Staff Backend Engineer - Consumer Onboarding
Core
Lead the Consumer Onboarding team to build scalable, high-performance systems that guide personal customers through setting up Wise accounts and resolving their first international money needs.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Team Lead)
Builds
Consumer onboarding flows, account setup systems, and international payment infrastructure for personal customers.
Domain
Fintech / Cross-border payments
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, microservices design, OOP (Java), technical roadmap planning, team mentorship, system health monitoring, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Frontend/Mobile engineering experience, design function collaboration
Technologies
Java, microservices
Responsibilities
Shape technical and product vision with Product Managers and Engineering Leads, drive end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects, ensure system maintainability and scalability, coach and mentor engineers, collaborate on wider technical strategy
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities