Staff Backend Engineer - Consumer Onboarding

Wise 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.

We’re looking for an experienced Backend Engineer for our Consumer Onboarding team. This is a unique opportunity to have a massive impact, helping a growing number of customers around the world choosing Wise to move their money without borders.

The Consumer Onboarding team is dedicated to guiding personal customers through setting up their Wise account and resolving their first international money needs in a way that’s clear, easy, and delightful. You'll lead a team of talented engineers, collaborating daily with product managers, data analysts, and designers to continuously improve our onboarding flows and user journeys - making them faster, more intuitive, and more scalable.

Your mission:

As the one of most Senior Engineers in the Consumer Onboarding team, you will:

• Work closely with the Product Manager and Engineering Lead of your team to shape the roadmap, set the technical and product vision and ensure the team delivers on product goals in a robust and scalable way.
• Enable your team to succeed by ensuring they are well-resourced, can plan effectively, and are set up to commit to and deliver on their roadmap.
• Drive and deliver high impact projects end to end - from understanding customer problem, design solution alongside your team, driving technical discovery, scoping and execution to delivery
• Own the health of systems and services in your team, ensuring our system remain maintainable, scalable and performing to support our growth and scale
• Collaborate with other senior engineers and engineering lead across Onboarding squad and Wise to ensure your team’s work is aligned with the wider technical strategy.
• Coach and mentor engineers in your team supporting their technical growth and being a force multiplier

A bit about you:

• You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures
• You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.
• You possess strong technical expertise or background in OOP Languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks
• You enjoy mentoring and teaching others what you know though your own work - being a force multiplier
• You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.
• Bonus: You have experience working with other functions like Frontend and/or Mobile engineers and design functions

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work - a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it’s like to work at Wise London
• Our engineering career map

Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer: 

• Starting salary: £111,000 - £145,000 + RSUs
• Wise Benefits

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.