Staff Backend Engineer - Consumer Onboarding (London)
Job Description
hackajob is collaborating with Wise to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
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Company Description
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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
\nMin fees. Max ease. Full speed.
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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.
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As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
\nFor everyone, everywhere.
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More about our mission and what we offer.
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Job Description
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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.
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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.
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Your mission:
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As the one of most Senior Engineers in the Consumer Onboarding team, you will:
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- \nWork 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.\n
- \nEnable 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.\n
- \nDrive 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\n
- \nOwn the health of systems and services in your team, ensuring our system remain maintainable, scalable and performing to support our growth and scale\n
- \nCollaborate 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.\n
- \nCoach and mentor engineers in your team supporting their technical growth and being a force multiplier\n
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Qualifications
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A bit about you:
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- \nYou have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures\n
- \nYou have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products.\n
- \nYou possess strong technical expertise or background in OOP Languages (Java or similar) and modern technology stacks\n
- \nYou enjoy mentoring and teaching others what you know though your own work - being a force multiplier\n
- \nYou're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.\n
- \nYou thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, and analysts.\n
- \nBonus: You have experience working with other functions like Frontend and/or Mobile engineers and design functions\n
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Additional Information
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Interested? Find out more:
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- \nHow we work - a practical guide\n
- \nDEI @ Wise\n
- \nWise Tech Stack (2025 update)\n
- \nSee what it’s like to work at Wise London\n
- \nOur engineering career map\n
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Wise Engineering –
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What do we offer:
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- \nStarting salary: £111,000 - £145,000 + RSUs\n
- \nWise Benefits\n
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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.
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We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
\nInclusive 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.
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If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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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.
\n
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
\nInclusive 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.
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If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.