Engineering Lead - Embedded Finance

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Job summary

Wise is hiring an embedded finance Engineering Lead to build the world’s best platform for partners like Google, Deel, Ramp, and Agoda. You will own and drive the team’s direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate across solutions engineering, product, and business development.

Based in Leeds, UK, this hands-on role offers a base salary of £105,000–£135,000 per year plus RSUs and a diverse, inclusive international team. Grow your influence on critical systems used to move money globally.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and mentoring of engineering teams.
• Hands-on Java development with microservices experience.
• Strong relational database design and optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain team services.
• Mentor engineers and support growth.
• Drive technical decisions for a reliable, scalable product.
• Collaborate with Product Manager to align direction.
• Own team services and push high-quality standards.

Skills

Leadership

Java

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Database design

Code reviews

Communication

Tools

Embedded

Networking

Job description

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Java or similar stacks.
• Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Product mindset focused on customer impact, not just technical implementation.
• Strong experience designing and optimizing relational databases.
• Commitment to best coding practices, continuous delivery, and code reviews.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain our teams services.
• Mentor and support engineers in their growth and development.
• Support technical decisions to ensure we build a high-quality, reliable, and scalable product.
• Work closely with a Product Manager to own and drive the teams direction and product plans.
• Collaborate with teams across Wise to deliver impact and expand our platforms functionality for partners.
• Own the teams services and product.
• Push best practices and high-quality product standards.

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Support
• Java
• Product Manager
• microservices
• C++
• Network

More:

We are Wise, a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the worlds money. Our mission is to make international payments easier and cheaper for people and businesses everywhere. We are hiring for our embedded finance team to help build the worlds best embedded finance platform for partners such as Google, Deel, Ramp, and Agoda. This is a hands‑on engineering lead role with strong cross‑functional collaboration across solutions engineering, business development, and product. We offer a starting salary of £105,000-£135,000 base plus RSUs, and we are proud to build an inclusive, diverse, and international team where everyone feels respected, empowered, and able to grow.