Software Engineer - Japanese Speaking

We're looking for a Software Engineer (Japanese Speaking) 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.

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.

We don't measure seniority by years of experience, but by your level of impact. As a Software Engineer at Wise, you would be given the licence to:

• Consistently seek out and deliver on product level vision, tasks and problems

• Actively assist in scoping and executing most impactful work for the team

• Embrace long-term ownership of projects while training others to reduce the bus factor or becoming a blocker

• Architect and design services/systems using design patterns that allow for iterative delivery and future scaling

• Communicate and collaborate across functions like product, analytics and design as required

• Proactively improve documentation of the team as well as propose and formulate high quality requests for comments

• Lead or significantly contribute to medium-sized projects, managing the development, deployment and post-deployment lifecycle

• Promote a positive culture of collaboration between all the team members and support onboarding new engineers into their teams

To get the best view of what we expect at all levels of our engineering team, you can take a look at our Engineering Career Map.

Qualifications

• Professional fluency in written and spoken Japanese (JLPT N2 or equivalent) is required to manage technical documentation and effectively liaise with Japanese-speaking business counterparts and stakeholders.

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

• You have excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• You have experience building highly available and fault tolerant systems.

• You are passionate about writing testable code and practising Test Driven Development.

• You are committed to best coding practices, including thorough code reviews and welcoming open feedback.

• You are enthusiastic about tackling complex product problems and proactive in engaging with and challenging the product roadmap.

• You provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers.

• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schema.

• You are familiar with the Continuous Delivery Approach mindset.

• …but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Some extra skills that would be great:

• You have solid Java 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.