Engineering Lead - Business Account Management (Java)

Wise; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking an Engineering Lead to join their Business Account Management team. This role involves guiding engineers and contributing to development efforts in a hands-on capacity. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in Java and a strong understanding of microservices architecture, along with a focus on customer impact. The position offers a starting salary ranging from £105,000 to £125,000 and various benefits.

Benefits

Starting salary: £105,000 - £125,000

RSUs

Inclusive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on Java experience.
• Understanding of microservices architecture.
• Product mindset focusing on customer impact.
• Experience designing relational databases.
• Advocating best coding practices.
• Ability to communicate clearly across teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide engineering team and contribute to coding.
• Support team's growth and deliver high-impact work.
• Make architecture and technical design decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Drive engineering excellence through mentoring.
• Contribute hands-on when necessary.
• Suggest improvements to the overall product.

Skills

Leading engineering teams

Java (8+)

Spring Framework

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

Relational databases

Coding best practices

Technical communication

Job description

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:

• We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join the Business Account Management team - the team behind the feature that empowers businesses to grant custom access and set spending limits for their team members, streamlining the management of their team and business expenses.

• Our mission is to power small and medium businesses to get more done - by giving them control of their team’s global money movements.

• This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll be guiding engineers, driving technical decision-making, collaborating with the team’s Product Manager to deliver reliable, scalable products that power the future of Wise for Small and Medium Businesses.

What will you be working on?

• This is a hands-on leadership role where you\'ll not only guide the team but also actively contribute to the codebase alongside your engineers.

• Support your team's growth and ensure they deliver high-impact work.

• Guide architecture and technical design decisions, ensuring we build systems that scale globally.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support bank integrations and expand our payment network.

• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring and adoption of best practices.

• Understand and contribute to team systems deeply enough to be hands-on when needed.

• Become knowledgeable about the broader Business product at Wise, and shaping how we could improve it as a whole.

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!

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong hands-on experience of Java (8+) and Spring Framework

• Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.

• Product mindset - you think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.

• Strong experience designing and optimising relational databases.

• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.

• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide

• DEI @ Wise

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• Wise Engineering career map

• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

• Wise Engineering – Wise Engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £105,000 - £125,000 + RSUs

• Wise Benefits

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