Staff Backend Engineer - Consumer Onboarding
Wise
Overview
As a Backend Engineer in Wise's Consumer Onboarding team, you will help shape onboarding experiences for personal customers and enable faster, more intuitive, scalable flows. You’ll lead a team of engineers, aligning with product and design to deliver high-impact improvements. You’ll own system health and collaborate across Wise to ensure architecture supports growth. This role offers the chance to influence how customers begin their Wise journey and resolve international money needs.
Pay / Benefits- Starting salary: 111,000 - 145,000 + RSUs
- Wise Benefits
- inclusive and diverse culture
- global opportunities
- Shape roadmap and product/technical vision with product manager and engineering lead
- Ensure the team is well-resourced, plans effectively, and delivers on roadmap
- Lead end-to-end high-impact projects from problem understanding to delivery
- Own system health, maintainability, scalability and performance
- Align team work with wider technical strategy through cross-team collaboration
- Coach and mentor engineers to support their technical growth and multiplier effect
- Experience building distributed, high-scale systems and microservices architectures
- Strong product and customer mindset for customer-facing products
- Proficiency in OOP languages (Java or similar) and modern tech stacks
- Enjoy mentoring others and acting as a force multiplier
- Excellent communicator able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Collaborative mindset with experience working with designers, product managers, and analysts
- Bonus: experience working with frontend and/or mobile engineers and design functions
- Mentoring and teaching others
- Clear communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Distributed systems
- Microservices
- Java or similar OOP languages
Reference: WJ-747_30182773