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Senior Backend Engineer - Payin Platform

London, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-02 → 2026-10-07

Core

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for Wise's Direct Debit and Payin platform, enabling automated funding and business collections.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Payments)

Builds

Direct Debit API, payment orchestration system, and event-driven architectures for automated payments. (via careerplan.io/jobs/744000153226601-senior-backend-engineer-payin-platform-at-wise)

Domain

Fintech / Payments

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Backend development, RESTful API design, SQL/PostgreSQL optimization, Apache Kafka, cloud infrastructure (AWS), payment orchestration, automated testing, code reviews, incident response.

Preferred skills

Experience with high-volume transactional data, financial regulations compliance, performance optimization.

Technologies

AWS, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, REST APIs.

Responsibilities

Design and implement database schemas for high-volume data, build event-driven architectures for asynchronous processing, develop payment orchestration systems, write automated tests, conduct code reviews, participate in on-call rotations, resolve scalability issues, ensure security best practices.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC