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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Cards API team

Hybrid in Singapore·Full-time·Added 2 days ago (last checked 16 Oct)

Wise

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Overview

Work mode: Hybrid, Singapore
Contract: Full-time
Experience: Senior level

Skills

The role

Our Cards API powers programmatic digital and physical card issuance for global fintech leaders such as Nubank, Tiger Brokers, and XP, alongside a full suite of management tools for spending controls and limits. Take a look at our Cards API documentation to understand what we’ve built.

We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join the fast-growing Platform Issuance team in Singapore. In this role, you’ll drive features that solve our partners’ challenges, including accelerating onboarding, optimizing liquidity, combating fraud, and delivering card analytics.

Operating in an autonomous, cross-functional team, you’ll work with PMs, Analysts, and fellow Engineers to decide what we build, not just how we build it.

Qualifications

Technical

Strong experience building microservices, event-driven architectures, relational databases, and well-designed APIs.
Ability to design and build resilient and scalable systems
Commitment to maintainable and well-tested software, predictable delivery, effective observability, and proactive technical debt management.

Product Mindset

Strong product mindset, connecting engineering decisions to customer outcomes.
Focused on the partner experience, ensuring APIs are simple to consume and well documented.
End-to-end ownership of impactful projects, from understanding the problem and shaping the solution through delivery, rollout, measurement, and future roadmap planning

Leadership & Collaboration

Accountable for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you and your team build.
Self-starting and collaborative approach, with the confidence to work independently, take initiative, own the technical roadmap and deliverables of your projects
Clear and adaptable communication, translating complex technical concepts for different audiences and collaborating effectively across functions to reach practical, well-balanced solutions that achieve your team's goals.

Nice-to-have

Experience with Java, Spring Boot and Kafka
Experience building a finance API
Experience in the card payments domain, either as an issuer or acquirer

Hiring process

4 steps4 interviews

Recruiter conversation
With a recruiter · Phone call
Phone conversation about your experience and motivations; agree your coding language here.
Backend pair programming
With an engineer · Video call · 60 min
Solve a technical problem collaboratively on HackerRank; first stage of the technical process. Any language, Java preferred.
Backend system design
With an engineer
Design round that follows pair programming.
Product round
With one or two cross-team stakeholders led by Product Managers, possibly designers or analysts · Video call · 45–60 min
Conversational walk-through of a project you are proud of: impact, trade-offs, data and cross-functional work.
Offer

Front-end engineers follow the same shape with front-end pair programming and system design rounds.
Interviews mostly take place over Zoom; some interviewers ask for in-person interviews.

About Wise

Industry: Fintech
Headquarters: London, UK
Website: wise.com

In their own words

About the company & team

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.

Additional information

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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