Senior Software Engineer - APAC Expansion

About the role

Wise is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its APAC Expansion team, which builds the expertise needed to launch Wise in markets where its products are unavailable or its presence is still limited. The role is based in Singapore and works with colleagues across the region, including expansion offices in South Korea and Japan and the Hyderabad hub. The salary is 148,800 - 185,000 SGD base per year plus RSUs.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical plan and delivery of projects, from understanding the customer problem through rollout and ongoing operation.
• Contribute significant engineering work to larger market launches and build onboarding and money movement services that meet local requirements and fit into Wise's global platform.
• Work with product managers and colleagues in compliance, banking and operations to clarify requirements, resolve dependencies and agree delivery milestones.
• Contribute to the team's roadmap, explain the customer impact of your work and use data and operational feedback to guide improvements.
• Design services that are easy to change as a market develops, and take responsibility for their reliability and security, addressing technical debt before it limits delivery.
• Help colleagues through design discussions, code reviews and mentoring, and share knowledge so others can maintain and develop what you build.
• Take part in the on-call rotation, help lead incident response and follow through on improvements.
• Explore where AI tools can help engineering work, review their output carefully and take responsibility for the code shipped.

Required profile

• Strong Java and Spring experience, having built and operated backend services in production; the team uses Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.
• Understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous communication, with practical decisions on API design, data modelling and failure handling.
• Experience with databases, including schema design and query optimisation, and writing tests that give the team confidence to release changes.
• Experience taking a project from an uncertain start to production, breaking work into increments and communicating risks early.
• Able to explain technical decisions to non-engineering colleagues and to mentor others.
• Ability to learn an unfamiliar domain and adapt as new information emerges.

Nice to have

• Experience with payments, financial systems or digital onboarding.
• Frontend experience with a framework such as React or Angular.