Engineering Lead, GetPaid Formats

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking an Engineering Lead to enhance payment solutions and improve existing services. The ideal candidate will guide engineering teams, prioritize user experience, and foster collaboration. A salary range of £85,000 - £105,000 plus benefits is offered, promoting an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

RSUs

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams and expanding products.
• Strong product mindset and user experience focus.
• Ability to articulate complex concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Developing invoice and payment link tools.
• Enabling products in more regions.
• Coordinating efforts across the organization.

Skills

Team leadership

Product mindset

Communication skills

Cross-team collaboration

Web application development

Java and Spring Boot

Job description

Overview

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.

About the role

Team you will be working with: GetPaid Formats

The GetPaid Formats team is dedicated to creating seamless and efficient solutions for customers to receive money directly into their Wise accounts. You will be working in products like our Payment Links, Invoice and QuickPay, as well as our in-network payment method: Pay With Wise. Our goal is to make receiving money internationally as cheap and convenient as possible.

We need an Engineering Lead to join our mission and help us build new ways of getting paid as well as improving the existing ones. As the Engineering Lead, you will work closely with product to set up the team direction, mentor and grow engineers, and build a high-performance team able to make Wise’s offering for getting paid one of the best in the industry.

How we work

The GetPaid Formats team is part of the Global Product tribe, dedicated to enabling customers to receive money seamlessly and efficiently into their Wise accounts. We build innovative payment products that serve both businesses and consumers, creating convenient and reliable ways to get paid internationally.

Responsibilities

• Invoice and payment link tools
• Developing new ways of getting paid such as subscriptions and in-person
• Enabling our products in more regions

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!

• Experience leading teams and expand products in order to navigate to ongoing expansion.
• A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, prioritising work with the customers in mind and making data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Leading and inspiring your team of engineers to build the right things, in the right way
• Ability to deliver work across multiple teams, coordinating your efforts across the organisation; cross-team collaboration
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns and a passion for writing clean, performant, well-tested code
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus
• Knowledge of Java and Spring Boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus
• Being part of the on-call rotation for our critical services and helping the team improve it, normally being on-call every 6-10 weeks

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• Our Engineering career map
• Automating UI model generation with KSP
• How we build 3D animations in mobile apps at Wise
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £85000 - £105000 Plus RSU’s
• Wise Benefits

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.

If you want to find out more about what it’s like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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