solutions.
• A willingness to challenge existing approaches, share what you know, and learn from others
• Experience discovering complex problems across multiple teams and business functions
• You do not need previous Spinnaker experience. We’re more interested in strong engineering fundamentals and experience operating systems at scale.