About this role
About the Role Wise’s Continuous Delivery platform team builds and maintains the shared delivery capabilities that power thousands of changes every day. You’ll primarily work with Java and Go, extending Spinnaker and building services and integrations around it. This is a hands-on role with scope to influence the platform’s technical direction, taking problems from discovery and design through implementation and operation in collaboration with Platform Engineering and the wider Wise team. What You'll Do
- Design, build, and operate capabilities within Wise’s Continuous Delivery platform.
- Evolve our use of the Open Source CD tool Spinnaker and contribute improvements upstream where appropriate.
- Build reliable guardrails to help engineers deploy changes safely with minimal manual effort.
- Improve the shared foundations of the platform in partnership with other Platform Engineering teams.
- Use telemetry and feedback to understand performance and where engineers experience friction.
- Work directly with engineering teams as they adopt new deployment patterns and platform capabilities.
- Contribute to technical design, code reviews, documentation, and the development of other engineers. What We're Looking For
- Strong experience building and operating production systems in Java.
- Experience designing distributed services and APIs, including testing, monitoring, and failure handling.
- Practical experience with a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience working with containers and an orchestration platform such as Kubernetes.
- A track record of automating operational work and building repeatable tooling.
- Experience owning shared or mission-critical infrastructure.
- Ability to turn complex requirements into understandable, maintainable solutions.
- A willingness to challenge existing approaches, share what you know, and learn from others. Nice to Have
- Experience with Spinnaker or another large-scale CI/CD platform.
- Practical experience applying SRE principles, such as service-level objectives, error budgets, and automated incident prevention.
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, or distributed tracing.
- Knowledge of cloud networking and security.
- Experience working in a regulated environment or with standards such as PCI DSS.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance testing, or load testing.
- Experience producing clear technical documentation and architecture diagrams. Compensation & Benefits
- Starting salary: £87,500- £111,000 GBP + RSUs
- Wise Benefits
- A flexible working environment and regular team and company events