Engineering Lead - Send for Partners

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 106,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Wise Benefits

Job summary

Wise is seeking an Engineering Lead for the Send for Partners team in London to drive technical strategy and hands‑on leadership across engineering, product, and partnerships. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to scale our payment network with partner banks worldwide.

You’ll translate product roadmaps into robust technical designs, promote engineering excellence, and ensure delivery quality while maintaining long‑term health of systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high‑performing engineering teams and growing senior ICs.
• Technical leadership & system design expertise: scalable, distributed systems, event‑based architectures and microservices; high‑impact architectural decisions.
• Product mindset – consider customer impact, not just technical implementation.
• Leadership through empowerment with context, trust and clear direction.
• Advocates best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Experience with JVM platform (Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot).

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach engineers, own hiring, mentoring and performance to grow technical capability and delivery impact.
• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps that move KPIs.
• Guide architecture and technical design decisions, ensuring scalable systems.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to support bank integrations and expand our payment network.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring and best practices.
• Understand and contribute to team systems deeply enough to be hands‑on when needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve the Send product, balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term technical health.
• Have an overview of the broader Wise Platform squad, sharing learnings and shaping how we build software company‑wide.

Skills

Engineering leadership

System design

Distributed systems

Microservices

Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot

People management

Product mindset

Effective communication

Agile / CD

Decision making

Tools

Spring Boot

Java

Kotlin

JVM

Job description

Company 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 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.

Job Description

About the role:

We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join the Send for Partners team - the team that empowers banks and enterprises to leverage Wise's infrastructure to offer their customers world class payments products through their own channels.

You’ll be joining a team that sits at the intersection of product innovation and global partnerships, working closely with Solutions Engineering, Implementation Success and Business Development teams, building scalable and robust systems that power our global payment network with partner banks and enterprises across the world.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You’ll be guiding engineers, driving technical decision‑making, collaborating with the team's Product Manager to deliver reliable, scalable systems that power the future of Wise's payment platform.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and coach engineers, own hiring, mentoring and performance to grow technical capability and delivery impact.
• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps that move KPIs
• Guide architecture and technical design decisions, ensuring we build systems that scale globally.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to support bank integrations and expand our payment network.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring and adoption of best practices.
• Understand and contribute to team systems deeply enough to be hands‑on when needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve the Send product, balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term technical health.
• Have an overview of the broader Wise Platform squad, sharing learnings and shaping how we build software company‑wide.

Qualifications

What You’ll Need to Succeed

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!

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high‑performing engineering teams and growing senior ICs.
• Technical leadership & system design expertise: strong grasp of scalable, distributed systems, event‑based architectures and microservices; able to make high‑impact architectural decisions.
• Product mindset - you think about customer impact, not just technical implementation.
• Leadership through empowerment by providing context, trust and clear direction
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity - able to move quickly while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Experience with JVM platform (Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot).

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work - a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it's like to work at Wise London
• Our engineering career map

Wise Engineering - https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £106,000 - £135,000 + RSUs
• 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.