Product Engineer - Wise Platform (API Experience)

at  WISE

Company Description
Wise is on a mission to make money without borders, the new normal. We’ve got 13 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.
Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.
So, we’re building a new one.
Wise Platform helps banks, software companies, and large enterprises leverage Wise’s infrastructure to offer their customers world-class payment products through our API. We’re a cross-functional team across sales, account management, product, engineering, compliance, analytics, and many other functions. We’re based across the world - from New York to London, to Singapore, and beyond.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Product Engineer to join our growing API Experience team in London.
The API Experience team is responsible for some of the most critical systems at Wise, the public API gateway and authorization systems used by our own systems and our partners. Our goal is to increase efficiency during integration with our platform by setting the gold-standard for intuitive, consistent, enterprise-ready APIs, and to enable seamless integration of those APIs with developer-friendly tools.
Our challenges:
Operational Efficiency and Reliability: Enterprise customers require APIs that are exceptionally reliable and efficient. Banks and financial services handle large volumes of sensitive transactions that must be processed accurately and quickly.
Enhanced Developer and Partner Experience: A well-designed API reduces the complexity involved in integration, cutting down development time and costs.
Robust Security and Compliance: Financial grade security measures ensure that our enterprise partners can trust our platform. Compliance with industry regulations and standards also reduces the risk of legal issues.
Scalability and future-proofing: Enterprises like banks and fintech companies have rapidly growing user bases and evolving needs. Our APIs need to be designed to handle increasing loads without performance degradation, ensuring that companies can scale their operations smoothly.
Competitive Advantage: A high-quality API can be a significant competitive differentiator. It enables enterprises to extend their service offerings quickly and efficiently and respond to market changes faster, and integrate new technologies seamlessly.

As part of this role, you will:

• Learning about the challenges for our large API partnerships, and help solve them.
• Designing and building the next sandbox test environment.
• Balancing practical challenges in improving API design, implementation and best practices to non-centralised “empowered” engineering teams across the organisation.
• Working across the tech stack, supporting on frontend and infrastructure.
• Assist partners in the implementation phase, defining technical solutions and documenting requirements.
• Participate in feature definition, prioritisation, and long-term strategy planning with the team.
• Collaborate with Implementation Managers, Product Managers, and Engineers, you will be empowered to make product and project decisions.
• Improve integration experience through documentation, APIs, SDKs, code samples, and reference implementations.
• Design and develop new features for Wise services and expose them on the public API when needed.
• Travel to meet with our engineers in Tallinn as well as other travel opportunities.

Qualifications

Who you are:

• Experience in designing, building and maintaining public APIs for commercial purposes.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot systems.
• You have experience with RESTful APIs, API Design, Swagger, OpenAPI, OAuth2.
• A strong independent thinker who is also eager to accept feedback and collaborate.
• You understand the value of balancing customer centric thinking with technical know-how, and can bridge the gap between business and technical experts.
• You put the customer above technology, while finding ways to leverage technology to improve experience.

Nice to have:

• Passionate about international finance, foreign exchange, and payment systems
• Interest or experience in domain-driven development (DDD)
• Considers more than just customer impact; also the long term financial and architectural costs of the solutions we build
• Some experience with developing in a microservice architecture
• Can communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Additional Information

• Learning about the challenges for our large API partnerships, and help solve them.
• Designing and building the next sandbox test environment.
• Balancing practical challenges in improving API design, implementation and best practices to non-centralised “empowered” engineering teams across the organisation.
• Working across the tech stack, supporting on frontend and infrastructure.
• Assist partners in the implementation phase, defining technical solutions and documenting requirements.
• Participate in feature definition, prioritisation, and long-term strategy planning with the team.
• Collaborate with Implementation Managers, Product Managers, and Engineers, you will be empowered to make product and project decisions.
• Improve integration experience through documentation, APIs, SDKs, code samples, and reference implementations.
• Design and develop new features for Wise services and expose them on the public API when needed.
• Travel to meet with our engineers in Tallinn as well as other travel opportunities