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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Wise
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Oop Languages, Front End Software Development, Microservices
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-backend-engineer-consumer-onboarding-wise-9017675

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

As the one of most Senior Engineers in the Consumer Onboarding team, you will:

 * 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


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