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Backend Product Engineer - Consumer Onboarding

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London, Greater London, England
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London, Greater London, England
Entry level
As a Backend Product Engineer, you will enhance financial crime controls and customer onboarding experiences in LATAM & MEA. You'll focus on developing scalable systems, improving KYC processes, and collaborating on integrations with external partners, while advocating best coding practices.
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Company 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.

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.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

About the role 

You’ll be joining the LATAM & MEA Onboarding and Controls team which is expanding Wise into many new countries in Latin America, Middle East & Africa. 

The team's primary objective is to develop and enhance financial crime controls while continuously improving the customer onboarding experience. 


What will you be working on?

  • Building & improving finCrime processes (screening, fraud etc) within the frameworks of specific regions

  • Building & improving KYC processes

  • You’ll scale the best in class products while ensuring the learnings you have in-market are shared back with our other global regions.

  • Enable the team to expand and enhance offerings in the UAE, Mexico, South Africa, and other key markets this year. 

Ultimately, Improving the onboarding experience for wise customers in the region. 

Qualifications

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

You will:

  • Have contributed in development of scalable and performing systems

  • Worked with microservices architecture, asynchronous message queues and SQL databases

  • Be familiar with Java/Kotlin, preferably with Spring Boot

  • Hands on experience building integrations with external partners

  • Have a strong product mindset and passion for user experience, prioritising work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points 

  • Advocate for best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

  • 💻 Wise tech stack (2025)

  • 👀 Working as regional engineer

  • 🚀 Wise Engineering

What do we offer: 

  • Starting salary: £45,000-£60,000 + RSU

  • Wise Benefit

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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Top Skills

Java
Kotlin

WISE London, England Office

London, United Kingdom

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