Engineering Lead - Wise For Enterprise

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

Benefits offered by this job

Starting salary + RSUs

Wise Benefits

Job summary

Wise is seeking an Engineering Lead for its embedded finance team. The role is hands‑on and will mentor engineers while steering technical decisions and the long‑term roadmap in collaboration with a Product Manager.

You will design, build, and maintain the team’s services and work with Wise to extend our platform for partners. You’ll collaborate across Wise to deliver real impact, ensure reliability and scalability, and push best practices in engineering.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high‑performing engineering teams.
• Hands‑on Java development experience and strong system design skills.
• Deep understanding of microservices and event‑driven architectures.
• Product mindset with emphasis on customer impact and delivery.

Responsibilities

• This is a hands‑on role designing, developing, and maintaining the team’s services.
• Mentoring and supporting a small team of engineers in growth and development.
• Support technical decisions to build reliable, scalable products.
• Partner with a Product Manager to own and drive the team’s direction and plans.
• Collaborate across Wise to deliver impact and expand platform functionality for partners.
• Own the team’s services and promote best practices and quality.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Java

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

Product mindset

Relational databases

CI/CD

Cross-team communication

Job description

Job Description

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join the embedded finance team. Our mission is to build the world's best embedded finance platform for our partners. You’ll be working closely with multiple functions within our vertical from solutions engineering and business development to understand the pain points of some of the largest enterprises in the world. Together you’ll help partners such as Google, Deel, Ramp and Agoda, leverage Wise’s infrastructure to offer their customers world class embedded finance products through their own channels. This will help us transform the international payments experience for even more customers and have a significant impact on Wise’s mission.

This is a hands‑on engineering lead role that will support the engineers in their growth and driving technical decisions in building reliable, scalable products. You will be working closely with a product manager in developing a long term vision and roadmap for the team and their domain.

What will you be working on?

• 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.

Qualifications

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.

• 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.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 Edition.

• Wise Engineering

• Interview stages

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £105,000-£135,000 base + RSU's

• Wise Benefits

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