Job Description
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 choose 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—to make them faster, more intuitive, and more scalable.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Product Manager and Engineering Lead 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 the 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 the customer problem and designing solutions, to driving technical discovery, scoping, execution, and delivery.
- Own the health of systems and services in your team, ensuring they remain maintainable, scalable, and performant to support growth.
- Collaborate with other senior engineers and engineering leads across Onboarding squads and Wise to align your team’s work with the wider technical strategy.
- Coach and mentor engineers, supporting their technical growth and acting as a force multiplier.
Qualifications
- Experience building distributed, highly scalable systems and microservices architectures.
- A strong product and customer mindset with experience building customer‑facing products.
- Technical expertise in an OOP language such as Java or a similar modern technology stack.
- Enjoys mentoring and teaching others through own work—being a force multiplier.
- Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Thrives in a collaborative environment and has experience working effectively with cross‑functional peers such as designers, product managers, and analysts.
- Bonus: Experience working with Frontend and/or Mobile engineers and design functions.
Benefits
- Starting salary: £111,000 – £145,000 + RSUs.
- Wise Benefits (health, pension, wellness, etc.).
We are an equal‑opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without judgment or prejudice.
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