At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to enhance user onboarding for international money transfers.
- Company: Join Wise, a global leader in money management and transfer technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, RSUs, and a diverse, inclusive work culture.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for career growth and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on how people manage their money globally.
- Qualifications: Experience in scalable systems, strong communication, and mentoring skills.
The predicted salary is between 111000 - 145000 £ per year.
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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.
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:
- 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.
Qualifications
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.
Additional Information
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.
Staff Backend Engineer - Consumer Onboarding in Westminster employer: Wise
Wise is an exceptional employer that prioritises the well-being and professional growth of its employees. With a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration, team members are encouraged to develop their skills while contributing to meaningful resilience strategies on a global scale. Located in a vibrant city, Wise offers competitive benefits and unique opportunities for career advancement, making it an ideal place for those seeking a rewarding and impactful career.
