Engineering Lead - Account Management

Limelight Health; Greater London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise London is seeking an Engineering Lead to join the Account Management team, owning the Current Account and Everyday banking experiences.

You will lead engineers across backend, web and mobile, shaping the technical roadmap, ensuring reliability, and driving features end-to-end while collaborating with PM and Design to determine what to build and why. The role blends hands-on coding with leadership.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering background with focus on reliability and scale.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
• Experience leading engineers and delivering cross-functional features.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team's engineers and own shipping roadmap.
• Write code, review designs and PRs, and drive features across backend, web and mobile.
• Own the team's technical roadmap and make architectural decisions.
• Partner with PM and Design, and provide sharp feedback on what to build and why.
• Collaborate across boundaries with related teams to align on account-related features.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Microservices

JVM (Java/Kotlin)

Spring Boot

Tools

Spring Boot

Job description

hackajob is collaborating with Wise to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

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.

For everyone, everywhere.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

Job Description

More about our mission and what we offer.

We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join the Account Management team. This team is building the Current Account and Everyday banking experience products, which sit at the heart of Wise. The team owns how customers hold, organise and move their money day to day - their main account and Jars, the home screen they open, the flows they use to move, convert and add funds - and the ledger and money-movement systems underneath that the rest of the company builds on top of. Our mission is to make Wise the account customers reach for every day, and ultimately the last account they'll need to open.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the team's engineers - own what they ship and their well-being, and build a clear view of how to grow each of them.
• Stay hands-on: write code, review designs and PRs, and drive whole features across backend, web and mobile, coordinating delivery across all three.
• Own the team's technical roadmap. Decide how the systems evolve, keep reliability and tech-debt risk in check, and make the architectural calls that matter.
• Partner with your PM and Design, and give sharp feedback on what's worth building and why.
• Work across boundaries with the teams we build alongside: Account Sharing on joint accounts, Send on how money moves in and out, Wise Platform on products they build on top of account.

What you’ll need to succeed.

We don’t expect candidates to tick all the boxes. If you have most of the below and want to grow into the rest, we'd love to hear from you.

Technical

• Strong backend engineering background, close to the code to guide senior engineers through hard problems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures and microservices, and comfort making high-impact architectural decisions.
• Track record of owning the reliability, scalability and correctness of critical systems at scale.
• Comfortable in a JVM codebase, or confident you'll get there fast - we're on Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot.

Leadership

• Experience leading a team of engineers and owning what they deliver.
• Leadership through trust: you give people context and direction and let them own their work.
• A clear communicator who can hold a technical argument with engineers and explain it plainly to everyone else.

Product

• A product engineer’s mindset - you measure your work by customer and business impact.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity: you move quickly without dropping quality.

Nice to have

• You use AI to build faster, and you're curious where it's heading.
• You've worked in fintech, payments or banking.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it's like to work at Wise London!
• Our Engineering career map
• Wise Engineering - https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer: £105K - £135K GBP + RSUs

• Starting salary:
• Wise Benefits

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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