Software Engineer - APAC Expansion (Korea)

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Software Engineer - APAC Expansion (Korea) Full-time Compensation: GBP 0 - GBP 0 - yearlyCompany DescriptionWise 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.Job DescriptionWise is opening a new office in Seoul in order to support our Asia & Pacific teams and regional plans, particularly in South Korea. 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: Develop Wise Products from the heart of South Korea, bring your expertise to challenge South Korea’s banking status quo and build the best financial experience to Korean customersElevate our mission by scaling across the APAC region, reaching hundreds of millions more customers while shielding them from technical complexity through beautifully simple, high-impact product experiencesWorking on the core flow of Wise, you'll ensure our customers get the best experience even when things don’t go as planned by building self service solutions, automating the resolution and building efficient tooling for our Operations team.Build robust financial infrastructure to provide the same rapid and simple experience found in local transfers for international transactionsCreate clear and helpful interfaces, whilst maintaining consistency, maintainability, performance and an understanding of what problems our customers might encounter along the wayTake initiative to identify and solve important problems. Coordinates with others on cross-cutting technical issuesDrive product improvement that impacts the Wise customer experience or empowers internal stakeholders (teams like Operations, Customer Support, Finance, etc.) to do their job effectivelyProactively identify and tackle technical debt becoming too big through planning work and aligning the team. Does this with careful evaluation of additional cost on developmentQualificationsWhat does it take?:  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-pointsYou have great communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience in English and Korean. You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven DevelopmentYou believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedbackYou have solid Java 21 plus knowledge and experience with Spring frameworkYou have front end experience with one of JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, or otherYou have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemaYou are familiar with 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 experience with financial systemsYou have knowledge of PostgreSQL, advanced types and query featuresYou know your way around event driven architectureYou have some Groovy experiencePerhaps you have experience with machine learning or other data driven development experience What you can expect as an Engineer at Wise: 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 problemsActively assist in scoping and executing...