Engineering Lead – Embedded Finance

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking an Engineering Lead to join their embedded finance vertical. The role involves hands-on leadership in designing, developing, and maintaining services while mentoring engineers. You will collaborate with a Product Manager to create a sustainable roadmap and drive the team's direction. The ideal candidate will thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment, pushing best practices to build high-quality, scalable products. This position is based in Greater London and offers an opportunity to make a real impact.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in a technical role.
• Ability to mentor and guide engineers on best practices.
• Strong technical background in product development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the team’s services.
• Mentor engineers and support their growth.
• Drive technical decisions for scalable products.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager on product direction.
• Own team’s services and ensure product quality.

Skills

Hands-on engineering experience

Mentoring skills

Experience in building scalable products

Collaboration with Product Managers

Job 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 life 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.

Job Description

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join the embedded finance vertical. Our mission is to build the world’s best embedded finance platform for our partners. We work closely with multiple functions within our vertical from solutions engineering and business development to understand the pain points of some of the largest enterprises in the world to build robust, scalable solutions for them. In the team you will be exposed to a wide range of challenges for our partners from being able to frictionlessly onboard their consumer and business customers to seamlessly moving money across borders.

This is a hands‑on engineering lead role that will support the engineers in their growth and driving technical decisions in building reliable, scalable products. You will be working closely with a product manager in developing a long term vision and roadmap for the team and their domain.

What will you be working on?

• This is a hands‑on role so you will be designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services
• Mentoring and supporting engineers in the team in their growth and development
• Support the team in technical decisions to make sure we build a high quality product that is reliable and scalable.
• Working closely with a Product Manager to own and drive the team’s direction and product plans
• Collaborate with teams across Wise to deliver real impact and expand the functionality we can offer to our partners on our platform.
• Ownership of the team’s services and product. Pushing best practices and high quality products

Additional Information

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.

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