Senior Software Engineer II - Contacts Team - Java

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Posted 25 March 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£130,000 / year
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Java Distributed Systems Relational Databases Non-relational Databases RESTful APIs Test Driven Development Spring Boot

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Software Engineer II - Contacts Team - Java

Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Location: London

Salary: 105000 - 130000 GBP Annual

Company Description

[Employer hidden] is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, [Employer hidden] 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.

Job Description

The Contacts team is a core team at [Employer hidden], dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to, to the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery, all the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their counterparties. The team is integral to [Employer hidden]’s day-to-day operations — if our services go down, [Employer hidden] goes down.

How we work

We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with designers, the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Tallinn and London offices.

What will you be working on?

You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient’s user experience. You will help us scale-up and build a world class recipient management product.

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!

You get things done

You have experience working with large scale distributed systems

You have years of Java 8+ knowledge

You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas

You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points

You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem

You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs

You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback

You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development

Nice to have:

You have experience with Spring boot

You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

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 [Employer hidden] visit [Employer hidden].Jobs.

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