Engineering Lead - Send for Partners

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

Job summary

Wise is seeking an Engineering Lead for the Send for Partners team to guide engineers, shape tech roadmaps, and deliver scalable payment infrastructure with partner banks and enterprises worldwide.

You will lead a hands-on engineering group, drive architectural decisions, ensure code quality, and collaborate with Product, Solutions Engineering, and Business Development to expand Wise's global payment network.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong grasp of scalable, distributed systems and microservices.
• Product-minded leader who prioritizes customer impact.
• Excellent communication across product, engineering and partnerships.
• Ability to move fast while delivering high-quality, compliant software.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach engineers, own hiring, mentoring and performance.
• Translate product strategy into technical roadmaps.
• Guide architecture and design decisions for global scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support integrations.
• Drive engineering excellence through reviews and best practices.
• Be hands-on when needed and maintain code health.
• Share learnings across the Wise Platform squad.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Product mindset

Communication

Architectural design

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Spring Boot

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Job description

• Compensation: GBP 105,000 - GBP 135,000 - yearly

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.

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).

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.