Software Engineer (Full-stack) - Japanese Speaking

at  WISE

Company Description
Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 16 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.
We’re looking for a full-time Senior Full Stack Developer to join our growing team in Singapore. The role is a unique opportunity to build beautifully simple experiences that guide our customers through Wise, helping them to live, travel and work without borders.
Job Description

How you’ll be contributing to our Engineering team:

• Help us take Wise to the next level as we scale to impact 100’s of millions more customers. You’ll hide away all complexities under the hood of our product and build seamless experiences for our customers.
• Facilitate customer money movement by implementing direct integrations with central bank payment schemes across APAC.
• Develop innovative and scalable systems to enable complex product integrations with banking schemes and partners.
• Collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders, including banking, compliance, sanctions, and operations, to swiftly launch best-in-class products.
• Design and build systems that operate and scale to meet strict SLAs.
• Drive product improvement that impacts the Wise customer experience or empowers internal stakeholders (teams like Operations, Customer Support, Finance, etc.) to do their job effectively.
• Proactively identify and tackle technical debt becoming too big through planning work and aligning the team. Does this with careful evaluation of additional cost on development.

SOME EXTRA SKILLS THAT WOULD BE GREAT:

• You have solid Java 13 plus knowledge and experience with Spring framework
• You have experience with financial systems; bonus building and maintaining instant payment schemes.
• You have knowledge of PostgreSQL, advanced types and query features.
• You know your way around event driven architecture and have worked with messaging systems like Kafka, MQs etc.
  Additional Information

What the first six months in this role will look like:

• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• Understanding the Wise domain (Fintech) and team specific domain (the problems they’re solving form, intricacies of the domains) (50+ eng teams, all have different domain specific topics, they’re grouped in tribes e.g. Crime Fighting (Fraud, AML), but they’re very different)
• Understanding tech culture: how we build stuff, specific details on the tech stack (in our autonomous teams, teams do lots of different things and work on different stacks so need to understand details)
• You’ll have deployed / gone through the entire lifecycle of a microservice on your own
• Skillfully managed and added significant value in interactions with external stakeholders through proficient Japanese language abilities.
• Gone through two quarterly plannings and proposed a few ideas to take your product further

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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• You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
• Understanding the Wise domain (Fintech) and team specific domain (the problems they’re solving form, intricacies of the domains) (50+ eng teams, all have different domain specific topics, they’re grouped in tribes e.g. Crime Fighting (Fraud, AML), but they’re very different)
• Understanding tech culture: how we build stuff, specific details on the tech stack (in our autonomous teams, teams do lots of different things and work on different stacks so need to understand details)
• You’ll have deployed / gone through the entire lifecycle of a microservice on your own
• Skillfully managed and added significant value in interactions with external stakeholders through proficient Japanese language abilities.
• Gone through two quarterly plannings and proposed a few ideas to take your product furthe