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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Wise London staff full-time

Salary

145,000 - 182,000

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Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

We're 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 that's clear, easy, and delightful.

As an IC5 engineer, you will own fundamental components and shared systems, collaborate across multiple teams, and define the long-term technical strategy for onboarding.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing systems that can support rapid growth in new markets and customer segments without compromising speed or reliability.
  • Defining the technical contracts and integration points between Onboarding and other teams across Wise.
  • Building and evolving robust, scalable onboarding flows from account creation through to a customer's first successful transfer.
  • Leading initiatives to improve the maintainability, latency, and cost efficiency of our core onboarding systems.

Qualifications:

  • 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.

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.

Benefits:

  • Starting salary: 145,000 - 182,000 + RSUs
  • Wise Benefits

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Frontend engineering
  • Mobile engineering
  • design teams
  • high-growth consumer products
  • fintech
  • company-wide technical initiatives

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000150221219-senior-staff-software-engineer

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