Engineering Lead, Embedded Finance for Enterprise

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

Job summary

Wise is seeking an Engineering Lead for the embedded finance team. This hands-on role involves designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services while mentoring engineers to grow their skills.

You will partner with a Product Manager to shape the team’s direction, drive technical decisions, and ensure a high-quality, scalable platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional Wise teams and partners like Google, Deel, Ramp, and Agoda to extend platform capabilities and deliver value

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• This is a hands-on role so you will be designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services.
• Mentoring and supporting a small team of engineers 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.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Java

Microservices

Product mindset

Relational databases

CI/CD

Communication

Job description

Wise is seeking an Engineering Lead for the embedded finance team. This hands-on role involves designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services while mentoring engineers to grow their skills.

You will partner with a Product Manager to shape the team’s direction, drive technical decisions, and ensure a high-quality, scalable platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional Wise teams and partners like Google, Deel, Ramp, and Agoda to extend platform capabilities and deliver value