Engineering Lead, Core Account & Payments Platform

American Society of Civil Engineers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise in London is seeking an Engineering Lead to join the Account Management team. The role spans engineering, product and people, guiding the team, owning where systems go technically, and partnering with Product and Design to ship what customers rely on—staying close enough to the code to make sound architectural calls and unblock the team when it matters.

The position requires leading engineers, hands-on coding across backend, web and mobile, and ownership of the team's technical roadmap to

Qualifications

• 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 – Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Leadership

Communication

Product mindset

Tools

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

Job description

Wise in London is seeking an Engineering Lead to join the Account Management team. The role spans engineering, product and people, guiding the team, owning where systems go technically, and partnering with Product and Design to ship what customers rely on—staying close enough to the code to make sound architectural calls and unblock the team when it matters.

The position requires leading engineers, hands-on coding across backend, web and mobile, and ownership of the team's technical roadmap to