Engineering Lead

Hackajob Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working setup

RSUs

Wise benefits

Job summary

Wise is hiring a senior backend leadership role in the Account Details Experience team to guide engineers, shape the roadmap, and evolve a platform powering money transfers for millions of customers worldwide.

You will work with Product to define the next two quarters, drive reliability, and contribute to architectural excellence. The role offers a hybrid UK-based setup with competitive rewards and RSUs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams and expanding products through ongoing growth.
• Strong product mindset and passion for user experience, with a focus on customer needs and data-driven decisions
• Great communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to lead and inspire engineers to build the right things in the right way
• Ability to deliver work across multiple teams and coordinate efforts across the organisation
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns, clean code, performance, and strong testing practices
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Experience following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery, and code reviews
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, and schema design is a plus
• Knowledge of Java and Spring Boot and experience with a messaging system such as Kafka is a plus
• Ability to participate in the on-call rotation for critical services, normally every 6-10 weeks

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of backend and web engineers
• Mentor and grow team members
• Work closely with Product to shape what we build next
• Help evolve a critical platform that powers receiving money for millions of customers around the world
• Build out the receive-to-alias experience and platform
• Build the roadmap for the next two quarters together with Product Management
• Join the 24/7 on-call rotation for critical services
• Help the team improve on-call processes and service reliability

Skills

Leadership

Product mindset

User experience

Communication

Mentoring

Cross-team coordination

Incremental milestones

Data-driven decisions

Continuous learning

On-call readiness

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Query optimisation

Schema design

Job description

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience leading teams and expanding products through ongoing growth
• Strong product mindset and passion for user experience, with a focus on customer needs and data-driven decisions
• Great communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to lead and inspire engineers to build the right things in the right way
• Ability to deliver work across multiple teams and coordinate efforts across the organisation
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns, clean code, performance, and strong testing practices
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Experience following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery, and code reviews
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, and schema design is a plus
• Knowledge of Java and Spring Boot and experience with a messaging system such as Kafka is a plus
• Ability to participate in the on-call rotation for critical services, normally every 6-10 weeks

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of backend and web engineers
• Mentor and grow team members
• Work closely with Product to shape what we build next
• Help evolve a critical platform that powers receiving money for millions of customers around the world
• Build out the receive-to-alias experience and platform
• Build the roadmap for the next two quarters together with Product Management
• Join the 24/7 on-call rotation for critical services
• Help the team improve on-call processes and service reliability

Technologies:

• Backend
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Network
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Web

More:

We are Wise, a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the worlds money with low fees, maximum ease, and full speed. Our mission is to make it easier for people and businesses to send, spend, and receive money internationally, and to create an entirely new network for the worlds money. This role sits in our Account Details Experience team within the Global Product tribe, where we help customers discover, obtain, and use local account details, as well as support our growing alias offering. We offer a starting salary of £105k-£135k, RSUs, Wise benefits, and a hybrid working setup. We are proud to build inclusive, diverse teams and to create an environment where every Wiser feels respected, empowered, and able to grow.