Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the role:

Were looking for a Senior Staff Engineer (IC5) to join our Consumer Onboarding team. Our mission is to guide personal customers through setting up their Wise account and resolving their first international money needs in a way thats clear easy and delightful.

Onboarding is one of the most critical moments in a customers journey with Wise. Get it right and we build trust from day one. Because we sit at this key point in the customer journey we deal with high volumes of traffic and need to balance speed scale and reliability with a smooth user experience. This makes it an exciting space for engineers who want to solve complex problems at scale while having a direct visible impact on millions of customers.

How we work:

At Wise we believe in autonomy alignment and impact. As an IC5 engineer you wont just be executing tasks - you will be a visionary. You will own fundamental components and shared systems collaborate across multiple teams and define the long-term technical strategy for onboarding. We value open communication high technical standards and a genuine focus on solving real customer problems.

What will you be working on

In the near future you will be driving technical solutions for our biggest upcoming challenges:

• Scalable Onboarding Architecture: Designing systems that can support rapid growth in new markets and customer segments without compromising speed or reliability.
• Cross-Team Technical Alignment: Defining the technical contracts and integration points between Onboarding and other teams across Wise such as Marketing FinCrime and KYC.
• End-to-End Journey Ownership: Building and evolving robust scalable onboarding flows from account creation through to a customers first successful transfer.
• System Health & Performance: Leading initiatives to improve the maintainability latency and cost efficiency of our core onboarding systems.

Qualifications :

What do you need

• Deep Backend Expertise: Solid production-proven experience with Java (or similar OOP languages) and modern (micro)service architectures.
• Distributed Systems Knowledge: Strong experience building and scaling distributed high-throughput systems.
• Advanced Architecture Skills: Experience owning and designing fundamental components shared libraries or core infrastructure used across multiple teams.
• Technical Leadership: The ability to set a clear technical vision for your area of ownership and to mentor and grow engineers around you.
• Product & Customer Mindset: A strong track record of building customer-facing products with a good sense of how technical decisions affect the end user.
• Strong Communication: Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and to align stakeholders across teams.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working closely with Frontend and/or Mobile engineers and design teams.
• Background in high-growth consumer products or fintech.
• Experience leading company-wide technical initiatives or working groups

Additional Information :

Interested Find out more:

• How we work a practical guide

• DEI @ Wise

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• See what its like to work at Wise London!

• Our Engineering career map

• Wise Engineering do we offer: 

  • Starting salary: 145000 - 182000 RSUs

  • Wise Benefits

  Interested in more than one role

  If youre interested in multiple roles please apply for just onethe one youre most excited about. If you submit multiple applications requiring the same assessment well continue your recruitment journey using your first application and any duplicate applications will be automatically closed. This helps ensure a fair and consistent interview process. If another role feels like a better fit you can discuss this with your recruiter during the process

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

  Were 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.

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  Remote Work :

  No

  
  

  Employment Type :

  Full-time